Doctoral Dissertation Research: Nationalism, Reproduction, and Labor Migration in Israel

本论文的研究项目调查的经验，怀孕和生殖在两个人口最多的，明显不同的，目前在以色列特拉维夫工作的移民工人群体：尼日利亚和菲律宾妇女。 鉴于以色列民族主义的民族宗教犹太人占多数的理想，非犹太移民的生育被视为难以承受的经济负担和对以色列民族完整的威胁。 在这一人种学背景下，这项研究-与医生促进人权开放诊所和梅西拉市援助和信息中心联合进行-通过半结构化访谈、参与者观察和生活史访谈，调查了个别妇女怀孕和为人父母的经历。 调查结果将锚定在一个更广泛的探索微观社会，社会文化和政治经济背景下的移民妇女的生活在外国，往往是不受欢迎的，东道国社会。 本研究通过民族志和理论阐述移民妇女的生物繁殖经验，以及民族主义情绪，人口推测，行政政策和限制，以及跨国劳动力迁移流动之间的动态相互关系，拓宽了全球讨论跨国劳动力迁移。

This dissertation research project investigates experiences regarding pregnancy and reproduction in two of the most populous, and markedly different, groups of migrant workers currently working in Tel Aviv, Israel: Nigerian and Filipina women. Given Israel's nationalist ideal of an ethno-religious Jewish majority, non-Jewish migrants' reproduction is perceived as an unbearable economic burden and a threat to Israeli national integrity. In this ethnographic context, this study--conducted in affiliation with the Physicians for Human Rights Open Clinic and the municipal Mesila Aid and Information Center--investigates individual women's experiences of pregnancy and parenthood through semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and life history interviews. Findings will be anchored in a broader exploration of the microsocial, sociocultural, and political economic contexts of migrant women's lives in a foreign, and often unwelcoming, host society. This study broadens the global discussions regarding transnational labor migration through ethnographic and theoretical elaboration of migrant women's experiences of biological reproduction, and the dynamic interrelationship among nationalist sentiment, demographic speculation, administrative policies and constraints, and transnational labor migration flows.