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Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. Sarah S. Willen, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 344 pp.

Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. Sarah S. Willen, Philadelphia:... Book Review Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives Israel. Her methodology can be at Israel’s Margins. Sarah S. Willen, described as “longitudinal listening” Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania (203) yielding “longitudinal insight” Press, 2019, 344 pp. (229). This is not just a longitudinal social science study but one informed by Sa’ed Atshan rich and deep ethnography over a long Swarthmore College period of time. Her ethnographic engagement with these migrant Describing a child watching his mother communities, mainly in South Tel Aviv, collapse onto the ground, Sarah Willen spanned 18 years, from 2000-2018, with writes, “The image of him in that 30 nonconsecutive months in total. moment—his toddler eyes wide, Willen explains that South Tel Aviv is anxious, searching—sticks in me. He inhabited by many Mizrahi populations absorbed the tension like a sponge” (Israelis from Middle Eastern, North (223). Willen’s readers also absorb her African, and Mediterranean Jewish book, Fighting for Dignity, from start to communities) who have had to endure finish, like sponges. She is a medical their own forms of racism in Israel and anthropologist who ethnographically who have had to absorb the migrants captures the experiences of migrant residing in their neighborhoods. Willen communities in Israel. In the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. Sarah S. Willen, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 344 pp.

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City & Society , Volume 32 (3) – Dec 1, 2020
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Book Review Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives Israel. Her methodology can be at Israel’s Margins. Sarah S. Willen, described as “longitudinal listening” Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania (203) yielding “longitudinal insight” Press, 2019, 344 pp. (229). This is not just a longitudinal social science study but one informed by Sa’ed Atshan rich and deep ethnography over a long Swarthmore College period of time. Her ethnographic engagement with these migrant Describing a child watching his mother communities, mainly in South Tel Aviv, collapse onto the ground, Sarah Willen spanned 18 years, from 2000-2018, with writes, “The image of him in that 30 nonconsecutive months in total. moment—his toddler eyes wide, Willen explains that South Tel Aviv is anxious, searching—sticks in me. He inhabited by many Mizrahi populations absorbed the tension like a sponge” (Israelis from Middle Eastern, North (223). Willen’s readers also absorb her African, and Mediterranean Jewish book, Fighting for Dignity, from start to communities) who have had to endure finish, like sponges. She is a medical their own forms of racism in Israel and anthropologist who ethnographically who have had to absorb the migrants captures the experiences of migrant residing in their neighborhoods. Willen communities in Israel. In the

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