Research shows that religion continues to be an important identity marker for new
immigrants in the United States. However, immigrant groups differ in the ways they integrate …

An investigation of the cognitive models underlying ethnic actors' own ideas concerning the
acquisition/transmission of an ethnic status is necessary in order to resolve the outstanding …

The two mass immigrations to Israel are compared, demonstrating the failure of the Mizrahi
immigrants of the 1950s versus the success of the Russian immigrants of the 1990s. Almost …

The collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe brought widespread fear of a'tidal
wave'of immigrants from the East into Western Europe. Quite apart from the social and …

Working from dynamic, strategic, and collective qualities of activity to discussion of the
concept of" Script" in sociological and anthropological literature, this article further develops …

A large number of non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have arrived in
Israel since the late 1980s. This article explores how the Israeli State has responded to this …

Zvi Gitelman he Zionist movement aimed to create both a modern political nation and a
state. It succeeded in the latter and did create a Jewish (and, probably, a Palestinian Arab) …

As part of this Special Issue devoted to research on the Jewish communities in Africa and
their diaspora, we focus on the case of South African Jews who emigrated to Israel. First, we …

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 30-year …

Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding
European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains …