Filipino Care Workers in Israel

Migration, Trans-local Livelihoods and Space
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-17928-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Diaspora in Asia and Beyond

This book traces the construction of migrant space in Israel’s urban periphery with a focus on the flat that Filipino care workers co-rent for their day-off and provides insight into the migrant lives and journeys in trans-local contexts. The author selects the flat not only as the central field site for fieldwork but also as an analytical lens for grasping the various social networks and the formation of new identities. Offering a repertoire of migrants’ own narratives, she shows how the flat, as a microcosm of societal constellations of networks, provides opportunities for all sorts of new experiences. The groundbreaking ethnography contributes to migration scholarship by opening up avenues of analysis for space, community, and boundary-making in displacement and provides comprehensive insight into the dynamics of transnational labor migration. This provocative volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of migration studies, urban studies, and more broadly to anthropology and gender studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lim, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. Between a 'National Hero' and a 'Global Servant', 2. 'Unsettled Settlers' in South Tel Aviv, 3. Flat as a Nodal Site in the Mobile Circuit, 4. Networking through Weekend Rituals, 5. Seeking a Shelter behind Gate, Conclusion: Creating an 'Imagined Community' in Displacement, Acknowledgements, Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Lim is a Senior Researcher of Institute of Social Sciences at Kangwon National University, South Korea. She is an anthropologist with interests in labor migration, space, and citizenship issues. She is currently conducting research on the labor migration between the Philippines and South Korea.