INTEGRATION PATTERNS OF ROMANIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE ISRAELI SOCIETY: SOCIOPOLITICAL ASPECTS

• Main Author: Adina BABEŞ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest 2013-06-01
• Series: Romanian Journal of Society and Politics
• Online Access: http://rjsp.politice.ro/files/June2013/babes.pdf

This paper comprises parts of the theoretical and empirical research that I have conducted for my PhD studies. The theoretical structure focuses on the evaluative framework of capabilities, as it has been developed by Martha Nussbaum and the social and political aspects of Thomas Janoski’s operationalization of citizenship. The analytical framework that I came up with was further applied on the interviews that I have conducted with Romanian olim in Israel. This allowed me to come up with significant results concerning their integration within the Israeli society. These results cover aspects that belong to areas of one’s social, political, cultural life. The empirical research itself was a qualitative one with semi-structured interviews, while the results were further analyzed using the discourse analysis method.