Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins

by Sarah S Willen and Sarah S. Willen

Book Overview

In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied as Ghana and the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, and Ukraine. Although the campaign was billed as a solution to high unemployment, it had another goal as well: to promote an exclusionary vision of Israel as a Jewish state in which non-Jews have no...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224906
• ISBN13: 9780812224900
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"