Whose children?  The status of children of migrant workers in Israel.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: University of Toronto. -- Faculty of Law -- Dissertations.; Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Israel.; Migrant labor -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Israel.
Description: This thesis considers the underlying trends which have brought non-Jewish migrant labourers and their families to live in Israel, a country with an immigration regime highly preferential towards Jewish immigrants, and restrictive towards others. Rather than discussing the circumstances of employment of the migrant labourers in Israel, I shall be concerned in this paper with reviewing the status of the migrant labourers' children. In particular, I analyse the accountability of Israel for the plight of this group of migrants, and the potential within Israel for the development of a mechanism through which full membership of the Israeli state might be granted to them. Israel is a fascinating country in which to study the impact of a nation's membership definition in a modern immigration context, whereby the reality of residence diverges from a theoretical membership model and leaves increasing numbers of residents without formal status.
Notes: Adviser:  Audrey Macklin.

Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, page: 0725.

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