Latino Migrants in the Jewish State: Undocumented Lives in Israel PDF
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Anthropology • Middle eAst Kalir “a sophisticated study the 1990s, thousands of non-Jewish La- Int inos arrived in Israel as undocumented of Latino immigration immigrants. Drawing on research in South in israel . . . [that] America and Israel, Barak Kalir follows these workers from their decision to migrate to their makes a contribution experiences fnding work, establishing social not just to the study clubs and evangelical Christian churches, and putting down roots in Israeli society. While the of contemporary is- State of Israel formally rejected the presence of rael, but to the study non-Jewish migrants, Latinos found themselves capable of prolonged settlement and de facto cul- of migrant labor, tural assimilation to Israeli society. In everyday citizenship, and mi- interactions with Israeli citizens, Latinos expe- rienced openness and approving acceptance. In gration in the con- 2005, afer a large-scale deportation campaign temporary world.” that drew criticism from many quarters, Israel —Arif Dirlik, Chinese made the unprecedented decision to legalize the University of hong kong status of some undocumented migrant families on the basis of their children’s cultural asimila- Latino tion and identifcation with the State. By doing “Lucid and persuasive so, Kalir maintains, Israel was impelled to rec- ognize the importance of practical belonging for . . . a fascinating case Migrants understanding citizenship and national identity. study of the tensions BArAK KALIr is Asistant Profesor of An- in the and strains of a state thropology at the University of Amsterdam and system seeking to coordinator of the research program Illegal but Licit: Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities define citizenship.” in Asia. Jewish —hAstings DonnAn, QUeen’s University BelfAst Cover illustration from Identity Document, photo project with children of migrant workers, 2006. Photograph courtesy Active Vision. tate UndocUMented INDIANA S LiveS in iSraeL University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis www.iupress.indiana.edu 1-80-842-6796 INDIANA Barak Kalir Latino Migrants MECH.indd 1 5/20/10 9:45:53 AM Latino Migrantsin the Jewish State Latino Migrants in the Jewish State Latino Migrants in the Jewish tate undocumented Slives in israel Barak Kalir Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Manufactured in the United States of America Indiana University Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication 601 North Morton Street Data Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA Kalir, Barak. Latino migrants in the Jewish state : undocumented www.iupress.indiana.edu lives in Israel / Barak Kalir. p. cm. Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Includes bibliographical references and index. Fax orders 812-855-7931 ISBN 978-0-253-35507-2 (cloth : alk. paper) Orders by e-mail For Margo, Tim, and Daan ™ Living with the other, with the foreigner, confronts us with the possibility or not of being an other. It is not simply—humanistically—a matter of our being able to accept the other, but of being in his place, and this means to imagine and make oneself other for oneself. [. . .] Being alienated from myself, as painful as that may be, provides me with that exquisite distance within which perverse pleasure begins, as well as the possibility of my imagining and thinking, the impetus of my culture. —julia kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: Undocumented Belonging 1 PART ONE 2 Unsettling Setting: A Jewish State Dependent on Non-Jewish Labor 27 3 Destiny and Destination: Latinos Deciding to Leave for Israel 57 PART TWO 4 Shifting Strategies: From the Accumulation of Money toward the Accumulation of Belonging 89 5 Divisive Dynamics: The Absence of Political Community and the Di√erentiations of the Recreational Scene 126 6 The Religious Forms of Undocumented Lives: Latino Evangelical Churches 156 PART THREE 7 Israeli Resolution, Latino Disillusion: From Massive Deportation to Symbolic Legalization 203 8 Conclusion: A New Assimilation? 228 Notes 237 Bibliography 243 Index 257
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