{"product_id":"immigration-to-israel","title":"Immigration to Israel","description":"This eighth volume in the Studies of Israeli Society series presents a broad array of topics related to the sociology of immigration to Israel. The focus is on immigration and migration during the 1980s and 1990s. The chapters were selected from a list of approximately 450 articles on the subject by Israeli sociologists. The book covers such issues as migrants in the occupational structure; migration and health; formal and informal mechanisms of integration; ethnic identities and processes of integration; and processes of migration and their implications.Immigration to Israel opens with two papers written specifically for this volume. The first is a theoretical-historical chapter by the editors. They discuss the role and contribution of Israeli sociologists to the ongoing literature of migration.The second by Sergio DellaPergola, provides a historical and comparative perspective of the underlying demographic characteristics of migration to Israel in the context of global Jewish migration processes.Other chapters and contributors include: \"New Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial Aspirations among Immigrants from the Former USSR in Israel\" by M. Lerner and Y. Hendeles, \"New Immigrants as a Special Group in the Israeli Armed Forces\" by V. Azarya and B. Kimmerling; \"Iranian Ethnicity in Israel\" by J. L. Goldstein; \"Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel\" by S. Kaplan and C. Rosen; 'The Attitudes of Israeli Youth Toward Inter-ethnic and Intra-ethnic Marriage\" by R. Shachar; and \"Jewish Immigrants from Israel in the United States\" by Z. Eisenbach. Immigration to Israel: Sociological Perspectives concludes with a selected bibliography. This volume contains a wealth of information and will be important to sociologists, historians, scholars of Israeli culture, and ethnicity specialists.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247036092760,"sku":"9781560009979","price":61.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781560009979_e700ac8b-c57c-4a78-84b7-725a6421159c.jpg?v=1779426954","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/immigration-to-israel","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}