Public attitudes toward policies related to labor migrants in Israel |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Business Administration at Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer 4025000, Israel;2. Institute for Immigration & Social Integration at Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer 4025000, Israel;3. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel;4. Economics and Management Department, Ruppin Academic Center, Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, Israel;1. Institute of Psychiatry, King''s College, London, UK;2. Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, Fundação do ABC, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil;3. Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;4. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciences, National University of Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay;5. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia 71121, Italy;1. Associate Professor, Community Medicine, Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, India;2. Assistant Professor, Medicine, AIIMS, Bhopal, India;3. Associate Professor, Medicine, Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, India;4. Statistician, Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, India;1. Chair on Systems Science and the Energetic Challenge, Fondation Electricité de France at CentraleSupeléc, Châtenay-Malabry Cedex, France;2. CentraleSupeléc, Department of Power & Energy Systems, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France;3. Politecnico di Milano, Energy Department, Milan, Italy;1. Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK;2. British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, UK;1. Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;2. Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | This paper focuses on determinants of public attitudes in Israel toward two policy questions. First, should immigration policy measures be more restrictive toward overseas labor migrants? Secondly, should overseas labor migrants be replaced with Palestinian workers? Based on an attitudinal survey administered to a representative sample of the Israeli population, the findings indicate that support for a restrictive immigration policy is quite prevalent among Israelis. However, the survey reveals only moderate consent for replacing overseas labor migrants with Palestinian commuters. Attitudes toward a restrictive immigration policy are explained by the perceived threat posed by overseas labor migrants to social and economic interests. This threat is explained by the respondents’ socio-economic characteristics. Attitudes toward the replacement policy are partially explained by the sense of threat to the Jewish character of the state posed by overseas migrants, but are also attributed to several personal characteristics. Policy implications of these findings are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Labor migrants Palestinian workers Exclusionary attitudes Competitive threat Immigration policy |
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