[Linganth] CaMP virtual reading group starts up again

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
The CaMP virtual reading group is starting up again in a week: Alejandro Paz
will visit virtually to talk about his new book, /Latinos in Israel: 
Language and Unexpected//
//Citizenship/.

The reading group meets virtually on the last Friday of every month
from 1-2 East Coast time (US EST).

If you would like to be on the listserv to get the Zoom link and a link
to the chapter we read to prepare for the conversation with the author,
please email:  campanthropology at gmail.com

To see the CaMP reading group schedule, click here:

https://campanthropology.org/virtual-reading-group/

Blurb of Alejandro Paz's book:

/Latinos in Israel/charts the unexpected ways that non-citizen 
immigrants become potential citizens. In the late 1980s Latin Americans 
of Christian background started arriving in Israel as labor migrants. 
Alejandro Paz examines the ways they perceived themselves and were 
perceived as potential citizens during an unexpected campaign for 
citizenship in the mid-2000s. This ethnographic account describes the 
problem of citizenship as it unfolds through language and language use 
among these Latinos both at home and in public life, and considers the 
different ways by which Latinos were recognized as having some of the 
qualities of citizens. Paz explains how unauthorized labor migrants 
quickly gained certain limited rights, such as the right to attend 
public schools or the right to work. Ultimately engaging Israelis across 
many such contexts, Latinos, especially youth, gained recognition as 
citizens to Israeli public opinion and governing politics. Paz 
illustrates how language use and mediatized interaction are 
under-appreciated aspects of the politics of immigration, citizenship, 
and national belonging.


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