Liberté, Egalité, Islamité: Coping strategies of female immigrants from the Maghreb in France

Kalev, Henriette Dahan; Marzel, Shoshana-Rose

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2012.07.003

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“…Arab-Americans have concentrated in retail small businesses, but lacked social coherence and have not developed ethnic enclave or middleman minority attributes (Kulczycki and Lobo 2001). Maghrabi female immigrants in France fared better in education and job attainment than their male counterparts, although facing a 'double trap' of community isolation coupled with constraints of tradition and religion (Dahan Kalev and Marzel 2012). Such experiences of Muslims in European and North American cities can provide comparative insights to the case of Jerusalem, but Israeli-Palestinian migrants in Jerusalem are different.…”

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Israeli-Palestinian Migrants in Jerusalem: An Emerging Middleman Minority

Masry-Herzallah¹,

Razin²

2013

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The increased tendency of Israeli-Palestinians to migrate to Jerusalem, despite internal and external barriers for their migration to Israel's large cities, is examined through a survey of 201 migrants. The role of higher education institutions as an initial pull factor explains their highly educated profile, but opportunities as a middleman minority between Israel and East Jerusalem Palestinians, who lack Israeli citizenship, are prime motives for staying in the city, despite limited housing and schooling choices, associated with not being identified with either Jewish or Palestinian Jerusalem. Although diverging from traditional middleman minorities, in their white-collar public and professional service concentrations and in serving a coethnic group, middleman attributes of Israeli-Palestinians in Jerusalem are most profound, based on being bilingual and possessing necessary formal credentials. Their case serves to broaden the context for the application of the middleman minority concept and to demonstrate the potential and limitations of middleman functions.

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Section: The Context Of Israeli-palestiniansmentioning

confidence: 98%