Perspectives on labour migration in Israel

Abstract

PlanThe Setting: Tel AvivÄôs Central Bus Station, Äúcapital of the foreign scholarshipThe Migration policies of a Äúnon-immigration contextState-level policies and the paradox of legal statusThe City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and the state-municipal paradoxNon-government organisations (NGOs)Why Israel?Views from south tel aviv: structure, agency, and indeterminacy in the lives of migrant workers Ethnographic portrait 1: Marina and RaymondEthnographic portrait 2: Tanya and SergeiEthnographic portrait 3: Janie and The Setting: Tel AvivÄôs Central Bus Station, Äúcapital of the foreign workersÄù1Half a century after the establishment of the State of Israel, a stranger meandering through Tel AvivÄôs labyrinthian, seven-story Central Bus Station would be surprised to hear not just Hebrew, or even just IsraelÄôs recognized languages of Hebrew and Arabic, Russian and Amharic, but rather a global cacophony of languages: Tagalog and Romanian, Nigerian languages like Igbo and Yoruba, and Ghanaian languages like Twi and ...