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A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison WebGoing to Prison

A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison Web: Going to Prison [This chapter discusses the entry into Israeli prisons by focusing on the prison staff. It deals on the one hand with the role of Arab minorities in Israel within the penal and security system. Palestinian and Druze citizens of Israel participate in the Israeli security system; they are numerous in the army, in the police, and among Israel Prison service staff. They are mainly Druze, for whom military service has been compulsory since 1956, unlike for the other Arab citizens of Israel. Moreover, they are made particularly visible to Palestinians as they often occupy positions at the interface between this security system and the Occupied Palestinian population, whether in the security prisons, as army translators and police representatives in military court hearings, or posted at the Al-Aqsa Compound in Jerusalem, at checkpoints, and at the sites of armed confrontation. In addition, this chapter focuses on the other roles and places of Arab minorities in the penal system, notably as lawyers, and inmates also dealing with the Druze of the Golan Heights: the effects of prison interactions on circumventing the management and political construction of these minorities in Israel, and on the contestations of boundaries between social groups and the colonial historical narrative.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison WebGoing to Prison

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-031-08708-0
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45 –77
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10.1007/978-3-031-08709-7_2
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[This chapter discusses the entry into Israeli prisons by focusing on the prison staff. It deals on the one hand with the role of Arab minorities in Israel within the penal and security system. Palestinian and Druze citizens of Israel participate in the Israeli security system; they are numerous in the army, in the police, and among Israel Prison service staff. They are mainly Druze, for whom military service has been compulsory since 1956, unlike for the other Arab citizens of Israel. Moreover, they are made particularly visible to Palestinians as they often occupy positions at the interface between this security system and the Occupied Palestinian population, whether in the security prisons, as army translators and police representatives in military court hearings, or posted at the Al-Aqsa Compound in Jerusalem, at checkpoints, and at the sites of armed confrontation. In addition, this chapter focuses on the other roles and places of Arab minorities in the penal system, notably as lawyers, and inmates also dealing with the Druze of the Golan Heights: the effects of prison interactions on circumventing the management and political construction of these minorities in Israel, and on the contestations of boundaries between social groups and the colonial historical narrative.]

Published: Aug 30, 2022

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