Immigration to Israel : Sociological Perspectives Studies of Israeli Society

ISBN-13: 9781560009979 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 583 str.

Judith Shuval; Elazer Leshem; Elazar Leshem

Opis

This eighth volume in the Studies of Israeli Society series presents a broad array of topics related to the sociology of immigration to Israel. The focus is on immigration and migration during the 1980s and 1990s. The chapters were selected from a list of approximately 450 articles on the subject by Israeli sociologists. The book covers such issues as migrants in the occupational structure; migration and health; formal and informal mechanisms of integration; ethnic identities and processes of integration; and processes of migration and their implications. Immigration to Israel opens with two papers written specifically for this volume. The first is a theoretical-historical chapter by the editors. They discuss the role and contribution of Israeli sociologists to the ongoing literature of migration.The second by Sergio DellaPergola, provides a historical and comparative perspective of the underlying demographic characteristics of migration to Israel in the context of global Jewish migration processes. Other chapters and contributors include: -New Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial Aspirations among Immigrants from the Former USSR in Israel- by M. Lerner and Y. Hendeles, -New Immigrants as a Special Group in the Israeli Armed Forces- by V. Azarya and B. Kimmerling; -Iranian Ethnicity in Israel- by J. L. Goldstein; -Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel- by S. Kaplan and C. Rosen; 'The Attitudes of Israeli Youth Toward Inter-ethnic and Intra-ethnic Marriage- by R. Shachar; and -Jewish Immigrants from Israel in the United States- by Z. Eisenbach. Immigration to Israel: Sociological Perspectives concludes with a selected bibliography. This volume contains a wealth of information and will be important to sociologists, historians, scholars of Israeli culture, and ethnicity specialists.

Spis treści

I: Introduction; 1: The Sociology of Migration in Israel: A Critical View; 2: The Global Context of Migration to Israel; II: Migrants in the Occupational Structure; 3: New Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial Aspirations among Immigrants from the Former U.S.S.R. in Israel; 4: Modes of Labor Market Incorporation and Occupational Cost among New Immigrants to Israel; 5: The Dynamics of Professional Commitment: Immigrant Physicians from the Former Soviet Union in Israel; III: Migration and Health; 6: Physical and Psychological Well-Being among Immigrant Referrals to Colonoscopy; 7: Fertility Patterns among Soviet Immigrants to Israel: The Role of Cultural Variables; 8: Continuity and Change in Reproductive and Abortion Patterns of Soviet Immigrants in Israel; IV: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Integration; 9: Soviet Immigration as Viewed by Jews and Arabs: Divided Attitudes in a Divided Country; 10: New Immigrants as a Special Group in the Israeli Armed Forces; 11: The Influence of Soviet Political Culture on Immigrant Voters in Israel: The Elections of 1992; 12: Israeli Students’ Attitudes toward Children-Immigrants from Russia; 13: Informal Agencies of Socialization and the Integration of Immigrant Youth into Society: An Example from Israel; 14: The Israeli Public’s Attitudes toward the New Immigrants of the 1990s; V: Ethnic Identities and Processes of Integration; 15: Identity and Language: The Social Insertion of Soviet Jews in Israel; 16: Ethnic Convergence Processes under Conditions of Persisting Socioeconomic-Decreasing Cultural Differences: The Case of Israeli Society; 17: Iranian Ethnicity in Israel: The Performance of Identity; 18: Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel: Between Preservation of Culture and Invention of Tradition; 19: Invented Ethnicity as Collective and Personal Text: An Association of Rumanian Israelis; 20: The Attitudes of Israeli Youth toward Inter-Ethnic and Intra-Ethnic Marriage: 1975 and 1990; VI: Processes of Emigration and Their Implications; 21: Jewish Emigrants from Israel in the United States; 22: Commitment, Ethnicity and Class as Factors in Emigration of Kibbutz and Non-Kibbutz Members from Israel; 23: One-Night Stand Ethnicity: The Malaise of Israeli-Americans; 24: Rhetorical Ethnicity of Permanent Sojourners: The Case of Israeli Immigrants in the Chicago Area

O autorze

Elazer Leshem