Fighting for dignity: migrant lives at Israel's margins
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In: Contemporary ethnography
In: SSM - Mental health, Band 2, S. 100045
ISSN: 2666-5603
In: SSM - Mental health, Band 2, S. 100128
ISSN: 2666-5603
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 70-86
ISSN: 1468-2435
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 70-86
ISSN: 1468-2435
AbstractLocalized debates about who unauthorized migrants are and what they do, or do not, deserve unfold in a culturally specific register that is deeply charged with emotion and moral valuation. Structuring such debates are vernacular discursive frames that emerge from, and reflect, a common "local moral economy." Taking Israel as case study, this article examines six elements of the country's local moral economy – biopolitical logic, historical memory, political emotion, popularized religion, an ideology of "fruitful multiplication," and hasbara ("public diplomacy"/propaganda) – and explores their impact on public debates about unauthorized and irregular forms of migration. Here, as elsewhere, conventionalized distinctions that frame much migration scholarship – e.g. "economic" vs. "political" migrants, "migrant workers" vs. "refugees," even the terms "authorized" and "unauthorized" themselves – bear but limited salience. Migration researchers who hope to influence local policy debates must recognize the weight and influence of local moral economies, and the chasms that divide vernacular from conventionalized frames. Achieving this sort of nuanced understanding is, at root, an ethnographic challenge.
In: Journal of human rights, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 150-159
ISSN: 1475-4843
In: Review of Middle East studies, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 111-113
ISSN: 2329-3225
In: Journal of human rights, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 150-159
ISSN: 1475-4835
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 676-677
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Cultures & conflits: sociologie politique de l'international, Heft 71, S. 93-112
ISSN: 1777-5345
In: Cultures et Conflits, Heft 71, S. 93-112
In: Cultures et Conflits, Heft 71, S. 93-112
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 2-7
ISSN: 1468-2435
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 8-38
ISSN: 1468-2435
ABSTRACTGiven the vast scope and magnitude of the phenomenon of so‐called "illegal" migration in the present historical moment, this article contends that phenomenologically engaged ethnography has a crucial role to play in sensitizing not only anthropologists, but also policymakers, politicians, and broader publics to the complicated, often anxiety‐ridden and frightening realities associated with "the condition of migrant illegality," both of specific host society settings and comparatively across the globe. In theoretical terms, the article constitutes a preliminary attempt to link pressing questions in the fields of legal anthropology and anthropology of transnational migration, on one hand, with recent work by phenomenologically oriented scholars interested in the anthropology of experience, on the other. The article calls upon ethnographers of undocumented transnational migration to bridge these areas of scholarship by applying what can helpfully be characterized as a "critical phenomenological" approach to the study of migrant "illegality" (Willen, 2006; see also Desjarlais, 2003). This critical phenomenological approach involves a three‐dimensional model of illegality: first, as a form of juridical status; second, as a sociopolitical condition; and third, as a mode of being‐in‐the‐world. In developing this model, the article draws upon 26 non‐consecutive months of ethnographic field research conducted within the communities of undocumented West African (Nigerian and Ghanaian) and Filipino migrants in Tel Aviv, Israel, between 2000 and 2004. During the first part of this period, "illegal" migrants in Israel were generally treated as benign, excluded "Others." Beginning in mid‐2002, however, a resource‐intensive, government‐sponsored campaign of mass arrest and deportation reconfigured the condition of migrant "illegality" in Israel and, in effect, transformed these benign "Others" into wanted criminals. By analyzing this transformation the article highlights the profound significance of examining not only the judicial and sociopolitical dimensions of what it means to be "illegal" but also its impact on migrants' modes of being‐in‐the‐world.
In: Journal of Middle East women's studies: JMEWS ; the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 55-88
ISSN: 1558-9579