6 results on '"Ethnicity--Israel"'
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2. Genomic Citizenship : The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East
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Ian McGonigle and Ian McGonigle
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- Citizenship--Israel, Citizenship--Qatar, Nationalism--Israel, Nationalism--Qatar, Biobanks--Political aspects--Israel, Biobanks--Political aspects--Qatar, Human genetics--Political aspects--Israel, Human genetics--Political aspects--Qatar, Ethnicity--Israel, Ethnicity--Qatar, Ethnology--Israel, Ethnology--Qatar
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An anthropological study based on ethnographic work in Israel and Qatar explores the relationship between science, particularly genetics, and national identity.Based on ethnographic work in Israel and Qatar, two small Middle Eastern ethnonations with significant biomedical resources, Genomic Citizenship explores the relationship between science and identity. Ian McGonigle, originally trained as a biochemist, draws on anthropological theory, STS, intellectual history, critical theory, Middle Eastern studies, cultural studies, and critical legal studies. He connects biomedical research on ethnic populations to the political, economic, legal, and historical context of the state; to global trends in genetic medicine; and to the politics of identity in the context of global biomedical research. Genomic Citizenship is more an anthropology of scientific objects than an anthropology of scientists or an ethnography of the laboratory. McGonigle bases his untraditional project on traditional anthropological methods, including participant observation. Some of the most persuasive data in the book are from public records, legal and historical sources, published scientific papers, institutional reports, websites, and brochures. McGonigle discusses biological understandings of Jewishness, especially in relation to the intellectual history of Zionism and Jewish political thought, and considers the possibility of a novel application of genetics in assigning Israeli citizenship. He also describes developments in genetic medicine in Qatar and analyzes the Qatari Biobank in the context of Qatari nationalism and state-building projects. Considering possible consequences of findings on the diverse origins of the Qatari population for tribal identities, he argues that the nation cannot be defined as either a purely natural or biological entity. Rather, it is reified, reinscribed, and refracted through genomic research and discourse.
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- 2021
3. Immigrants on the Threshold
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Judith T. Shuval and Judith T. Shuval
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- Social integration--Israel, Assimilation (Sociology)--Israel, Ethnicity--Israel, Immigrants--Israel
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This first large-scale empirical work on the adjustment problems of immigrants in Israel is now updated with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Alex Weingrod. The extraordinary phenomenon of worldwide immigration to Israel has made this searching study of people in transit possible.'Immigrants on the Threshold'reports on the attitudes and behaviors of almost 2,000 people from twenty countries during their first year in Israel during the early years of mass migration. It is of particular interest as the phenomenon of integration becomes an issue for concern in many other parts of the world.'Immigrants on the Threshold'by Judith Shuval presents a theoretical framework closely intermeshed with rich empirical findings. No other work in this field approaches this study in either depth of theoretical analysis or in design and execution of data collection performed by conducting in-depth interviews and then using statistical analysis to quantify results in exacting and objective detail. It attempts to answer a number of critical questions: What factors in the immigrants'past and present condition their responses to the strain of transit? What is the role of commitment to the goal of the new society into which they must incorporate? What is the role of different social and economic backgrounds in determining patterns of acculturation? What factors affect the aspirations and mobility patterns of immigrants? The answers to these questions - the hypotheses formulated and the conclusions reached in'Immigrants on the Threshold'- contribute substantially to the fields of both sociology and social psychology. These answers, and the methods used to reach them, should be of interest to anyone in these fields and the field of applied social research, as well as those interested in Israel and questions of immigrant integration.
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- 2017
4. Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel
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Fran Markowitz, Stephen Sharot, Moshe Shokeid, Fran Markowitz, Stephen Sharot, and Moshe Shokeid
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- Ethnicity--Israel, Minorities--Israel
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Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrod's groundbreaking ethnographic research of Israel's underpopulated south complicated the dominant social science discourse and government policy of the day by focusing on the ironies inherent in the project of Israeli nation building and on the process of migration prompted by social change. Drawing from Weingrod's perspective, this collection considers the gaps, ruptures, and juxtapositions in Israeli society and the cultural categories undergirding and subverting these divisions. Organized into four parts, the volume examines our understanding of Israel as a place of difference, the disruptions and integrations of diaspora, the various permutations of Judaism, and the role of symbol in the national landscape and in Middle Eastern studies considered from a comparative perspective. These essays illuminate the key issues pervading, motivating, and frustrating Israel's complex ethnoscape.
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- 2015
5. Der Irak in Israel : Vom zionistischen Staat zur transkulturellen Gesellschaft
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Stefan Siebers and Stefan Siebers
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- Multiculturalism--Israel, National characteristics, Israeli, Ethnicity--Israel
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Anhand der Bücher von Sami Michael und Eli Amir untersucht Stefan Siebers, inwieweit das westlich-zionistische Konzept von der jüdischen Nation mit klar definierten Grenzen aufgegangen ist. Ist der »Judenstaat« der uneinnehmbare Leuchtturm des Okzidents im Nahen Osten?Der Autor lädt uns ein, die Erzählungen und Romane der hebräischen Schriftsteller neu zu lesen. Mit zahlreichen Beispielen belegt er, dass bald nach der Gründung Israels 1948 ein tiefgreifender Prozess der Transkulturation einsetzte, der sich in der modernhebräischen Literatur nicht nur niederschlägt, sondern von dieser auch befördert wird. Über alle Grenzen hinweg ist Israel mit dem Orient längst verwoben.Aus den Randzonen zwischen Tag und Traum, zwischen Kulturland und Ödnis ist fast unmerklich der Orientale ins Bewusstsein der israelischen Leser getreten. Zunächst war er noch der unheimliche Fremde, begehrenswert und erschreckend zugleich. Doch inzwischen erhebt er seine Stimme gleichberechtigt und selbstbewusst in der polyphonen Kultur des Landes. Israel ist dabei, sich aus der Isolation zu befreien. Zu Brückenbauern wurden die jüdischen Autoren, die selbst aus dem Orient stammen. Stefan Siebers lenkt unser Augenmerk auf die Romanciers und Erzähler aus dem Irak, deren Werke von Zerrissenheit und dem Willen zum Neuanfang zeugen. Mit ihnen vollzieht er den Weg Israels zu einer modernen, zum steten Wandel bereiten und somit im wahrsten Sinne »transkulturellen«Gesellschaft nach.
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- 2010
6. Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel : Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual
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Aziza Khazzoom and Aziza Khazzoom
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- Ethnicity--Israel, Multiculturalism--Israel, Mizrahim--Israel, National characteristics, Israeli, Jews--Israel--Identity, Israelis
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Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other? The most common sociological answer is that they want to monopolize scarce resources—good jobs or top educations—for themselves. This book offers a different answer, showing that racial and ethnic discrimination can also occur to preserve particular group identities. Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel focuses on the early period of Israeli statehood to examine how the European Jewish founders treated Middle Eastern Jewish immigrants. The author argues that, shaped by their own unique encounter with European colonialism, the European Jews were intent on producing Israel as part of the West. To this end, they excluded and discriminated against those Middle Eastern Jews who threatened the goal of Westernization. Blending quantitative and qualitative evidence, Aziza Khazzoom provides a compelling rationale for the emergence of ethnic identity and group discrimination, while also suggesting new ways to understand Israeli-Palestinian relations.
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- 2008
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