Title The Russians in Israel : a new ethnic group in a tribal society / Majid Ibrahim Al-Haj

Edition First edition Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies on the Arab-Israeli conflict ; 27 Routledge studies on the Arab-Israeli conflict ; 27. Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Immigration, diversity, and conflict; This monograph; Methodology; The current study; The immigrants' survey; Survey of the general population; Focus groups; Comparison with the earlier study; 1 Theoretical framework; Immigration and reconstruction of ethnic identity; Multiculturalism; Multicultural policies toward indigenous groups, national minorities, and immigrants; The retreat of multiculturalism 'Multiculturalism without culture' and 'individual multiculturalism'Tribalism and tribal identities; 2 Israel as a deeply divided society: multiculturalism versus tribalism; The Jewish-Arab divide; Background; Policy toward the Palestinian Arabs in Israel; Immigration and ethnic divide among the Jewish population in Israel; Ethnicity as a sociocultural rift; The modernization-establishment approach; The melting-pot ideology; Counterapproaches to ethnic relations; Ethnicity and the religious-nonreligious divide; Religious-nonreligious relations; The Arab Spring and the social rift in Israel Multiculturalism versus tribal identities in Israeli societyMilitaristic culture; A majority with a 'minority phobia'; A minority with a 'sense of majority'; Ideology and orientation of religious groups; Anti-multicultural policy; The rise of 'tribalism'; 3 Jewish immigration to Palestine-Israel and the waves of immigration from Russia and the former Soviet Union: a background; A background of Jews in Russia and the FSU; Official policy toward Jews in the Soviet Union; Emigration by Russian/Soviet/FSU Jews; The first waves to Palestine; Immigration after the establishment of Israel Immigration and the proportion of Jews in Israel as compared to the worldImmigration and ethnic divisions; Waves of immigrants from the Soviet Union; The 1970s wave; Ethiopia: a new reservoir of immigrants; Aspirations for aliya from the West; The 1990s wave; Main trends; Differences between the 1970s and the 1990s waves; 4 The politics of identity among immigrants and their location within the ethnic map of Israel; Theoretical framework; Definition of ethnic group; Ethnicity in Israel; The position of Soviet immigrants within the ethnic map in Israel Identity patterns among Soviet immigrantsMain approaches regarding ethnic formation among Russian immigrants; Objective elements: history and collective memory of Russian immigrants; Behavioral elements of immigrants in Israel; Subjective factors: ethnic consciousness and sense of solidarity; Self-identification; Other identification; 5 Political behavior and the activation of ethnic boundaries; Theoretical framework; Background: ethnic politics in Israel; The voting behavior of Russian immigrants; Findings of the 1999 and 2010 surveys; Factors affecting voting behavior Summary "This book constitutes the first systematic and critical discussion of questions of immigration and society in Israel from a global perspective. The comprehensive study covers the thirty-year period since the beginning of the immigrant influx from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s and incorporates data based on a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods. It provides an important opportunity to examine identity and patterns of adaptation among immigrants, with the added perspective afforded by the passage of time. Moreover, it sheds light on the Russians' cumulative influence on Israeli society and on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Considering all groups within Israeli society, it covers Palestinian-Arab citizens in Israel who have almost never been included in analyses addressing questions of Jewish immigration to Israel. Multiculturalism is the central theoretical framework of this study, alongside specific theoretical considerations of ethnic formation, political mobilization among ethnic groups, and immigration and conflict in deeply divided societies. However, whilst Jewish-Arab relations in Israel are typically analyzed in the context of majority-minority relations, this book offers a pioneering approach that analyses these relations within the context of a Jewish majority with a minority phobia and an Arab minority with a sense of regional majority. Addressing existing and anticipated influences of Russian immigrants on politics, culture and social structures in Israel, as well as the Israel-Palestinian conflict, The Russians in Israel will be useful to students and scholars of Middle Eastern politics and society"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-231) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Multiculturalism -- Israel Jews, Russian -- Israel -- identity Jews, Soviet -- Israel -- identity Palestinian Arabs -- Israel -- Social conditions Arab-Israeli conflict. Minorities -- Israel SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Arab-Israeli conflict Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations Minorities Multiculturalism Palestinian Arabs -- Social conditions SUBJECT Israel -- Ethnic relations Israel -- Emigration and immigration Former Soviet republics -- Emigration and immigration Russia -- Emigration and immigration Subject Israel Russia Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics Form Electronic book LC no. 2019716426 ISBN 1351025686 1351025708 1351025678 9781351025690 1351025694 9781351025683 9781351025706 9781351025676

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