IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mig/journl/v17y2020i1p91-101.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Towards an Emerging Distinction between State and People: Return Migration Programs, Diaspora Management and Agentic Migrants

Author

Listed:
  • Dani Kranz

    (Two Foxes Consulting, Germany Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Germany)

Abstract

While Jewish immigration to the State of Israel is a key component of Zionist ideology, emigration has been discouraged and vilified. Yet, Israeli Jewish citizens have been leaving throughout. This paper chronicles the approaches of the State of Israel towards its citizen diaspora, which shifted from rejection to the realisation of Israelis abroad as a fait accompli, and a resource for the state. At the same time, it depicts the self-organisation of Israeli citizens abroad, and their on-going ties to the State of Israel, even if they are highly critical of it. To elaborate on this dialectic, the paper zooms in on Israeli citizens in Germany. In consequence, I argue that the secularised notion of the ‘love for the Jewish people’ (ahavat yisrael) can be extended to ahava be’ad ha’medinat yisrael (love for the State of Israel) in the present to conceptualise the on-going relationship of Israeli citizens abroad to Israel, and its implementation by the state.

Suggested Citation

  • Dani Kranz, 2020. "Towards an Emerging Distinction between State and People: Return Migration Programs, Diaspora Management and Agentic Migrants," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 17(1), pages 91-101, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:17:y:2020:i:1:p:91-101
    DOI: 10.33182/ml.v17i1.770
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.tplondon.com/index.php/ml/article/view/770/701
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.33182/ml.v17i1.770?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Zhao, Zhenyue & Bu, Yi & Kang, Lele & Min, Chao & Bian, Yiyang & Tang, Li & Li, Jiang, 2020. "An investigation of the relationship between scientists’ mobility to/from China and their research performance," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 14(2).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:17:y:2020:i:1:p:91-101. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ML (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.migrationletters.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.