Being Israeli : the dynamics of multiple citizenship / Gershon Shafir, Yoav Peled.

The authors speculate on the relationship between identity and citizenship in Israeli society and explore the differential rights accorded different social strata. They conclude that, despite ongoing tensions, globalization and economic liberalization have transformed Israel from a frontier society...

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Main Author: Shafir, Gershon
Other Authors: Peled, Yoav
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge Middle East studies ; 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • The virtues of Ashkenazi pioneering
  • Mizrachim and women: between quality and quantity
  • The frontier within: Palestinians as third-class citizens
  • The wages of legitimation: Zionist and non-Zionist Orthodox Jews
  • New day on the frontier
  • The frontier erupts: the intifadas
  • Agents of political change
  • Economic liberalization and peacemaking
  • The "constitutional revolution"
  • Shrinking social rights
  • Emergent citizens groups? Immigrants from the FSU and Ethiopia and overseas labor migrants.