Belonging Through Time: Nurturing National Identity Among Newcomers to Israel from the Former Soviet Union

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Abstract

This article addresses the links between national identity, temporal order, and the re-socialization of migrants. Anchored in an ethnographic account of encounters between Israeli Jews and migrants from the former Soviet Union, it looks at ways in which temporal re-ordering was rendered crucial to the moral transformation required of the newcomers. A close look at these encounters reveals that at the heart of this re-socialization project lay the endeavour to link the lives of the newcomers with the life of the Israeli nation-state by persuading them to bracket off their present circumstances in favour of a shared, imagined, past and future.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-24
Number of pages20
JournalTime and Society
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2002

Keywords

  • Israel time
  • migration
  • national identity
  • nationalism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Sociology and Political Science

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