Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers a detailed examination of the absorption of Soviet emigrants in Israel during the years 1967 to 1985. Factors that account for these immigrants' successful economic absorption are included as well as a study of their social and cultural absorption.
Trade ReviewThis is an important book. It is a valuable addition to migration literature, for it examines a vastly different population and discovers new labor market impediments to immigrant absorption. * International Migration Review *
A useful collection of articles on the absorption processes of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union in Israel based on serious research; readable; valuable for students and the general reader interested in Jewish life in the Soviet Union and in Israeli society, as well as changes taking place of Soviet man in an open society. -- Prof. Mondecha: Altshuler, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem * International Migration Review *
...unrivalled by anything else available so far in its detailed and fascinating panorama... -- Peter Juviler, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, New York, NY * International Migration Review *
...recommended to behavioral specialists who are interested, from a sociological or social psychological perspective, in the problems of social adaptation posed by immigration. * Perspectives on Political Science *
...recommended to behavioral specialists who are interested, from a sociological or social psychological perspective, in the problems of social adaptation posed by immigration. * Perspectives on Political Science *
This is an important book. It is a valuable addition to migration literature, for it examines a vastly different population and discovers new labor market impediments to immigrant absorption. * International Migration Review *
A useful collection of articles on the absorption processes of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union in Israel based on serious research; readable; valuable for students and the general reader interested in Jewish life in the Soviet Union and in Israeli society, as well as changes taking place of Soviet man in an open society. -- Prof. Mondecha: Altshuler, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem * International Migration Review *
...unrivalled by anything else available so far in its detailed and fascinating panorama... -- Peter Juviler, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, New York, NY * International Migration Review *
Table of ContentsThe process of emigration; economic and occupational behaviour (general and case studies); social and political integration; Jews from Georgia.
