TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hertzog,Esther
AU  - Marx,Emanuel
TI  - Immigrants and Bureaucrats: Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center 
T2  - New Directions in Anthropology
SN  - 9781571819413
AV  - DS113.8.F34 H4813 1999
U1  - 362.87/08992805694 21
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Israel
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Services for
KW  - Jews, Ethiopian
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Refugee and Migration Studies, Anthropology (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; LIST OF HEBREW TERMS AND ISRAELI ORGANIZATIONS --; Map of Israel --; Map of Galuyot Absorption Center --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. THE CENTER AS A DEPENDENT SYSTEM --; 2. CLOSURE AND EMERGENCE OF POWER-DEPENDENCE RELATIONS --; 3. THE ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRANTS AS A SOCIAL CATEGORY AND SOCIAL PROBLEM --; 4. SOCIAL CLOSURE AND POWER-DEPENDENCE RELATIONSHIPS AT THE GALUYOT ABSORPTION CENTER --; 5. CATEGORIZING WOMEN An Example of Bureaucratic Influence on Family Organization --; 6. THE ROLE OF CULTURAL EXPLANATIONS IN GENDER-BASED RELATIONS --; CONCLUSION --; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Since Israel is primarily a country of immigrants, the state takes on the responsibility for the settlement and integration of each new group. It therefore sees its role as benevolent and indispensable to the welfare of the immigrants. This be true to some extent. However, the overwhelming effect, the author argues, is exactly the opposite: in her study of Ethiopian immigrants she reaches the conclusion that the absorption centers, which are central to Israeli immigration policy, present an extreme case of bureaucratic control over immigrants; they hinder rather than facilitate integration through the creation of power-dependence relations, with immigrants - whose lives and social structures are constantly interfered with by the officials - being cast as weak, defenseless and needy. They are reduced to helpless charges of these officials whose main goals are to expand and perpetuate their respective organizations and to consolidate their own positions within them. Thus the absorption centers, rather than furthering integration, create dependence on state control and social segregation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389361?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782389361
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782389361/original
ER  -