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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear Colleagues,<br>
The CaMP virtual reading group is starting up again in a week:
Alejandro Paz<br>
will visit virtually to talk about his new book, <i>Latinos in
Israel: Language and Unexpected</i><i><br>
</i><i>Citizenship</i>.<br>
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The reading group meets virtually on the last Friday of every
month<br>
from 1-2 East Coast time (US EST).<br>
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If you would like to be on the listserv to get the Zoom link and a
link<br>
to the chapter we read to prepare for the conversation with the
author,<br>
please email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:campanthropology@gmail.com">campanthropology@gmail.com</a><br>
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To see the CaMP reading group schedule, click here:<br>
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Blurb of Alejandro Paz's book:<br>
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<p><em>Latinos in Israel</em><span> </span>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.</p>
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