Managing citizenship and migration: Undocumented labor migrants’ children and policy reforms in Israel

Abstract

During the nineties, a rich body of scholarship has evolved in the attempt to grasp the challenges that the phenomenon of migration poses to the nation-state in relation to one of its main foundations: citizenship (Brubaker, 1989; Bauböck, 1994; Sassen, 1996, 1998; Joppke, 1999). While the nature of this challenge and its scope have been subject to serious debate (Soysal, 1994; Brubaker, 1998; Joppke, 1998), there is a common understanding that the globalization of human and capital flows, has yielded to new definitions of membership and participation that are not necessarily congruent with the limits of the nation-state.