Latinos in Israel : language and citizenship / Alejandro I. Paz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paz, Alejandro I., author.

Series:

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Israel.

Immigrants.

Assimilation (Sociology).

Deportation.

Government policy.

Latin Americans.

Ethnicity.

Migrant labor.

Israel.

Migrant labor--Israel.

Latin Americans--Israel--Ethnic identity.

Latin Americans--Israel--Government relations.

Latin Americans--Israel--Cultural assimiation.

Deportation--Government policy--Israel.

Assimilation (Sociology)--Israel.

Israel--Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration.

Israel--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Israel--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvii, 225 pages : illustrations, black and white photographs ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Latinos in Israel charts the unexpected ways that non-citizen immigrants become potential citizens. In the late 1980s Latin Americans of Christian background started arriving in Israel as labor migrants. Alejandro Paz examines the ways they perceived themselves and were perceived as potential citizens during an unexpected campaign for citizenship in the mid-2000s. This ethnographic account describes the problem of citizenship as it unfolds through language and language use among these Latinos both at home and in public life, and considers the different ways by which Latinos were recognized as having some of the qualities of citizens. Paz explains how unauthorized labor migrants quickly gained certain limited rights, such as the right to attend public schools or the right to work. Ultimately engaging Israelis across many such contexts, Latinos, especially youth, gained recognition as citizens to Israeli public opinion and governing politics. Paz illustrates how language use and mediatized interaction are under-appreciated aspects of the politics of immigration, citizenship, and national belonging"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Language and the unexpected citizen

Becoming noncitizens: modernizing agency in Latino arrivals to Israel

Strangers in their own home: educación, domesticity, and transnational intimacy

Inculcating citizenship: language, performance, and the commensuration of cultural difference

Chisme as Latino public life: La Alcachofa and marginal public voices

El Sapo speaks: police informers and the voice of the state

Becoming Israeli citizens: Latino youth, uncanny similarity, and the message of citizenship

Epilogue: The unexpected citizen as voice of response.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253036506

025303650X

9780253036490

0253036496

9780253036513

0253036518

OCLC:

1066693786