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.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Women in Global Labor Market
- Place-Making in Transnational Migration
- Existing Studies in the Israeli Context
- Locating My Research in Israel
- Progressing Through the Chapters to Come
- Bibliography
- 1. Between a “National Hero” and a “Global Servant”
- Migrating from the Philippines to Work
- Migration Journey to Israel
- Foreign Workers in Israel
- Bibliography
- 2. “Unsettled Settlers” in South Tel Aviv
- Emergence of a Migrant Neighborhood
- Mapping out Filipino Society
- Bibliography
- 3. Flat as a Nodal Site in the Mobile Circuit
- Organizing the Flat as a Shared Accommodation
- Dynamic Construction of the Flat
- Settlement of Transient Permanence
- Bibliography
- 4. Networking Through Weekend Rituals
- Mealtime Socialization: Dinner on Day-off
- Birthday Celebrations: The Banquet and Exchange of Gifts
- Paluwagan
- Bibliography
- 5. Seeking a Shelter Behind Gate
- Life in “Border Place”
- Making Love in Liminal Phase
- Paradox of Sheltering
- Bibliography
- Conclusion: Creating an “Imagined Community” in Displacement
- Reflections on and Beyond Community and Boundaries
- Intertwining Place Attachment and Mobility
- Interplay of Migrant Agency and Structure
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Maps
- Map 1. Israel
- Map 2. Southern Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv
- Figures
- Figure 1. Recruitment process flow
- Figure 2. Permits issued according to employment sectors 1996–2012
Source: Kemp and Raijman (2014, p. 612)
- Figure 3. An Israeli employer and his Filipino care worker
- Figure 4. A view of Tel Aviv City from an apartment rooftop in Neve Sh’anan
- Figure 5. Levinsky Park on a Saturday afternoon (2011). Photo by author
- Figure 6. Beds in Jane’s flat. Photo by author
- Figure 7. Carriers in the room of Grace’s flat. Photo by author
- Figure 8. Payment in detail for June 2010 in Jane’s flat. Photo by author
- Figure 9. Payment in detail for August 2010 in Liza’s flat. Photo by author
- Tables
- Table 1. Profiles of the Flats from Fieldwork
- Table 2. Deployment of OFWs by Place of Work and Sex, 2022
- Table 3. Salary and Brokerage Fee of Migrant Care Workers in Israel (2007–2019)
- Table 4. Status of Temporary Migrant Workers, 2011–2021
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