JEWISH DIASPORAS AND MIGRANT SETTLERS ON THE WEST BANK PHD DISSERTATION BY DANNY RAYMOND ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY & DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STU DIES 2011 CONTENTS Chapter 1 ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 The Journey begins ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Background .................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Theoretical Approaches ....................................................................................................................................................... 11 Fields of research ................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Chapter 2 ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Theory .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Why identity? ........................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Individualization and globalization ................................................................................................................................ 19 Identity and identification .................................................................................................................................................. 21 Community ................................................................................................................................................................................ 29 Diaspora ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Diaspora strategies ................................................................................................................................................................ 38 Diaspora: Institutions and Organizations .................................................................................................................... 43 Long-distance nationalism and ontological security ............................................................................................... 50 Security ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 53 Ontological security ............................................................................................................................................................... 55 Narratives .................................................................................................................................................................................. 57 Social types................................................................................................................................................................................ 61 Chapter 3 ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 65 Methodology .................................................................................................................................................................................. 65 Pre-introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................... 65 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................. 66 1 A short summary of the main theoretical areas and how and why they will be used ............................... 67 Methodology: fieldwork methods, interview techniques and research actors ............................................ 71 Interviewees and actors chosen for the research ................................................................................................ 73 Chapter 4 ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 89 Setting the field of inquiry ....................................................................................................................................................... 89 Setting the scene for the migrant settlers: Who are they and who were they? ............................................ 90 Religious identity amongst Anglo-Saxon Jews ........................................................................................................... 92 Political and national identity amongst Anglo-Saxon Jews .................................................................................101 Jewish diaspora organizations, learning institutions, youth and Aliyah organizations ..........................111 Security .....................................................................................................................................................................................119 Chapter 5 .......................................................................................................................................................................................128 Case stories ..................................................................................................................................................................................128 Chapter 5A - Laura Ben David March 2004 (Neve Daniel)..................................................................................128 Chapter 5B - Avi Hyman May 2004 (London) ..........................................................................................................154 Chapter 5C - Jamie Ben David November 2005 (Maale Adumim) ...................................................................192 Chapter 5D - Shaya and Miryam Heiliczer November 2005 (Kochav Yaakov) ...........................................235 Chapter 5E - Summary of the first analytical part ..................................................................................................272 Chapter 6 .......................................................................................................................................................................................287 Analytical chapter .....................................................................................................................................................................287 Religious identity ..................................................................................................................................................................290 Political-nationalist identity ............................................................................................................................................297 The process of radicalization amongst Migrant settlers, their present outlook on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict on; Borders, activism, violence etc. .......................................................................307 Homeland-related diaspora organizations ................................................................................................................310 Homeland-related learning institutions .....................................................................................................................312 Zionist youth organizations .............................................................................................................................................314 Security .....................................................................................................................................................................................318 The social types .....................................................................................................................................................................322 2 Analysing the empirical material as filtered through the social types ...........................................................326 Chapter 7 .......................................................................................................................................................................................341 Conclusion