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Israeli authorities arrest a migrant worker and her small child [file]. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Family life forbidden for migrant workers in Israel
Legal advocates decry Israeli policies toward migrant workers as inhumane and claim that they violate the laborers’ human right to family. Maris Delusong, a 36-year-old caregiver from the Philippines, is alone at Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station. She stops at a sale rack outside a clothing store. She looks at the baby clothes, pulls a…
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat October 15, 2014
Migrant caretakers march for equal labor rights, Tel Aviv, January 4, 2014. (Photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)
Denied basic labor rights, migrant caregivers take to the streets
The some 60,000 migrant workers who care for Israel’s elderly don’t receive the simplest of labor rights like overtime pay, guaranteed rest hours and vacation, are often locked into a form of debt bondage. By Jacob Udell While thousands of asylum seekers filled up Levinsky Park to organize a three-day general strike Saturday night, a…
By +972 Magazine January 5, 2014
A representative of the Authority of Population and Immigration checks the names of South Sudanese people that are being deported. Tel-Aviv, Israel, August 8, 2012. (Photo: Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
When ‘black’ becomes synonymous with ‘infiltrator’
Israeli society is undergoing a process by which the words ‘Eritrean’ and ‘Sudanese’ are becoming synonymous with the word ‘cleaner,’ while ‘Filipina’ has long ago become synonymous with ‘caregiver.’ And who else is behind the education process if not the Interior Ministry and the Justice Ministry? The job market in Israel has always been divided along nearly…
By Laissez Passer June 13, 2013
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Filipino children at protest against arrest of child of migrant worker (Activestills)
When it comes to migrant workers, Israel’s High Court is all High-Level Babble
The fact that Israel chooses to base its nursing sector on migrant workers and turn the patients into employers does not mean that migrant workers must pay the price. That is, unless one listens to the rulings of the High Court of Justice. Those who do not appear before the High Court of Justice may…
By Laissez Passer March 24, 2013
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