A Kemp
Biographic Data
| ID | 8531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Kemp |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemp |
| SIGNATURE | KEMP A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2096-710X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Precarities of non-citizen childhoods: Temporal, Multi-Actor and Ethno-National Politics of Migrant Children's (Non)belonging
Increasing numbers of children worldwide grow up in liminal legality, precarious socio-legal status, semi-legality or de-facto stateless, as a result of migration. While the impact of legal precarity as fault-line of global inequality is widely recognized, research on non-citizenship of migrant children remains isolated within specific disciplines and centers mainly on the experience of the undocumented child in the global north. Yet, in a global…
Paradoxes of Migration Policy Rescaling-Local Migration Policies in Tel Aviv in Times of Restrictionism
Scholarship of local migration policies identifies a variegated landscape of convergence and divergence between governance scales in times of restrictionism but pays less attention to the simultaneous dynamics of convergence and divergence that policy rescaling takes within a single national-local space. Arguing that cross-scale compliance and challenge can coexist, I examine how Israeli restrictive policies affect the policy frames that local ac…
Urban governance of liminal legality comparing the incorporation of migrant children in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem
Who drives migration discourse and in what direction? claims-making and political mobilisation analyses of labor migration in Israel
As labor migration policies increasingly operate at the crossroads of neoliberal political economies, nativist nationalisms and assertive human rights activism, serious debates have emerged about whose logic is setting the discourse on migration issues, in what direction and with what justifications. Yet, while the actors driving the public discourse have been a central concern for scholars interested in the institutional transformation of migrat…
Undoing age, redefining gender, and negotiating time: Embodied experiences of midlife women in endurance sports
Despite the increasing participation of midlife women in sports, and biomedical and consumerist discourses encouraging physical activity, research on intersections of age, gender, and the body in sports is lacking or fragmentary. Based on in-depth interviews with Israeli women aged 40-60 years participating in marathons, ultramarathons, and triathlons, we explore how they experience their participation and how these experiences correspond with no…
Elite without Elitism? Boundary Work and the Israeli Elite Philanthropy in a Changing Field of Power
The crisis of neoliberalism and the upsurge of populist politics have renewed interest in how contemporary economic elites justify their privileged position, trying to be 'moral' and 'rich' in an era of increasing inequality and an anti-elite climate. We addressed this question through an ethnographic analysis of the socio-cultural life of the heirs of the Israeli economic elite and of the boundary-making processes that philanthropy allows them a…
Uneasy passages between neoliberalism and feminism: Social inclusion and financialization in Israel's empowerment microfinance
This article focuses on feminist non‐governmental organizations advocating for economic empowerment of women (EEW) through microfinance, using Israel as a case study. Through fieldwork, interviews and documents, we investigate the institutional practices, cultural discourses and struggles that EEWs develop in order to expose the particular ways in which feminist organizations interact with the world of finance and state institutions. Our analysis…
Stratified and defensive planning democracy: Hearings on objections to plans in nine Israeli cities
This article contributes to the debate on inclusion and democracy in planning by comparing the answers given by five Israeli district committees to objections to planning proposals in nine cities, and by analysing their discourse in terms of socio-spatial inequality. We investigate how the committees’ answers to various professionals and civil actors, and how the type and degree of effort they invest in justifying their decisions, reflect their v…
The uneven geographies of post-political planning: Objections to urban regeneration projects in peripheral and central Israeli cities
This article probes the Israeli 'Clearance and Construction' urban regeneration programme, which encourages apartment owners nationwide to turn their old dwellings into new tower-clusters. By comparing distinct planning communications on such projects, we aim to contribute a class-related perspective to the debate on post-politics in planning. Planning literature addresses the neutralizing effects of the neoliberal ethos on urban regeneration, hi…
La institucionalización de la migración laboral en Israel
El artículo se centra en el proceso de institucionalización del fenómeno de migraciones laborales en Israel. El análisis describe las formas a través de las cuales las regulaciones del estado crearon las condiciones para el surgimiento de una fuerza de trabajo precaria y flexible de extranjeros en el mercado laboral Israelí. Cuatro dimensiones del proceso de institucionalización son analizadas: (1) la fijación de cuotas, otorgamiento de permisos …
Mobilizing Migrant Workers' Rights in "Non-immigration" Countries: The Politics of Resonance and Migrants' Rights Activism in Israel and Singapore
How are the rights of migrant workers mobilized in non-immigration regimes? Drawing on an ethnography of human rights NGOs in Israel and Singapore, two countries that share similar ethnic policies but differ in their political regime, this study contributes to scholarship on migrants' rights mobilization by expanding cross-national analysis beyond the United States and West Europe and diverting its focus from legal institutions to the places wher…
Struggling between Routine and Emergency: The Legalization of Migrants and Human Rights Activism in Israel
This article introduces the distinction between 'routine' and 'emergency' times in human rights struggles. Based on ethnography of Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating on migrant workers' rights, we show how this emergent distinction manifests in the social dynamics of human rights struggles. Thus, whereas in their daily work, human rights NGOs follow the logic of the bureaucratic system in a slow, Sisyphean manner, in times o…
Wanted Workers but Unwanted Mothers: Mobilizing Moral Claims on Migrant Care Workers' Families in Israel
Literature on global care work deals with biopolitical tensions between care markets and exclusionary migration regimes leading to the formation of transnational families. Nevertheless, it disregards how these tensions produce "illegal" families within countries of destination, catalyzing the mobilization of moral claims over their recognition in the local civil society. To fill this lacuna, this article looks at the interface between migration p…
Between Neoliberal Governance and the Right to the City: Participatory politics in Berlin and Tel Aviv
Based on a comparison of Berlin and Tel Aviv, this article investigates the ways in which ensembles of participatory instruments mediate between neoliberal urban regimes and political agency shaping differentially the meaning of participation and the types of claims that can be advanced. The article gives an overview of the recent history of both cities through the lens of participatory politics. Two in-depth case studies further examine the rela…
Bringing in State Regulations, Private Brokers, and Local Employers: A Meso-Level Analysis of Labor Trafficking in Israel
This article examines the intersection of state policies, private brokers and local employers that fuels trafficking practices and forced labor of legal labor migrants. Focusing on the Israeli case of labor migration, we offer a meso-level institutional analysis of the modes by which private brokers's actions combine with state regulations and policies in creating labor trafficking. More specifically, we stress the active role official labor migr…
Labor Migration in Israel: The Creation of a Non-free Workforce
Transnational Social Movements, Civil Society, and a Secret State: The Idea of a Nuclear-free World through Israel's Vanunu Affair
Studies on transnational social movements in world risk society tend to emphasize their centrality and effectiveness as the result of two major transformations: the decline of the nation-state as a primary locus of power and sovereignty, and the rise of assertive civil societies' subpolitics. Drawing on the ‘Vanunu affair’ (the Israeli technician who was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for making public Israel's nuclear secrets), and the re…
Les migrations du travail en Israël. Du travailleur palestinien à l'immigré d'outre-mer
À partir des années soixante-dix, le patronat israélien fait appel à de nombreux travailleurs venant des territoires palestiniens dans l'agriculture et le bâtiment. L'intensification des violences au début des années quatre-vingt-dix, conduit à un contrôle accru des déplacements des Palestiniens en Israël et pousse les employeurs à obtenir du gouvernement qu'il autorise la venue de travailleurs immigrés d'outre-mer. Le recrutement de cette main-d…
Managing Migration, Reprioritizing National Citizenship: Undocumented Migrant Workers' Children and Policy Reforms in Israel
The Article traces recent trends in the management and distribution of citizenship within the Israeli context of the 1990s, as they have evolved in the wake of new modes of migration that are neither Jewish nor Palestinian and that stem from liberalized market policies. The Article focuses on administrative and policy initiatives taken since September 2003 that deal with the naturalization of the children of undocumented labor migrants. The vulne…
Phonetic Transcription: History
Risk, rationality, and regret: Responding to the uncertainty of childhood food anaphylaxis
Risk and uncertainty are unavoidable in clinical medicine. In the case of childhood food allergy, the dysphoric experience of uncertainty is heightened by the perception of unpredictable danger to young children. Medicine has tended to respond to uncertainty with forms of rational decision making. Rationality cannot, however, resolve uncertainty and provides an insufficient account of risk. This paper compares the medical and parental accounts of…
Citizenship, Ethnicity and Globalization
“Dangerous Populations”: State Territoriality and the Constitution of National Minorities
They are also our fallen. They were also Israeli citizens. Like us they participated in the national ballots and when they felt hurt, they went out onto the streets. None of them was armed. Yet most of them died from gunfire, or from rubber bullets or from a sniper shot.
Tel Aviv is Not Foreign to You”: Urban Incorporation Policy on Labor Migrants in Israel
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, e…
Labour migration and racialisation: Labour market mechanisms and labour migration control policies in Israel
This article deals with the modes through which labour migration recruitment and control policies have enacted the racialisation of a new category of migrants previously unknown in Israeli society: that of non‐Jewish and non‐Palestinian labour migrants, adding a new stratum of disenfranchised people into an already complex and tension ridden society. Drawing on the work of Robert Miles, I see the racialisation of migrant workers in Israel as the …
Contesting the limits of political participation: Latinos and black African migrant workers in Israel
The article addresses the significance of migrant associations and of their participatory practices as a vehicle by which migrant workers become political actors and negotiate membership in Israel. We offer a comparative analysis of black African and Latin American undocumented migrant communities to suggest the very fact that they manage to organize in autonomous associations in order to protect their interests, have the ability to mobilize supp…
International Migration, Domestic Work, and Care Work: Undocumented Latina Migrants in Israel
This article discusses three major dilemmas embedded in women's labor migration by focusing on undocumented Latina migrants in Israel. The first is that to break the cycle of blocked mobility in their homelands, migrant women must take jobs that they would have never taken in their countries of origin, despite uncertainty about possible economic outcomes. The second dilemma is that the search for economic betterment leads Latina migrants to risk …
Tel Aviv is Not Foreign to You”: Urban Incorporation Policy on Labor Migrants in Israel
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, e…
Labour migration and racialisation: Labour market mechanisms and labour migration control policies in Israel
This article deals with the modes through which labour migration recruitment and control policies have enacted the racialisation of a new category of migrants previously unknown in Israeli society: that of non‐Jewish and non‐Palestinian labour migrants, adding a new stratum of disenfranchised people into an already complex and tension ridden society. Drawing on the work of Robert Miles, I see the racialisation of migrant workers in Israel as the …
Wanted Workers but Unwanted Mothers: Mobilizing Moral Claims on Migrant Care Workers' Families in Israel
Literature on global care work deals with biopolitical tensions between care markets and exclusionary migration regimes leading to the formation of transnational families. Nevertheless, it disregards how these tensions produce "illegal" families within countries of destination, catalyzing the mobilization of moral claims over their recognition in the local civil society. To fill this lacuna, this article looks at the interface between migration p…
Bringing in State Regulations, Private Brokers, and Local Employers: A Meso-Level Analysis of Labor Trafficking in Israel
This article examines the intersection of state policies, private brokers and local employers that fuels trafficking practices and forced labor of legal labor migrants. Focusing on the Israeli case of labor migration, we offer a meso-level institutional analysis of the modes by which private brokers's actions combine with state regulations and policies in creating labor trafficking. More specifically, we stress the active role official labor migr…
Between Neoliberal Governance and the Right to the City: Participatory politics in Berlin and Tel Aviv
Based on a comparison of Berlin and Tel Aviv, this article investigates the ways in which ensembles of participatory instruments mediate between neoliberal urban regimes and political agency shaping differentially the meaning of participation and the types of claims that can be advanced. The article gives an overview of the recent history of both cities through the lens of participatory politics. Two in-depth case studies further examine the rela…
Mobilizing Migrant Workers' Rights in "Non-immigration" Countries: The Politics of Resonance and Migrants' Rights Activism in Israel and Singapore
How are the rights of migrant workers mobilized in non-immigration regimes? Drawing on an ethnography of human rights NGOs in Israel and Singapore, two countries that share similar ethnic policies but differ in their political regime, this study contributes to scholarship on migrants' rights mobilization by expanding cross-national analysis beyond the United States and West Europe and diverting its focus from legal institutions to the places wher…
The uneven geographies of post-political planning: Objections to urban regeneration projects in peripheral and central Israeli cities
This article probes the Israeli 'Clearance and Construction' urban regeneration programme, which encourages apartment owners nationwide to turn their old dwellings into new tower-clusters. By comparing distinct planning communications on such projects, we aim to contribute a class-related perspective to the debate on post-politics in planning. Planning literature addresses the neutralizing effects of the neoliberal ethos on urban regeneration, hi…
Urban governance of liminal legality comparing the incorporation of migrant children in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem
Elite without Elitism? Boundary Work and the Israeli Elite Philanthropy in a Changing Field of Power
The crisis of neoliberalism and the upsurge of populist politics have renewed interest in how contemporary economic elites justify their privileged position, trying to be 'moral' and 'rich' in an era of increasing inequality and an anti-elite climate. We addressed this question through an ethnographic analysis of the socio-cultural life of the heirs of the Israeli economic elite and of the boundary-making processes that philanthropy allows them a…
Uneasy passages between neoliberalism and feminism: Social inclusion and financialization in Israel's empowerment microfinance
This article focuses on feminist non‐governmental organizations advocating for economic empowerment of women (EEW) through microfinance, using Israel as a case study. Through fieldwork, interviews and documents, we investigate the institutional practices, cultural discourses and struggles that EEWs develop in order to expose the particular ways in which feminist organizations interact with the world of finance and state institutions. Our analysis…
Struggling between Routine and Emergency: The Legalization of Migrants and Human Rights Activism in Israel
This article introduces the distinction between 'routine' and 'emergency' times in human rights struggles. Based on ethnography of Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating on migrant workers' rights, we show how this emergent distinction manifests in the social dynamics of human rights struggles. Thus, whereas in their daily work, human rights NGOs follow the logic of the bureaucratic system in a slow, Sisyphean manner, in times o…
Dramatizing sovereignty: The construction of territorial dispute in the Israeli-Egyptian border at Taba
Undoing age, redefining gender, and negotiating time: Embodied experiences of midlife women in endurance sports
Despite the increasing participation of midlife women in sports, and biomedical and consumerist discourses encouraging physical activity, research on intersections of age, gender, and the body in sports is lacking or fragmentary. Based on in-depth interviews with Israeli women aged 40-60 years participating in marathons, ultramarathons, and triathlons, we explore how they experience their participation and how these experiences correspond with no…
Paradoxes of Migration Policy Rescaling-Local Migration Policies in Tel Aviv in Times of Restrictionism
Scholarship of local migration policies identifies a variegated landscape of convergence and divergence between governance scales in times of restrictionism but pays less attention to the simultaneous dynamics of convergence and divergence that policy rescaling takes within a single national-local space. Arguing that cross-scale compliance and challenge can coexist, I examine how Israeli restrictive policies affect the policy frames that local ac…
Stratified and defensive planning democracy: Hearings on objections to plans in nine Israeli cities
This article contributes to the debate on inclusion and democracy in planning by comparing the answers given by five Israeli district committees to objections to planning proposals in nine cities, and by analysing their discourse in terms of socio-spatial inequality. We investigate how the committees’ answers to various professionals and civil actors, and how the type and degree of effort they invest in justifying their decisions, reflect their v…
La institucionalización de la migración laboral en Israel
El artículo se centra en el proceso de institucionalización del fenómeno de migraciones laborales en Israel. El análisis describe las formas a través de las cuales las regulaciones del estado crearon las condiciones para el surgimiento de una fuerza de trabajo precaria y flexible de extranjeros en el mercado laboral Israelí. Cuatro dimensiones del proceso de institucionalización son analizadas: (1) la fijación de cuotas, otorgamiento de permisos …
Risk, rationality, and regret: Responding to the uncertainty of childhood food anaphylaxis
Risk and uncertainty are unavoidable in clinical medicine. In the case of childhood food allergy, the dysphoric experience of uncertainty is heightened by the perception of unpredictable danger to young children. Medicine has tended to respond to uncertainty with forms of rational decision making. Rationality cannot, however, resolve uncertainty and provides an insufficient account of risk. This paper compares the medical and parental accounts of…
"Making it" in Israel? Latino Undocumented Migrant Workers in the Holy Land
Every Saturday evening, hundreds of persons gather at a religious service in a Catholic church where a weekly mass is conducted in Spanish by a Franciscan priest. Many of the churchgoers actively participate, reading passages from the New Testament, singing in the choir, or playing instruments. Melodies of Latin American folk music are played intermittently, breaking the solemnity of the religious ritual. Two important aspects make this event uni…
Dramatizing sovereignty: The construction of territorial dispute in the Israeli-Egyptian border at Taba
Contesting the limits of political participation: Latinos and black African migrant workers in Israel
The article addresses the significance of migrant associations and of their participatory practices as a vehicle by which migrant workers become political actors and negotiate membership in Israel. We offer a comparative analysis of black African and Latin American undocumented migrant communities to suggest the very fact that they manage to organize in autonomous associations in order to protect their interests, have the ability to mobilize supp…
Naissance d'une « minorité piégée »: La gestion de la population arabe dans les débuts de l'État d'Israël
Durant les deux premières décennies de l'Etat d'Israël, une bande de territoire tout au long de la frontière a été placée sous administration militaire et sous un régime d'exception, tant à des fins de sécurité militaire proprement dite que pour mieux contrôler les populations palestiniennes qui y vivaient. Paradoxe : l'Etat israélien a fait de ses résidents palestiniens des citoyens alors que, comme "Etat juif", il ne pouvait que les considérer …
Christian Zionists in the Holy Land: Evangelical Churches, Labor Migrants, and the Jewish State
In this article we trace the creation of Evangelical churches created by and for Latin American undocumented migrants in Israel. First, we relate to the social significance of religious practices and beliefs for migrants' individual and collective identity in the host society and the ways through which non-Jewish labor migrants in Israel are creating alternative spaces that operate simultaneously as a new community of belonging. We consider the p…
International Migration, Domestic Work, and Care Work: Undocumented Latina Migrants in Israel
This article discusses three major dilemmas embedded in women's labor migration by focusing on undocumented Latina migrants in Israel. The first is that to break the cycle of blocked mobility in their homelands, migrant women must take jobs that they would have never taken in their countries of origin, despite uncertainty about possible economic outcomes. The second dilemma is that the search for economic betterment leads Latina migrants to risk …
“Dangerous Populations”: State Territoriality and the Constitution of National Minorities
They are also our fallen. They were also Israeli citizens. Like us they participated in the national ballots and when they felt hurt, they went out onto the streets. None of them was armed. Yet most of them died from gunfire, or from rubber bullets or from a sniper shot.
Tel Aviv is Not Foreign to You”: Urban Incorporation Policy on Labor Migrants in Israel
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, e…
Labour migration and racialisation: Labour market mechanisms and labour migration control policies in Israel
This article deals with the modes through which labour migration recruitment and control policies have enacted the racialisation of a new category of migrants previously unknown in Israeli society: that of non‐Jewish and non‐Palestinian labour migrants, adding a new stratum of disenfranchised people into an already complex and tension ridden society. Drawing on the work of Robert Miles, I see the racialisation of migrant workers in Israel as the …
Risk, rationality, and regret: Responding to the uncertainty of childhood food anaphylaxis
Risk and uncertainty are unavoidable in clinical medicine. In the case of childhood food allergy, the dysphoric experience of uncertainty is heightened by the perception of unpredictable danger to young children. Medicine has tended to respond to uncertainty with forms of rational decision making. Rationality cannot, however, resolve uncertainty and provides an insufficient account of risk. This paper compares the medical and parental accounts of…
Citizenship, Ethnicity and Globalization
Phonetic Transcription: History
Managing Migration, Reprioritizing National Citizenship: Undocumented Migrant Workers' Children and Policy Reforms in Israel
The Article traces recent trends in the management and distribution of citizenship within the Israeli context of the 1990s, as they have evolved in the wake of new modes of migration that are neither Jewish nor Palestinian and that stem from liberalized market policies. The Article focuses on administrative and policy initiatives taken since September 2003 that deal with the naturalization of the children of undocumented labor migrants. The vulne…
Transnational Social Movements, Civil Society, and a Secret State: The Idea of a Nuclear-free World through Israel's Vanunu Affair
Studies on transnational social movements in world risk society tend to emphasize their centrality and effectiveness as the result of two major transformations: the decline of the nation-state as a primary locus of power and sovereignty, and the rise of assertive civil societies' subpolitics. Drawing on the ‘Vanunu affair’ (the Israeli technician who was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for making public Israel's nuclear secrets), and the re…
Les migrations du travail en Israël. Du travailleur palestinien à l'immigré d'outre-mer
À partir des années soixante-dix, le patronat israélien fait appel à de nombreux travailleurs venant des territoires palestiniens dans l'agriculture et le bâtiment. L'intensification des violences au début des années quatre-vingt-dix, conduit à un contrôle accru des déplacements des Palestiniens en Israël et pousse les employeurs à obtenir du gouvernement qu'il autorise la venue de travailleurs immigrés d'outre-mer. Le recrutement de cette main-d…
Labor Migration in Israel: The Creation of a Non-free Workforce
Bringing in State Regulations, Private Brokers, and Local Employers: A Meso-Level Analysis of Labor Trafficking in Israel
This article examines the intersection of state policies, private brokers and local employers that fuels trafficking practices and forced labor of legal labor migrants. Focusing on the Israeli case of labor migration, we offer a meso-level institutional analysis of the modes by which private brokers's actions combine with state regulations and policies in creating labor trafficking. More specifically, we stress the active role official labor migr…
Between Neoliberal Governance and the Right to the City: Participatory politics in Berlin and Tel Aviv
Based on a comparison of Berlin and Tel Aviv, this article investigates the ways in which ensembles of participatory instruments mediate between neoliberal urban regimes and political agency shaping differentially the meaning of participation and the types of claims that can be advanced. The article gives an overview of the recent history of both cities through the lens of participatory politics. Two in-depth case studies further examine the rela…
La institucionalización de la migración laboral en Israel
El artículo se centra en el proceso de institucionalización del fenómeno de migraciones laborales en Israel. El análisis describe las formas a través de las cuales las regulaciones del estado crearon las condiciones para el surgimiento de una fuerza de trabajo precaria y flexible de extranjeros en el mercado laboral Israelí. Cuatro dimensiones del proceso de institucionalización son analizadas: (1) la fijación de cuotas, otorgamiento de permisos …
Mobilizing Migrant Workers' Rights in "Non-immigration" Countries: The Politics of Resonance and Migrants' Rights Activism in Israel and Singapore
How are the rights of migrant workers mobilized in non-immigration regimes? Drawing on an ethnography of human rights NGOs in Israel and Singapore, two countries that share similar ethnic policies but differ in their political regime, this study contributes to scholarship on migrants' rights mobilization by expanding cross-national analysis beyond the United States and West Europe and diverting its focus from legal institutions to the places wher…
Struggling between Routine and Emergency: The Legalization of Migrants and Human Rights Activism in Israel
This article introduces the distinction between 'routine' and 'emergency' times in human rights struggles. Based on ethnography of Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating on migrant workers' rights, we show how this emergent distinction manifests in the social dynamics of human rights struggles. Thus, whereas in their daily work, human rights NGOs follow the logic of the bureaucratic system in a slow, Sisyphean manner, in times o…
Wanted Workers but Unwanted Mothers: Mobilizing Moral Claims on Migrant Care Workers' Families in Israel
Literature on global care work deals with biopolitical tensions between care markets and exclusionary migration regimes leading to the formation of transnational families. Nevertheless, it disregards how these tensions produce "illegal" families within countries of destination, catalyzing the mobilization of moral claims over their recognition in the local civil society. To fill this lacuna, this article looks at the interface between migration p…
Uneasy passages between neoliberalism and feminism: Social inclusion and financialization in Israel's empowerment microfinance
This article focuses on feminist non‐governmental organizations advocating for economic empowerment of women (EEW) through microfinance, using Israel as a case study. Through fieldwork, interviews and documents, we investigate the institutional practices, cultural discourses and struggles that EEWs develop in order to expose the particular ways in which feminist organizations interact with the world of finance and state institutions. Our analysis…
Stratified and defensive planning democracy: Hearings on objections to plans in nine Israeli cities
This article contributes to the debate on inclusion and democracy in planning by comparing the answers given by five Israeli district committees to objections to planning proposals in nine cities, and by analysing their discourse in terms of socio-spatial inequality. We investigate how the committees’ answers to various professionals and civil actors, and how the type and degree of effort they invest in justifying their decisions, reflect their v…
The uneven geographies of post-political planning: Objections to urban regeneration projects in peripheral and central Israeli cities
This article probes the Israeli 'Clearance and Construction' urban regeneration programme, which encourages apartment owners nationwide to turn their old dwellings into new tower-clusters. By comparing distinct planning communications on such projects, we aim to contribute a class-related perspective to the debate on post-politics in planning. Planning literature addresses the neutralizing effects of the neoliberal ethos on urban regeneration, hi…
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