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This
book deals with ethnic formation among the 1990s immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, in light of both domestic
changes and developments in the Israel-Arab conflict. Based on a broad
variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book presents a detailed
analysis of identity patterns among these immigrants, their orientation in
matters of religion, society, culture and politics, and their relationships
with all the constituent groups in Israeli Society - including the
Palestinian minority.
The book provides a new critical
perspective on questions of immigration, ethnicity and society in Israel. The analysis is placed in a
global theoretical context that challenges the dominant approach in the
sociology of immigration in Israel, which is based on the Zionist
paradigm.
Majid Al-Haj, Ph.D. (1984) in sociology, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Center
for Multiculturalism at the University of Haifa. He has published extensively on
demography, ethnicity and education, including Education, Empowerment
and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel (SUNY, 1995).
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