Managing Global Migration: A Strategy for Immigration Policy in Israel

S. Avineri, L. Orgad, & A. Rubinstein, MANAGING GLOBAL MIGRATION: A STRAGEGY FOR IMMIGRATION POLICY IN ISRAEL, Ruth Gavision, ed., Jerusalem, 2010

108 Pages Posted: 2 Apr 2010 Last revised: 14 Mar 2011

See all articles by Shlomo Avineri

Shlomo Avineri

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Liav Orgad

Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Harry Radziner School of Law; European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS); WZB Berlin Social Science Center; Peking University School of Transnational Law

Amnon Rubinstein

Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Harry Radziner School of Law

Date Written: March 22, 2010

Abstract

Immigration, with its growing scale and significant inherent challenges, is one of the main topics on the agendas of Western democracies. Most countries have formulated systematic policies and made perceptible attempts to adjust their legislation to the changing reality. Israel, which has found it difficult thus far to internalize the fact that is has ceased to be exclusively an aliya country and has become one that also attracts large-scale immigration, has yet to take the requisite actions. Its legislature has not given thought to the enormous changes that have unfolded in Israel and abroad since the early 1950s, when the Law of Return, the Citizenship Law, and the Entry into Israel Law - which regulate entry to, residence in, and the acquisition of citizenship in Israel - were passed. Today, Israel has neither a systematic immigration policy nor a policy toward immigrants. Absent a normative and structural infrastructure and absent adequate legislation, Israel in unprepared to cope with the political, social, security, and economic challenges that its immigrants bring in train. Israel's daunting immigration reality is the blatant outcome of its lack of a coherent policy. In this Position Paper, the authors, for the first time in Israel, propose a strategy for thought and action ahead of the formulation of an immigration policy that promotes Israel's interests as a Jewish and democratic state

Keywords: Immigration, Citizenship, Israel, Nationality

Suggested Citation

Avineri, Shlomo and Orgad, Liav and Rubinstein, Amnon, Managing Global Migration: A Strategy for Immigration Policy in Israel (March 22, 2010). S. Avineri, L. Orgad, & A. Rubinstein, MANAGING GLOBAL MIGRATION: A STRAGEGY FOR IMMIGRATION POLICY IN ISRAEL, Ruth Gavision, ed., Jerusalem, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1576647

Shlomo Avineri

affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )

Liav Orgad (Contact Author)

Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Harry Radziner School of Law ( email )

P.O. Box 167
Herzliya, 46150
Israel

European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) ( email )

Villa La Fonte, via delle Fontanelle 18
50016 San Domenico di Fiesole
Florence, Florence 50014
Italy

HOME PAGE: http://https://www.liavorgad.com

WZB Berlin Social Science Center ( email )

Reichpietschufer 50
Berlin, 10785
Germany

Peking University School of Transnational Law ( email )

Shenzhen
China

Amnon Rubinstein

Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Harry Radziner School of Law ( email )

P.O. Box 167
Herzliya, 46150
Israel

Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?

Paper statistics

Downloads
373
Abstract Views
2,610
Rank
165,126
PlumX Metrics