Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture-Book Discussion

"This timely book traces the origins and significance of Thai labor in Israel. Kaminer, an anthropologist, lived on a moshav, or cooperative agricultural settlement, in southern Israel that employs Thai agricultural workers. He also traveled to northeastern Thailand, where many of those workers come from. He traces the changing face of agricultural production in Israel as early socialist commitments to fostering Jewish labor on the land—and displacing Palestinian Arabs from their farms—gave way to the imperatives of Israel’s growing industrial and conventionally capitalist economy. Israel helped support paramilitary settlements in Thai border areas in the 1980s, a project that eventually led to an intricate system of labor migration, initially through private brokers and eventually through a bilateral agreement that governs Thai laborers and their Israeli employers today." [1]

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1 - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capitalist-colonial-thai-migrant-workers-israeli-agriculture