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During the first two decades of Israel's history, a strip of territory all along the border was placed under military administration & a special regime, both for military security purposes & better to control the Palestinian population living there. However, though the Israeli government gave its Palestinian residents citizenship, as a "Jewish state" it could not help but consider them a "dangerous population" that had to be watched. This "ethnic" surveillance, hardly admitted for what it was, was mainly exercised under the guise of territorial measures: ie, specific regulations for these border zones, some of which dated from the time of British rule & which enabled Israel to promote a "judaisation" of these territories & at the same time to closely watch the Palestinian population still living there. The ambiguity of this inclusion/exclusion policy has given rise to multiple debates in the Knesset. The outcome is also ambiguous. Adapted from the source document.

This article introduces the distinction between 'routine' and 'emergency' times in human rights struggles. Based on ethnography of Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating on migrant workers' rights, we show how this emergent distinction manifests in the social dynamics of human rights struggles. Thus, whereas in their daily work, human rights NGOs follow the logic of the bureaucratic system in a slow, Sisyphean manner, in times of perceived 'emergency', opportunities open up for a faster pace of action and for breaking routine repertoires. In bringing socio-temporal configurations to bear on human rights struggles, we show how activists' experiencing of events as 'emergency' was a catalyst for the transformation of social mobilization, positing that both NGOs and social movements, however distinct from each other, are in fact related to different 'times' of human rights struggles.

This article examines the intersection of state policies, private brokers and local employers that fuels trafficking practices and forced labor of legal labor migrants. Focusing on the Israeli case of labor migration, we offer a meso-level institutional analysis of the modes by which private brokers's actions combine with state regulations and policies in creating labor trafficking. More specifically, we stress the active role official labor migration schemes play in the growth of a private brokerage sector driven by profit considerations and in the privatization of state capacities regarding migration control and management. Our analysis demonstrates how systemic features – and not necessarily or solely criminal activities – catalyze trafficking practices taking place first and foremost within the realm of legal migration.