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IMISCOE Web Directory - Ilan Amit

First Name

Ilan

Middle Name/Infix

Last Name

Amit

City

Amsterdam

Country

Netherlands

Current Employer

University Amsterdam

Function

PhD-student

Discipline

Anthropology

Biography

Ilan Amit is a PhD candidate in the University of Amsterdam. He received his B.A in Geography and Environmental development and M.A in Urban Planning from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Ilan had done extensive work in the field of development as part of Israel’s civil society and human rights organisations.

As a member of the research project “The Social Life of State Deportation Regimes”, Ilan is responsible for the research conducted in Israel - Palestine. He explores the treatment of irregular migrants in Israel during registration, detention, deportation and coerced ‘voluntary return’. His research focuses on the experience of various governmental agencies, street – level agents and civil – society actors. Ilan’s research seeks to understand the mutual constituency existing between the ‘external’ management of the Palestinian population in the West bank and the ‘internal’ management of irregular migrants by the state of Israel.

Ilan’s research interests include anthropology of the state, irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, civil society in Israel - Palestine and contemporary colonialism.

Projects

SOLIDERE - Social Life of State Deportation Regimes

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Keywords

Asylum, Migration policy, Refugees, Social exclusion

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