Conflicts of Quarantine: The Case of Jewish Immigrants to the Jewish State.

• Autores: Rhona D. Seidelman
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 102, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 243-252
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Shaar Haaliya-Israel's Ellis Island during the mass immigration of the 1950s--is a case study that challenges the historian's understanding of the concept of quarantine. It was isolated and fenced off for declared health purposes and was widely referred to as a quarantine, but archival and historiographical documentation suggest that Israeli public health policy did not define it as such. I track the discussion and conflict surrounding Shaar Haaliya's function and perception as a quarantine. This is a story that illuminates the way fear of disease converged with fear of immigration as well as the way defiance of public health institutions took shape in a unique framework of citizenship and during a unique wave of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]