TY - JOUR
T1 - The children of Yemen
T2 - Bodies, medicalization, and nation-building
AU - Weiss, Meira
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Yemenite Jews were among the many immigrants from Arab countries who were flown to Israel after its establishment in 1948. Following many complaints regarding the disappearance of Yemenite children from hospitals and schools in the transit camps where the new immigrants were kept in the 1950s, a governmental investigation committee was established in 1995. This article provides a preliminary description, from an anthropological perspective, of what is called in Israel the "Yemenite children affair." My analysis focuses on interviews with Yemenite Jews, describing how the bodies of new immigrants were medicalized and commodified and how immigrants and their families have come to resist these processes. I then focus on the role of the Israeli medical profession in promoting national goals and maintaining collective identity.
AB - Yemenite Jews were among the many immigrants from Arab countries who were flown to Israel after its establishment in 1948. Following many complaints regarding the disappearance of Yemenite children from hospitals and schools in the transit camps where the new immigrants were kept in the 1950s, a governmental investigation committee was established in 1995. This article provides a preliminary description, from an anthropological perspective, of what is called in Israel the "Yemenite children affair." My analysis focuses on interviews with Yemenite Jews, describing how the bodies of new immigrants were medicalized and commodified and how immigrants and their families have come to resist these processes. I then focus on the role of the Israeli medical profession in promoting national goals and maintaining collective identity.
KW - Body
KW - Commodification
KW - Israel
KW - Medicalization
KW - Medicine
KW - Nationalism
KW - Yemenite children
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U2 - 10.1525/maq.2001.15.2.206
DO - 10.1525/maq.2001.15.2.206
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C2 - 11452628
AN - SCOPUS:0035380383
SN - 0745-5194
VL - 15
SP - 206
EP - 221
JO - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
JF - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -