Between Pandemic and War: Teaching Argentine Migration to Israel through Binational Collaboration

This editorial introduces a thematic dossier devoted to Argentine migration to Israel, situating it within broader debates in social psychology, migration studies, and cross-cultural research. While demographic, historical, and sociopolitical analyses of Latin American Jewish migration are well established, the Argentine case remains comparatively understudied from a psychosocial perspective. The dossier advances an agenda focused on subjective, ideological, and affective processes through which migration is experienced, interpreted, and negotiated in contexts of uncertainty, crisis, and conflict. Building on previous exploratory work published in PSocial, the present collection consolidates a cumulative line of inquiry centered on constructs such as event centrality, spirituality, acculturation, fear of death, political identity, and perceived threat. The articles included were developed within a binational pedagogical framework linking the University of Buenos Aires and Tel Aviv University, and reflect the formative aims of research-based teaching under conditions of collective crisis. Taken together, the dossier highlights the contribution of social psychology to understanding migration not only as a structural phenomenon, but as a lived process embedded in meaning-making, identity dynamics, and emotional experience.