Considers the phenomenon of transnational migration to Israel in a comparative context. This volume contains essays, which explore the large and rapid influx of foreign workers in Israel and how their presence has contributed to major shifts in the local labor economy.

This first-of-a-kind edited collection considers the recent phenomenon of transnational migration to Israel in a comparative context. The essays gathered here explore the large and rapid influx of foreign workers in Israel and how their presence has contributed to major shifts in the local labor economy while also generating complicated legal, policy-related, cultural, and ideological questions and problems.