Value‐Oriented Parameters in Migration Policies in the 1990s: The Israeli Experience

Horowitz, Tamar

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2435.1996.tb00543.x

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“…For proponents of Israel as a religious state, the acceptance of large numbers of secular Russian Jews could be seen as an “objective threat,” which did upset the equilibrium that prevailed between religious and secular forces in Israel. Survey studies showed that only 3% of Russian immigrants voted for extreme religious parties compared with over 15% among the general Israeli population (Horowitz, 1996).…”

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“…Russian immigrants were granted the same social and citizenship rights as members of the Israeli host majority. However, regardless of the state assimilationist policy, the demographic strength of Russian Jews has made it possible for this educated and secular community to maintain and develop its own Russian language and culture within Israel (Horowitz, 1996).…”

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Acculturation orientations towards Israeli Arabs and Jewish immigrants in Israel

2004

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The State of Israel can be characterized as having two integration policies: an assimilationist one towards “valued” Jewish immigrants and a somewhat ethnist one towards its “devalued” national minority, namely Israeli Arabs. Using the Host Community Acculturation Scale (HCAS), this study explored Jewish undergraduate (N = 153) acculturation orientations towards “valued” Jewish immigrants of Russian and Ethiopian background and towards “devalued” Israeli Arabs. Results showed that Jewish undergraduates mainly endorsed the integrationism and individualism acculturation orientations towards Jewish immigrants. However, they were more segregationist and exclusionist towards Israeli Arabs than towards Jewish immigrants of Russian and Ethiopian background. Assimilation was weakly endorsed towards both Jewish immigrants and Israeli Arabs. Based on an extensive questionnaire, multiple regression analyses showed that each acculturation orientation had a distinct psychological profile. The integrationism and individualism orientations were endorsed by undergraduates who were tolerant towards ethnic diversity, felt secure personally, culturally, and militarily, and did not endorse the social dominance orientation (SDO). In addition to not feeling threatened by the presence of Israeli Arabs, integrationists and individualists were identified as secular Israelis and Labour Party sympathizers rather than as religious Jews. In contrast, the assimilationism, segregationism, and exclusionism orientations were endorsed by undergraduates who felt insecure personally, religiously, culturally, and militarily, who tended to be less tolerant towards ethnic diversity, and who were more prone to endorse the SDO. In addition to feeling threatened by Israeli Arabs, they avoided close relations with Russian and Ethiopian immigrants. Segregationists and exclusionists were identified mainly as Jewish nationals. Orthodox Jews, and as Likud Party sympathizers. Exclusionists were distinctive in also feeling threatened by the presence Jewish immigrants of Russian and Ethiopian background. While taking into consideration the context of intergroup relations in Israel, results are discussed using the Interactive Acculturation Model (Bourhis, Moïse, Perreault, & Senecal, 1997).

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“…The data generally support these hypotheses. The Israeli policy of immigration has always aimed at assimilating Jewish immigrants (Horowitz, 1996). However, immigrant students of Russian and Ethiopian origin seemed to be well aware of the acculturation aims of their respective groups.…”

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“…The background of Russian immigrants (Horowitz, 1996;Lane, 1992) may account for their greater concern about fair treatment by the university. The perceived attitudes of the majority were not systematically linked to social adjustment, although Russian immigrants tended to associate it as well with treatment by the university.…”

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Personal and Group Acculturation Attitudes and Adjustment: Russian and Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel

Kurman

Eshel

Zehavi

2005

J Appl Social Pyschol

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The adjustment of 2 groups of immigrant students in an Israeli university was investigated as a function of their acculturation attitudes and the perceived attitude of the host society. Acculturation attitudes were divided into group attitudes representing generalized aims of the group, and personal attitudes pertaining to individual aims of acculturation that deviate from these group aims. We argued that a preference for acculturation attitudes that contradicted the group consensus would be detrimental to immigrants’ psychological adjustment, whereas normative attitudes would not adversely affect this adjustment. It was hypothesized further that personal and group attitudes would not have different effects on social adjustment and that both facets of adjustment would be affected by the attitude of the majority. The data generally supported the research hypotheses.

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“…According to this ideology, immigrants are put under great pressure to assimilate into the Israeli society (e.g., Shamai & Ilatov, 2001). They are expected to devote maximum efforts to studying Hebrew and to affiliate smoothly and fully with native Israelis at work and school (Horowitz, 1996). This pressure is indeed perceived by FSU immigrants (Roccas, Horenczyk, & Schwartz, 2000), and, as difficult as it is to handle by itself (e.g., Berry, 2007), it may induce children to assume a more active role in aiding the adaptation of their families.…”

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Parent–child role reversal and psychological adjustment among immigrant youth in Israel.

Oznobishin¹,

Kurman²

2009

Journal of Family Psychology

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Parent-child role reversal and its relation to psychological adjustment was investigated in Israel among immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Study 1 examined immigrant and Israeli-born college students (n = 184), and Study 2 examined adolescents (n = 180) by means of self-report questionnaires. Two major factors of role reversal emerged: child dominance and family support. The results of both studies clearly showed that immigrants assume more dominant roles and parental responsibilities in their families and receive less support from their parents than their Israeli-born peers. Role reversal dimensions had differential relations with adjustment. Child dominance was mostly not related to adjustment, except for a positive correlation with psychological distress among immigrants. Familial support appeared to be the most important factor related to better adjustment among all studied groups, immigrants included. It is interesting that language brokering (i.e., translating for parents), although associated with child dominance, was negatively related to self-perceptions. Possible explanations within the Israeli context are suggested for negative language brokering correlates, with support from the interviews conducted among the immigrants.

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Value‐Oriented Parameters in Migration Policies in the 1990s: The Israeli Experience

Cited by 16 publications

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Acculturation orientations towards Israeli Arabs and Jewish immigrants in Israel

Acculturation orientations towards Israeli Arabs and Jewish immigrants in Israel

Personal and Group Acculturation Attitudes and Adjustment: Russian and Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel

Parent–child role reversal and psychological adjustment among immigrant youth in Israel.

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