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Foreign workers in Israel : global perspectives / Israel Drori.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drori, Israel.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Israeli studies.
- SUNY series in Israeli studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers--Israel.
- Foreign workers.
- Foreign workers--Government policy--Israel.
- Foreign workers, Filipino--Israel.
- Foreign workers, Filipino.
- Foreign workers, Romanian--Israel.
- Foreign workers, Romanian.
- Foreign workers, Thai--Israel.
- Foreign workers, Thai.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this account of a social experiment gone awry, Israel Drori exposes a little-known and recent phenomenon: the importation of foreign workers from Third World economies to Israel. Focusing on Romanian, Thai, and Filipina migrants brought to Israel for specified periods of employment, Drori examines the effect of migrants on Israeli society, particularly the issue of national identity. What began as a political corrective—avoiding the danger of hiring Palestinians to do work that Jewish Israelis would not—has developed into a social and economic problem the state does not know how to handle. In addition to examining the work experiences and social lives of these workers, Drori also situates the Israeli case within a global context, where many affluent nations have significant populations of marginalized, undocumented workers.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Labor migration in Israel: theoretical context
- The evolution of government policies and the migrant labor employment system
- Employment practices: the system of placement agencies
- Living and working as non-Israelis: Filipino caregivers
- Thai agricultural workers
- Rumanian construction workers
- Illegal labor migrants: life and work on the run
- Deportation
- The rhythm of policy and the employment system
- Labor migration policies and national identity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791477090
- 0791477096
- 9781441603715
- 1441603719
- OCLC:
- 316412870
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