Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context

List of Images vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(30) Sarah S. Willen Part I: Transnational Migration and the Israeli State in Flux: National-Level Perspectives Labor Migration, Managing the Ethno-National Conflict, and Client Politics in Israel 31(20) Rebeca Raijman Adriana Kemp Litigating Citizenship Beyond the Law of Return 51(22) Guy Mundlak Part II: Tel Aviv as Global City: Local and Municipal Perspectives on Transnational Migration Local Migrant Policies in a Guest-worker Regime: The Case of Tel Aviv 73(14) Michael Alexander Migrant Workers' Segregation and Adaption to the Ethnic City: The Case of Tel Aviv 87(16) Itzhak Schnell Part III: Irregular Migration and Health Rights, Citizenship, and the National State: Health Policies Toward Migrant Workers in Comparative Perspective 103(20) Dani Filc Nadav Davidovitch Undocumented Migrant Workers and Access to Health Services in Germany: Points of Comparison to Israel 123(16) Heide Castaneda Asylum Seekers and Trafficked Women---A Comparative Perspective on Health Care Entitlements 139(20) Rami Adout Part IV: Seeking Inhabitable Spaces of Welcome: Ethnographic Perspectives on Undocumented Migrants' Everyday Lives ``Flesh of Our Flesh'': Undocumented Migrant Workers' Search for Meaning in the Wake of a Suicide Bombing 159(26) Sarah S. Willen The Rise and Fall of African Migrant Churches: Transformations in African Religious Discourse and Practice in Tel Aviv 185(18) Galia Sabar Terms of Endearment: Undocumented Domestic Workers and Their Israeli Employers 203(14) Anat Rosenthal Part V: Conclusion Challenging Exclusionary Migration Regimes: Labor Migration in Israel in Comparative Perspective 217(16) Zeev Rosenhek References 233(22) Index 255(10) Contributor Biographies 265