Demographic trends, pronatalism, and nationalist ideologies in the late twentieth century

‘National mission’: biopolitics, non-Jewish immigration and Jewish conversion policy in contemporary Israel

“…Biopolitics, non-Jewish immigration and Jewish conversion policy 751 An abundant body of scholarly literature has shown how these policies have been employed in the name of national-Zionist ideologies (see, for example, Portugese 1998;Kahn 2000;King 2002;Kimmerling 2004). However, this article is the first to explore state conversion policy as an axis of Jewish national biopolitics.…”

“…Scholars have long recognized the role of population policy, especially in the areas of reproduction and immigration, in sustaining racial, ethnic and national ideologies, as well as in both imagining and constituting the social body (Teitelbaum and Jay 1998;King 2002). However, these theoretical terms have generally not been applied in analyses of conversion.…”

Fertility Politics as “Social Viagra”: Reproducing Boundaries, Social Cohesion, and Modernity in Italy

“…The baby bonus is available to any EU citizen despite attempts by the Alleanza Nazionale party to restrict baby bonus eligibility to Italian citizens. The law follows a trend of pronatalist policies as ethnically inclusive contingent on citizenship (King 2002); even so, minority groups' experiences of demographic policies can be unequal (see Kanaaneh 2002).…”

Politiche della morte e concezioni della vita in Palestina: Rassegna di studi

“…II successo di queste politiche 6 stato modesto, anche perch6 esse si sono scontratemettendole a nudo -con le contraddizioni in cui da sempre si dibatte lo stato israeliano, che da una parte si proclama democratico ma dall'altra discrimina i suoi cittadini in base a criteri etnici e religiosi (Goldscheider 1996: 220;King 2001King , 2002. L'impegno profuso in queste politiche d6 tuttavia un'idea dell'importanza assunta in Israele da quella che viene di solito definita demographic race (Yuval-Davis 1989), una corsa soggetta a regole non uguali per tutti e per la quale si usa spesso la piO ruvida espressione "guerra demografica".…”