A ghetto state of ghettos: Palestinians under Israeli citizenship.
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Title
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A ghetto state of ghettos: Palestinians under Israeli citizenship.
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Identifier
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AAI3310762
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identifier
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3310762
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Creator
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Boger, Mary.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Stanley Aronowitz
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Date
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2008
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies | Anthropology, Cultural | History, Middle Eastern
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Abstract
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Since the establishment of the State of Israel a body of literature has amassed that deals with the question of the Arabs in Israel. Most researchers start from the empirical reality that Palestinians and Jews in Israel are residentially segregated from each other. Many write of the "culture of separation" that characterizes Israeli society. When treating of Palestinians under Israeli citizenship various social scientists have coined terms such as "entrapped minority" (Gorenberg) or "trapped minority" (Rabinowitz). The anthropologist, Henry Rosenfeld, has referred to the Palestinian enclaves in Israel as "worker dormitories". And some have used the term "ghetto" to describe the Palestinian locales. Most speak of the "isolation", "fragmentation", "separation", "segmentation" of the Palestinians in Israeli society and the state whether in regard to residence, labor markets, civil society or political society.;This dissertation is the first to theorize and empirically study the given segregation and separation characteristic of Israeli society as a case study in the production of social space (Lefebvre) as a process of ghettoization. The specific social practices and relations of production of the Zionist nation building project have produced a ghetto state composed of ghettos. The ghettoization of the Palestinians under Israeli citizenship is situated within the Zionist nation building project which is an on-going process, an unfinished and contentious process of social formation (Gramsci) of a colonial settler society within capitalist development. This story is not yet finished. Since borders remain unresolved Israeli leaders are able to set the conditions de facto for Israel to expand territorially by illegally occupying and annexing more Palestinian land, removing native Palestinians from these lands, settling Jewish Israeli citizen-settlers on these lands, and proletarianizing and ghettoizing those Palestinians within the areas under their control. The Palestinian enclaves in Israel and the expansion of segregated locales in the occupied territories are a contemporary example of ghettoization of a subordinated people-class (Leon). The ghettoization of this population is integral to an understanding of the construction of the Israeli state and society within its specific ethno-national colonialist and capitalist formation within the global capitalist economy (Nitzan and Bichler).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
