Galia Sabar
Biographic Data
| ID | 190877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Galia Sabar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Galia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabar |
| SIGNATURE | SABAR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1431-8007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Experiences, Identity, and Adaptation Among Children of Migrant Laborers in Compulsory Military Service in the Israel Defense Forces
From Fragility to Empowerment through Philanthropy
Lockdown in response to the spread of COVID-19 is a challenging period for migrant laborers. This study used a mixed-methods approach to explore how a community of Filipino migrants working as live-in caregivers in Israel coped with the lockdown. Philanthropy for Filipinos in need in Israel and back home was found to be an effective coping mechanism. While lockdown conditions increased the fragility of the marginalized migrant workers, their abil…
Rethinking voice and silence
Israeli society is complex, multifaceted, heterogeneous, pluralistic, hectic and loud. Yet, as this volume claims, within this cacophonic arena, islands of silence and pockets of voicelessness remain. Obviously, not all of these could be addressed in this volume, leaving some unexplored: the voices of those suffering from terminal illness, of elders subjected to ageism, of the fat and the disabled, of the LGBT community and of non-Jewish migrants…
Eritrean Refugees’ Utilization of Antenatal Services in Israel
This study analyzes Eritrean refugee women's utilization of antenatal services in Israel by means of retrospective self‐reports surveys ( N = 63) targeting women's service utilization (array of services used, frequency rates, facility rates and demographic correlates) and semi‐structured interviews ( N = 10) targeting women's experienced barriers for service utilization. Findings show that Eritrean women make substantive use of the full array of …
We must do something instead of just watch
This article analyzes the outcomes of the first medical interpreter vocational training course for Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel. Our study draws on the work of Phyllis Butow et al. on medical interpreters’ perceptions of their role, including the challenges they face; on Elena Ragazzi’s call for a flexible evaluation of vocational training outcomes; and on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “cultural capital” as an empowering tool for change. The …
Doing and Displaying Gendered Boundary Work among Blended Families in Israel
This article seeks to introduce a more complex understanding of family change in Israel, through the case study of Israeli blended families. Going beyond the research on blended families in Israel and elsewhere, we wish to focus our analysis on how blended families are displayed in contemporary Israeli society. The analytical stress on displaying enables us to discern the fluidity and creativity in contemporary family life in Israel, as well as t…
Now I am also Israeli”
In 2006 and 2010, following demands from local and international civil society organizations, Israel granted civil status to approximately 1500 undocumented migrant workers’ children. This was considered a “one time humanitarian gesture,” not to be repeated. Thousands of other children, who did not fulfill the required criteria, were left without civil status. Within the context of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people, this mixed‐methods stu…
I'll sue you if you publish my wife's interview
This article addresses ethical dilemmas linked to using in-depth interviews while researching blended families in Israel, mainly during the analysis phase and while getting interviewees' final written approval, prior to publication. Amongst the dilemmas presented are: should we publish statements that we thought might harm the interviewee even though we got their approval? Or those including pejorative statements on members of the interviewee's e…
Eritrean Asylum Seekers’ Lament Ceremonies in Israel as Contested Sites of Identity Formation
Based on extensive qualitative research, this paper focuses on lament ceremonies Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel performed in public parks in 2008–2014.1 Specifically, we expose social and political structures of this diaspora, including mechanisms of survival in a context of harsh living conditions, a fragile legal status and a hostile environment. Following Werbner’s analysis of diasporas as chaordic entities, having no single representation …
Enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship
Journal Article Enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship: African labor migrants returning from Israel Get access Galia Sabar, Galia Sabar †Department of African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michal Pagis Michal Pagis * ‡Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel. *Corresponding author. Email: michalpagi…
Africa - Israel - Africa Return-migration experiences of African labour migrants
This paper analyses homecoming experiences of African labour migrants who lived in Israel and returned home. Using qualitative research methodologies, I discerned what factors - material and non-material - determine the relative success of the return process. Focusing on these factors’ effects, I offer a new understanding of labour migrants’ homecoming experiences: those who are “content,” “readjusting,” or “lost. Following Ulrich Beck's (2006) a…
Remembering the Past and Constructing the Future over a Communal Plate
Since 2005, asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan have been immigrating to Israel via the Egyptian–Israeli border. By February 2011, approximately 33,000 asylum seekers resided in Israel, most of them in the southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv. Literature has focused on legal and political aspects of this new wave of migration, but little research has documented their social, religious and economic institutions and none has considered their self-e…
Israel and the ‘Holy Land’
The religious arena created in Israel by sub-Saharan African migrants from 1990-2008 was an expanded and flexible one which touched on complex questions related not only to what some may term “purely” religious themes but, among other issues, to identity and rights. The present paper compares two waves of migration, 1 the first arriving in Israel by air as tourists or pilgrims throughout the 1990s, mainly from West Africa, part of a larger worldw…
Witchcraft and Concepts of Evil amongst African Migrant Workers in Israel
Based on qualitative research methodologies, this article will focus on exploring and analyzing notions of witchcraft and evil amongst African migrant labourers in the midst of deportation and harsh economics, beginning in the 2000s. The analysis will suggest that juxtaposing family, social tension, stress, and witchcraft is significant in understanding the role of witchcraft, evil forces, and malicious spirits in the way African migrants experie…
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
Olumba Olumba in Israel
This paper, based on qualitative research, begins with a short overview of the history, theology and daily activities of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS) in Israel, from its establishment in 1984 until its dismantling in 2003. Emphasis is given to the interpersonal relations that developed within the BCS congregation and on the relations between BCS and other local African Christian congregations established by African migrant labourer…
I'm singing my way up’
African Christianity in the Jewish State
This paper examines the role of African Initiated Churches (AICs) in the lives of African migrant laborers in Israel. Its aim is to attain a deeper understanding of religion and church affiliation among African migrant laborers in Israel from the perspective of the Africans themselves. It traces the creation and development of the AICs in Israel, including the various services and activities that the churches provided for their members in the soc…
Church, State, and Society in Kenya
Timely...(an) extremely readable, though scholarly book It deserves wide attention. Church Times
Church and State in Kenya, 1986-1992
This article examines the stages by which the Church in Kenya offered a primary challenge to the closed political system of Daniel Arap Moi's regime, yet without establishing a political party. More specifically, this article reviews the role of me Church between 1986–1992 in generating and sustaining a public discourse on democracy and change in Kenya as well as its organizational grass-root political activities prior to the holding of the first…
The Political Significance of Myth
The article compares and contrasts the political significance of myth in two unique societies that have been subject to rapid and profound changes in the last decades: Iran and Kenya. It focuses on the articulation and diffusion of these societies' most dominant politico-cultural myths-the Mau Mau struggle (1952-60) and the Karbala paradigm, i.e. the martyrdom suffered by the Third Shi'i Imam Husayn ibn 'Ali at Karbala in AD 680. The discussion s…
The Mau Mau Myth
Forty years after the British colonial authorities in Kenya declared a state of emergency to crush the Mau Mau, conclusive answers to what was the Mau Mau are still intriguing. Since 1961 there has been an ongoing dispute over the interpretation of the Mau Mau myth, especially in relation to its relevance to the socio-political presence. The government, whether Kenyatta's or Moi's, has had the power at its disposal to determine which themes in th…
Politics' and 'Power' in the Kenyan Public Discourse and Recent Events
Cet article examine les maniares diverses dont I'Eglise est devenue un eldment fondamental du discours socio-politique qui a recemment emerge au Kenya de 1988 r1994. Autrement dit, cet article analyse le processus grace auquel l'Eglise est devenue la conscience d'un rdgime celui du President Moi conscience dont le but etait de reduire la liberte du discours politique par l'imposition d'une expression politique Idgitime de plus en plus etroite. L'…
Religion and the Marxist state in Ethiopia
(1989). Religion and the Marxist state in Ethiopia: The case of the Ethiopian Jews. Religion in Communist Lands: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 247-256
Remembering the Past and Constructing the Future over a Communal Plate
Since 2005, asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan have been immigrating to Israel via the Egyptian–Israeli border. By February 2011, approximately 33,000 asylum seekers resided in Israel, most of them in the southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv. Literature has focused on legal and political aspects of this new wave of migration, but little research has documented their social, religious and economic institutions and none has considered their self-e…
Now I am also Israeli”
In 2006 and 2010, following demands from local and international civil society organizations, Israel granted civil status to approximately 1500 undocumented migrant workers’ children. This was considered a “one time humanitarian gesture,” not to be repeated. Thousands of other children, who did not fulfill the required criteria, were left without civil status. Within the context of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people, this mixed‐methods stu…
African Christianity in the Jewish State
This paper examines the role of African Initiated Churches (AICs) in the lives of African migrant laborers in Israel. Its aim is to attain a deeper understanding of religion and church affiliation among African migrant laborers in Israel from the perspective of the Africans themselves. It traces the creation and development of the AICs in Israel, including the various services and activities that the churches provided for their members in the soc…
Church and State in Kenya, 1986-1992
This article examines the stages by which the Church in Kenya offered a primary challenge to the closed political system of Daniel Arap Moi's regime, yet without establishing a political party. More specifically, this article reviews the role of me Church between 1986–1992 in generating and sustaining a public discourse on democracy and change in Kenya as well as its organizational grass-root political activities prior to the holding of the first…
Eritrean Asylum Seekers’ Lament Ceremonies in Israel as Contested Sites of Identity Formation
Based on extensive qualitative research, this paper focuses on lament ceremonies Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel performed in public parks in 2008–2014.1 Specifically, we expose social and political structures of this diaspora, including mechanisms of survival in a context of harsh living conditions, a fragile legal status and a hostile environment. Following Werbner’s analysis of diasporas as chaordic entities, having no single representation …
Israel and the ‘Holy Land’
The religious arena created in Israel by sub-Saharan African migrants from 1990-2008 was an expanded and flexible one which touched on complex questions related not only to what some may term “purely” religious themes but, among other issues, to identity and rights. The present paper compares two waves of migration, 1 the first arriving in Israel by air as tourists or pilgrims throughout the 1990s, mainly from West Africa, part of a larger worldw…
Witchcraft and Concepts of Evil amongst African Migrant Workers in Israel
Based on qualitative research methodologies, this article will focus on exploring and analyzing notions of witchcraft and evil amongst African migrant labourers in the midst of deportation and harsh economics, beginning in the 2000s. The analysis will suggest that juxtaposing family, social tension, stress, and witchcraft is significant in understanding the role of witchcraft, evil forces, and malicious spirits in the way African migrants experie…
The Mau Mau Myth
Forty years after the British colonial authorities in Kenya declared a state of emergency to crush the Mau Mau, conclusive answers to what was the Mau Mau are still intriguing. Since 1961 there has been an ongoing dispute over the interpretation of the Mau Mau myth, especially in relation to its relevance to the socio-political presence. The government, whether Kenyatta's or Moi's, has had the power at its disposal to determine which themes in th…
Doing and Displaying Gendered Boundary Work among Blended Families in Israel
This article seeks to introduce a more complex understanding of family change in Israel, through the case study of Israeli blended families. Going beyond the research on blended families in Israel and elsewhere, we wish to focus our analysis on how blended families are displayed in contemporary Israeli society. The analytical stress on displaying enables us to discern the fluidity and creativity in contemporary family life in Israel, as well as t…
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
Olumba Olumba in Israel
This paper, based on qualitative research, begins with a short overview of the history, theology and daily activities of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS) in Israel, from its establishment in 1984 until its dismantling in 2003. Emphasis is given to the interpersonal relations that developed within the BCS congregation and on the relations between BCS and other local African Christian congregations established by African migrant labourer…
I'll sue you if you publish my wife's interview
This article addresses ethical dilemmas linked to using in-depth interviews while researching blended families in Israel, mainly during the analysis phase and while getting interviewees' final written approval, prior to publication. Amongst the dilemmas presented are: should we publish statements that we thought might harm the interviewee even though we got their approval? Or those including pejorative statements on members of the interviewee's e…
Enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship
Journal Article Enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship: African labor migrants returning from Israel Get access Galia Sabar, Galia Sabar †Department of African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michal Pagis Michal Pagis * ‡Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel. *Corresponding author. Email: michalpagi…
From Fragility to Empowerment through Philanthropy
Lockdown in response to the spread of COVID-19 is a challenging period for migrant laborers. This study used a mixed-methods approach to explore how a community of Filipino migrants working as live-in caregivers in Israel coped with the lockdown. Philanthropy for Filipinos in need in Israel and back home was found to be an effective coping mechanism. While lockdown conditions increased the fragility of the marginalized migrant workers, their abil…
Eritrean Refugees’ Utilization of Antenatal Services in Israel
This study analyzes Eritrean refugee women's utilization of antenatal services in Israel by means of retrospective self‐reports surveys ( N = 63) targeting women's service utilization (array of services used, frequency rates, facility rates and demographic correlates) and semi‐structured interviews ( N = 10) targeting women's experienced barriers for service utilization. Findings show that Eritrean women make substantive use of the full array of …
I'm singing my way up’
Religion and the Marxist state in Ethiopia
(1989). Religion and the Marxist state in Ethiopia: The case of the Ethiopian Jews. Religion in Communist Lands: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 247-256
The Mau Mau Myth
Forty years after the British colonial authorities in Kenya declared a state of emergency to crush the Mau Mau, conclusive answers to what was the Mau Mau are still intriguing. Since 1961 there has been an ongoing dispute over the interpretation of the Mau Mau myth, especially in relation to its relevance to the socio-political presence. The government, whether Kenyatta's or Moi's, has had the power at its disposal to determine which themes in th…
Politics' and 'Power' in the Kenyan Public Discourse and Recent Events
Cet article examine les maniares diverses dont I'Eglise est devenue un eldment fondamental du discours socio-politique qui a recemment emerge au Kenya de 1988 r1994. Autrement dit, cet article analyse le processus grace auquel l'Eglise est devenue la conscience d'un rdgime celui du President Moi conscience dont le but etait de reduire la liberte du discours politique par l'imposition d'une expression politique Idgitime de plus en plus etroite. L'…
The Political Significance of Myth
The article compares and contrasts the political significance of myth in two unique societies that have been subject to rapid and profound changes in the last decades: Iran and Kenya. It focuses on the articulation and diffusion of these societies' most dominant politico-cultural myths-the Mau Mau struggle (1952-60) and the Karbala paradigm, i.e. the martyrdom suffered by the Third Shi'i Imam Husayn ibn 'Ali at Karbala in AD 680. The discussion s…
Church and State in Kenya, 1986-1992
This article examines the stages by which the Church in Kenya offered a primary challenge to the closed political system of Daniel Arap Moi's regime, yet without establishing a political party. More specifically, this article reviews the role of me Church between 1986–1992 in generating and sustaining a public discourse on democracy and change in Kenya as well as its organizational grass-root political activities prior to the holding of the first…
Church, State, and Society in Kenya
Timely...(an) extremely readable, though scholarly book It deserves wide attention. Church Times
African Christianity in the Jewish State
This paper examines the role of African Initiated Churches (AICs) in the lives of African migrant laborers in Israel. Its aim is to attain a deeper understanding of religion and church affiliation among African migrant laborers in Israel from the perspective of the Africans themselves. It traces the creation and development of the AICs in Israel, including the various services and activities that the churches provided for their members in the soc…
I'm singing my way up’
Olumba Olumba in Israel
This paper, based on qualitative research, begins with a short overview of the history, theology and daily activities of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS) in Israel, from its establishment in 1984 until its dismantling in 2003. Emphasis is given to the interpersonal relations that developed within the BCS congregation and on the relations between BCS and other local African Christian congregations established by African migrant labourer…
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
Israel and the ‘Holy Land’
The religious arena created in Israel by sub-Saharan African migrants from 1990-2008 was an expanded and flexible one which touched on complex questions related not only to what some may term “purely” religious themes but, among other issues, to identity and rights. The present paper compares two waves of migration, 1 the first arriving in Israel by air as tourists or pilgrims throughout the 1990s, mainly from West Africa, part of a larger worldw…
Witchcraft and Concepts of Evil amongst African Migrant Workers in Israel
Based on qualitative research methodologies, this article will focus on exploring and analyzing notions of witchcraft and evil amongst African migrant labourers in the midst of deportation and harsh economics, beginning in the 2000s. The analysis will suggest that juxtaposing family, social tension, stress, and witchcraft is significant in understanding the role of witchcraft, evil forces, and malicious spirits in the way African migrants experie…
Africa - Israel - Africa Return-migration experiences of African labour migrants
This paper analyses homecoming experiences of African labour migrants who lived in Israel and returned home. Using qualitative research methodologies, I discerned what factors - material and non-material - determine the relative success of the return process. Focusing on these factors’ effects, I offer a new understanding of labour migrants’ homecoming experiences: those who are “content,” “readjusting,” or “lost. Following Ulrich Beck's (2006) a…
Remembering the Past and Constructing the Future over a Communal Plate
Since 2005, asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan have been immigrating to Israel via the Egyptian–Israeli border. By February 2011, approximately 33,000 asylum seekers resided in Israel, most of them in the southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv. Literature has focused on legal and political aspects of this new wave of migration, but little research has documented their social, religious and economic institutions and none has considered their self-e…
Enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship
Journal Article Enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship: African labor migrants returning from Israel Get access Galia Sabar, Galia Sabar †Department of African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michal Pagis Michal Pagis * ‡Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel. *Corresponding author. Email: michalpagi…
Eritrean Asylum Seekers’ Lament Ceremonies in Israel as Contested Sites of Identity Formation
Based on extensive qualitative research, this paper focuses on lament ceremonies Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel performed in public parks in 2008–2014.1 Specifically, we expose social and political structures of this diaspora, including mechanisms of survival in a context of harsh living conditions, a fragile legal status and a hostile environment. Following Werbner’s analysis of diasporas as chaordic entities, having no single representation …
Now I am also Israeli”
In 2006 and 2010, following demands from local and international civil society organizations, Israel granted civil status to approximately 1500 undocumented migrant workers’ children. This was considered a “one time humanitarian gesture,” not to be repeated. Thousands of other children, who did not fulfill the required criteria, were left without civil status. Within the context of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people, this mixed‐methods stu…
I'll sue you if you publish my wife's interview
This article addresses ethical dilemmas linked to using in-depth interviews while researching blended families in Israel, mainly during the analysis phase and while getting interviewees' final written approval, prior to publication. Amongst the dilemmas presented are: should we publish statements that we thought might harm the interviewee even though we got their approval? Or those including pejorative statements on members of the interviewee's e…
We must do something instead of just watch
This article analyzes the outcomes of the first medical interpreter vocational training course for Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel. Our study draws on the work of Phyllis Butow et al. on medical interpreters’ perceptions of their role, including the challenges they face; on Elena Ragazzi’s call for a flexible evaluation of vocational training outcomes; and on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “cultural capital” as an empowering tool for change. The …
Doing and Displaying Gendered Boundary Work among Blended Families in Israel
This article seeks to introduce a more complex understanding of family change in Israel, through the case study of Israeli blended families. Going beyond the research on blended families in Israel and elsewhere, we wish to focus our analysis on how blended families are displayed in contemporary Israeli society. The analytical stress on displaying enables us to discern the fluidity and creativity in contemporary family life in Israel, as well as t…
Rethinking voice and silence
Israeli society is complex, multifaceted, heterogeneous, pluralistic, hectic and loud. Yet, as this volume claims, within this cacophonic arena, islands of silence and pockets of voicelessness remain. Obviously, not all of these could be addressed in this volume, leaving some unexplored: the voices of those suffering from terminal illness, of elders subjected to ageism, of the fat and the disabled, of the LGBT community and of non-Jewish migrants…
Eritrean Refugees’ Utilization of Antenatal Services in Israel
This study analyzes Eritrean refugee women's utilization of antenatal services in Israel by means of retrospective self‐reports surveys ( N = 63) targeting women's service utilization (array of services used, frequency rates, facility rates and demographic correlates) and semi‐structured interviews ( N = 10) targeting women's experienced barriers for service utilization. Findings show that Eritrean women make substantive use of the full array of …
Experiences, Identity, and Adaptation Among Children of Migrant Laborers in Compulsory Military Service in the Israel Defense Forces
From Fragility to Empowerment through Philanthropy
Lockdown in response to the spread of COVID-19 is a challenging period for migrant laborers. This study used a mixed-methods approach to explore how a community of Filipino migrants working as live-in caregivers in Israel coped with the lockdown. Philanthropy for Filipinos in need in Israel and back home was found to be an effective coping mechanism. While lockdown conditions increased the fragility of the marginalized migrant workers, their abil…
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