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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5-24 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Time and Society |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2002 |
Keywords
- Israel time
- migration
- national identity
- nationalism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science