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Citizenship Betrayed: Israel's Emerging Immigration and Citizenship Regime

Published/Copyright: May 29, 2007
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Theoretical Inquiries in Law
From the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law Volume 8 Issue 2

In this Article I argue that the citizenship status of Israel’s Palestinian citizens has been eroding since the "events" of October 2000 and that, as a result, Israel, within its rpe-1967 borders, may be moving from a form of democracy that has been termed "ethnic democracy" towards a form of non-democratic state that has been termed "ethnocracy." My argument is based primarily on two legal documents: the new Citizenship and Entry into Israel (Temporary Order) Law, 2003, which denies Palestinian citizens the right to unite with their closest family members who are residents of the Occupied Territories, and the decision of the High Court of Justice that upheld the constitutionality of this law in 2006. Two other developments that seem to support my thesis are analyzed as well: the "events" of October 2000 themselves and the report of the state commission of inquiry that investigated these events (the Or Commission), and the plan, advanced by Yvette Lieberman and his political party, "Yisrael Beytenu," to shift the border between Israel and the West Bank westward, depriving tens of thousands of citizen-Palestinians of their Israeli citizenship.

Published Online: 2007-5-29

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  1. Article
  2. Who Is the Citizen's Other? Considering the Heft of Citizenship
  3. The Worth of Citizenship in an Unequal World
  4. Being Here: Ethical Territoriality and the Rights of Immigrants
  5. Spheres of Citizenship
  6. Why European Citizenship? Normative Approaches to Supranational Union
  7. Citizenship with a Vengeance
  8. Advancing Citizenship: The Legal Armory and Its Limits
  9. The Citizen and the Migrant: Postcolonial Anxieties, Law, and the Politics of Exclusion/Inclusion
  10. The Culture of Citizenship
  11. Citizenship Betrayed: Israel's Emerging Immigration and Citizenship Regime
  12. (In)Security and Citizenship: Security, Im/migration and Shrinking Citizenship Regimes
  13. Managing Migration, Reprioritizing National Citizenship: Undocumented Migrant Workers' Children and Policy Reforms in Israel
  14. Why Citizenship: Where, When and How Children?
  15. Industrial Citizenship, Social Citizenship, Corporate Citizenship: I Just Want My Wages
https://doi.org/10.2202/1565-3404.1162

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Article
  2. Who Is the Citizen's Other? Considering the Heft of Citizenship
  3. The Worth of Citizenship in an Unequal World
  4. Being Here: Ethical Territoriality and the Rights of Immigrants
  5. Spheres of Citizenship
  6. Why European Citizenship? Normative Approaches to Supranational Union
  7. Citizenship with a Vengeance
  8. Advancing Citizenship: The Legal Armory and Its Limits
  9. The Citizen and the Migrant: Postcolonial Anxieties, Law, and the Politics of Exclusion/Inclusion
  10. The Culture of Citizenship
  11. Citizenship Betrayed: Israel's Emerging Immigration and Citizenship Regime
  12. (In)Security and Citizenship: Security, Im/migration and Shrinking Citizenship Regimes
  13. Managing Migration, Reprioritizing National Citizenship: Undocumented Migrant Workers' Children and Policy Reforms in Israel
  14. Why Citizenship: Where, When and How Children?
  15. Industrial Citizenship, Social Citizenship, Corporate Citizenship: I Just Want My Wages
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