Dr. Mania Kogan: The educational needs of children of refugees and asylum seekers.
Discussant: Prof. Halleli Pinson, School of Education.
We addressed the association between education, children's rights, and immigration and . asked how educational systems deal with immigrant children that have immigrated or became refugees and how do these children and their families adjust to the educational system in their host country. Based on a test case of elementary schools for refugee children in Uganda, global and local perspectives the educational rights of refugee children were discussed.
Prof. Ilana Rosen: Israeli documentary poetry by immigrants and children of
immigrants on coming of age in the early statehood period
Discussant: Dr. Julia Lerner, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
The presentation featured and discussed a selection of Hebrew poems by Israeli poets who have been immigrants or children of immigrants and who depict in their poems their immigration experiences. The focus was on poems that described the experiences such as wandering or residing in transition camps, encounters with other immigrants and with Israeli schools at that time. Among others, the following poets were discussed: Hertzl Hakak, Lidia Bar-Av, Zvika Shternfeld, Yaara Bar-David, and others.
Dr. Lina Lifshitz-Rozin: The experiences of social workers in culturally matched therapeutic dyads.
Discussant: Dr. Galia Plotkin Amrami, School of Education
The presentation addressed the effects of cultural matching between therapists and patients and the specific case of therapists and patients who are both immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel. Presented were therapists' reactions in this setting: their countertransference and the motion between closeness and distancing from their patients.
Dr. Gitit Broid: Parental experiences of Bukharian immigrants who immigrated to Israel during the nineties
Discussant: Dr. Meni Maka, Department of Social Work
The lecture will present a study of parental experiences of the one-and-a-half generation members of the Bukharan community, who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s from the former Soviet Union. They are ssituated on the crossroads between two cultural worlds, two generations and two parenting models – one a conservative-traditional of their parents and the second a western approach typical to Israel. This research examines how they integrate the two models, how their parental practices change and what do they preserve from the traditional model on which they were raised.
Dr. Yael Gordon: Experiences of British Hosts: Reflections on the Hospitality Practices for Ukrainian Refugees
Discussant: Dr. Noam Tirosh, Department of Communication Studies
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, over 6.74 million Ukrainians have fled their country, with 215,200 resettling in the UK. The UK government called for the help of its citizens through offering to host them temporarily in their homes. Initial contact between the hosts and the refugees was usually made via digital platforms, especially through designated Facebook groups. The study is based on 20 interviews with refugees from Ukraine and focuses on the way the relationships between them and their hosts evolved, first in the digital space and then in encounters in the home space.
Prof. Ortal Slobodin: Stowaways? Mothering and professional identity of Israeli women in relocation.
Discussant: Prof. Halleli Pinson, School of Education
The presentation will address the negotiations between the mothering and the professional identities of Israeli women who relocate to support the professional development of their spouses. The research is based on the is based on the theoretical perspective of “Matricentric feminism” and on the social mandates of contemporary motherhood.
Prof. Haim Maor & Eleonora (Nora) Stanciu: Presenting their book “Nicol”
Discussant: Prof. Ilana Rosen, Department of Hebrew Literature
Moments of hardship and moments of pleasure in the life of Nicolle, an immigrant from Romania, which she remembers on her 80th birthday while she looks through photos, objects, and documents that she keeps from when she immigrated to Israel. Her fictional story is based on narratives of women who shared their life stories with the authors.
