Israel's African question: Israelis, in particular, should know that migration is a fact of global society.

July 24, 2012

Article By Craig D. Smith | Published in Haaretz |July 20, 2012

Some 60,000 Africans have crossed the Egyptian border into Israel over the past five years, most of them from Eritrea. Like the world’s other 30 to 40 million “irregular” migrants, they came uninvited, and Israeli society has largely decided they are an unwelcome addition to an already fractured cultural landscape. There are no channels for integration under Israel’s Jewish-only citizenship…

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Craig D. Smith is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.