"Tel Aviv Is Not Foreign to You": Urban Incorporation Policy on Labor Migrants in Israel1

From: The International Migration Review | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Raijman, Rebeca; Kemp, Adriana | Copyright information

This article addresses the growing disjuncture between urban and national policies regarding the incorporation of labor migrants in Israel. Drawing on fieldwork, in-depth interviews with Tel Aviv municipal officials, and archive analysis of Tel Aviv municipality minutes, we argue that urban migrant-directed policy elicits new understandings of membership and participation, other than those envisaged by national parameters, which bear important, even if unintended, consequences for the de fact...

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