<i>Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank</i>. By Yael Berda. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.

Erakat, Noura

doi:10.1111/lasr.12407

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“…Investigations of the specific dynamics of state violence and ongoing dispossession are essential for an interrogation of power and expression of solidarity with those in struggle. Colonialism's violence structures space (Fanon, 1965, p. 38) in everyday encounters with bureaucrats and soldiers, at checkpoints and markets (Abowd, 2014; Berda, 2017; Hammami, 2019; Peteet, 2017; Rubaii, 2019; Siegman, 2020). It structures gendered and interreligious relations and reshapes geographies.…”

Section: Decolonizing Scholarshipmentioning

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Decolonizing Middle East anthropology

Bishara

2023

American Ethnologist

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In the anthropology of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), there is an effort underway to decolonize the field. This process is taking shape in academic writing, in academic institutions, in field practices, and among broader publics. It must arise from priorities in the region; it also builds on wider scholarship on race, indigeneity, and militarism. It requires an expansion of the bounds of politics, consideration of who can participate, and reconsideration of what the goals of political action are. It entails working toward liberations that are always plural. Decolonizing SWANA anthropology faces distinct challenges in the field, the university, and publication processes because scholars produce critiques that expose contemporary colonialisms, including those related to the long war on terror, Israeli settler colonialism, and other colonialisms in the region. Thus, scholars equip themselves with tools to confront and transform academic institutions. Collaborative research designed to produce change can be an important part of decolonizing anthropology, but such research is not possible across all settings.

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Section: Decolonizing Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing Middle East anthropology

Bishara

2023

American Ethnologist

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“…The state's control over non-citizen Palestinians changed dramatically in 1991, when free movement was severely curtailed through a new control mechanism, the permit regime (Berda 2017). Established as a reaction to the First Intifada, 4 this regime required that Palestinians obtain work permits to enter Israel, which were subject to extensive controls and easily revoked; moreover, they severely limited Palestinians' ability to move between employers, ''binding'' each worker to a specific employer (with the threat of revocation if terms are violated; Shalev 2017).…”

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“…In return for payment, Palestinian workers acquire (informal) mobility, which increases their power and economic inclusion (interview 13) and reflects the (neo)liberalization of sectoral employment relations. As Adnan and Etkes (2019) showed, this practice improves workers' (gross) wages; however, it also increases their precarity, making them dependent on labor intermediaries and payment of recruitment fees (which reduces net wages) as well as violating the rules of the permit regime, which may result in their exclusion (with the denial of an entry permit) (interviews 11 and 12; see also Berda 2017). One worker noted, ''[With the permit in hand] I get better wages and I can change employers .…”

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Conflicting Imperatives? Ethnonationalism and Neoliberalism in Industrial Relations

Preminger¹,

Bondy²

2022

ILR Review

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Based on a case study of non-citizen Palestinian workers in the Israeli construction sector, this article explores the dynamic relationship between the exclusionary imperative of ethnonationalism and the inclusionary imperative of neoliberalism. The authors argue that these imperatives together constitute a heuristically useful framework that can help to explain the choices of social actors and the constraints on these choices, as well as the apparently contradictory developments that affect industrial relations institutions and the employment relationship more broadly. While neoliberalism generally weakens organized labor, the study shows how the dynamic between these two imperatives can open space for the inclusion of disenfranchised ethnonational groups within collective labor relations—a first step to political empowerment. The study thus re-asserts the importance of organized labor as a powerful actor able to engender progressive change, even for the “ethnonational other” under rigidly ethnonationalistic regimes.

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“…South Africa's apartheid pass law system, as a colonial technology and socio-legal apparatus, laid the foundation for, and has been positioned in relation to, a number of contemporary regimes of racialised labour and movement control globally. Similar to South Africa, the state of Israel's permit regime has its foundations in British Mandate colonial policy (Berda, 2017), and parallels have been drawn 'between the South African "pass laws" and the permit regime that the State of Israel uses to classify, track, and control the movement of Palestinians from the occupied territories' (Clarno, 2017: 4). Hahamovitch (2013: 18) has detailed how South Africa's pass law regime provided a blueprint for a variety of 'guest worker' programmes across the Global North, where states in North America and Europe adopted temporary visa programmes in order to manage 'the desire to admit immigrant workers and the urge to expel them'.…”

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No Pass Laws Here! Internal Border Controls and the Global ‘Hostile Environment’

Medien

2022

Sociology

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This article explores internal border controls in 1980s Britain, examining how they were conceptualised and resisted by a group of activists, the No Pass Laws Here! Group. Drawing on archival research conducted at the Hull History Centre and the Institute of Race Relations and focusing analysis on the Group’s public-facing information leaflets and bulletins, this article explores how internal border controls created differentiated access to employment and the welfare state, targeting migrant and racialised residents and citizens. The No Pass Laws Here! Group’s framing and analysis, in particular their use of pass laws as a frame through which to apprehend the spread of internal border controls, this article argues, allows us to draw out the continuities between policies developed to maintain colonial rule and those present in the metropole.

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Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank. By Yael Berda. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

Decolonizing Middle East anthropology

Decolonizing Middle East anthropology

Conflicting Imperatives? Ethnonationalism and Neoliberalism in Industrial Relations

No Pass Laws Here! Internal Border Controls and the Global ‘Hostile Environment’

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