Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation

ISBN-13: 9780415650649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Leila Farsakh

Opis

This work examines the flow of Palestinian labour to Israel, and shows how it has fluctuated over time, with, most recently, a shift in the flow towards Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Political Economy of Migration and Structural Change  2. The Political Economy of Labour and Development in the WBGS  3. State and Settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip  4. Labour Release and Transfer from the West Bank and Gaza Strip  5. The Absorption of Palestinian Labour into the Israeli Economy  6. Labour Flows and the Oslo Accords  7. The 'Bantustanisation' of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.  Conclusion

O autorze

Leila Farsakh is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her doctorate from the University of London and worked with the OCED in Paris and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah. Her research focuses on migration issues, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the political economy of the Middle East.