Publisher Statement

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and fall of Palestinian labor flows to Israel between 1967 and 2000. It highlights the interdependence between Israel confiscation of Palestinian land and the use of Palestinian workers, showing how labor migration has been the result of the evolving dynamics of Israeli occupation and reflect a process of redefinition of the 1967 borders. This study analyses the pattern of Palestinian labor supply, the role of Israel territorial and economic policies in the Occupied Territories in releasing Palestinian from the land, and the nature of Israeli demand for Palestinian workers, especially in the construction sector, where the majority of commuting laborers are concentrated. The book is also original in its exploration of the way Israeli economic policies deepen a colonial structure of domination that undermines the possibility for any viable Palestinian state despite the signing of the Oslo peace process. It unravels the economic mechanism of the apartheid reality that deepened since Oslo and left the Palestinian to de facto Bantustans in which they have neither sovereignty nor viable economic growth.