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Under Quarantine : Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate / Rhona Seidelman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 9 b-w imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978808386
  • 9781978808416
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.4/6095694 23
LOC classification:
  • RA655 .S45 2019
  • RA655 .S45 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Barbed Wire -- 1. Confines -- 2. Structure -- 3. Meaning -- 4. Memory -- Conclusion: Under Quarantine -- Epilogue: The Shaar Ha'aliya Memorial for Migrants and Medicine -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha'aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied it by crawling out of the camp and returning at will. Focusing on the conflicts and complications surrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life. Evocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows that we cannot fully understand Israel until we understand Shaar Ha'aliya. The gate of arrival for nearly half a million immigrants - a space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and welcoming - here was the country's crucible.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Barbed Wire -- 1. Confines -- 2. Structure -- 3. Meaning -- 4. Memory -- Conclusion: Under Quarantine -- Epilogue: The Shaar Ha'aliya Memorial for Migrants and Medicine -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha'aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied it by crawling out of the camp and returning at will. Focusing on the conflicts and complications surrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life. Evocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows that we cannot fully understand Israel until we understand Shaar Ha'aliya. The gate of arrival for nearly half a million immigrants - a space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and welcoming - here was the country's crucible.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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