A Theory of Forced Labour Migration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Working for the Enemy

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   Pages 1-33

3. A Historical Background

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   Pages 35-49

4. Palestinian Labour Under Occupation from a Mainstream Perspective

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   Pages 51-72

5. The Gelatinous Neoclassical Paradigm

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   Pages 73-97

6. Structuralism and Migration

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   Pages 99-117

7. Mild Dependency and West Bank Labour

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   Pages 119-134

8. The Practice of Occupation by Sector

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   Pages 135-153

9. The Marxian Perspective

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   Pages 155-190

10. Conclusion: The Future Has Already Happened

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    Pages 191-209

11. Back Matter

    Pages 211-230

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This book focuses on labour dislocation and migration of Palestinians between 1967 and 1992. In particular, it highlights the social transformations in the occupied Palestinian territory where Palestinian labour was permitted to work in Israel from 1968 onwards. Elaborating on the results of the policy which saw a gradual increase in the number of Palestinian workers commuting daily from a negligible proportion of the actively participating labour force, to 35 percent of all employed persons, and 60 percent of all wage paid workers, the book studies this unique case which embodies characteristics from permanent migration situations not only in the de-jure, but also the de-facto sense; insofar as it embeds higher risks and reallocates resources as if it was a permanent relocation scenario. Illustrated with tables and econometric results, the book identifies the determinants and implications of migrant labour from the West Bank using two broad methodologies: the neoclassical and the historical-structural method. Each of these methods is divided into two branches: the classical divided into price determined and a choice-theoretic framework,and the historical-structural divided into dependency and Marxist theory. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the situation, all four perspectives are employed in the investigation. In doing so, what emerges is a structure for the book which takes shape along the different lines of migration literature. The book provides new insights into the making of wage labour and labour migration theory.

• Palestine
• Political economy
• labour migration
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• development economics

• National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  Ali Kadri

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