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The Immigrating Body and the Body Politic: The ‘Yemenite Children Affair’ and Body Commodification in Israel

Hebrew university of Jerusalem.

After its establishment in 1948 many Jews emmigrated to Israel from Arab countries, Yemen included. In 1995, a governmental committee was established to investigate the alleged disappearance of about 1000 Yemenite children from hospitals within transit camps where the new immigrants were kept in the 1950s. Interviews with Yemenites present how the bodies of new immigrants were medicalized and commodified in the transit camps during the mass-immigration period of the 1950s, and how people have come to resist it. I conclude with the role of the Israeli medical profession and biomedical technologies in promoting national goals and as mediators of collective, group and individual identities.

Key Words: commodification • exhumation • genetic testing • mass immigration • medicalization

Body & Society, Vol. 7, No. 2-3, 93-109 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X0100700208


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