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Centre for Gender Studies

Hila Amit

Overview

Hila Amit
Name:
Hila Amit
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Thesis title:
“The New Hebrew Diaspora” - ’check-out’ migration: Queer Israelis and the Undoing of Zionism
Year of Study:
1
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PhD Research

My project will investigate the experiences of queer Israeli migration and their creation of, and participation in a new phenomenon that is called in cyber space: The New Hebrew Diaspora.
My investigation would explore what I call ‘check-out’ migration, which can be identified by two main notions. First, it is distinctly a new type of movement which is not manifested in migration scholarship: a movement which is not concentrating on destination but on departure and detachment from the territory of the country of origin. Second, it is a group of migrants rarely investigated in migration literature, which consists of individuals who belong to the privileged part of the country of origin’s society, and who are migrating for political reasons, though they themselves are part of the ruling hegemony.
       This research is based on using queer theory in two main disciplines  diaspora and migration studies and Jewish and Israel studies.

PhD Conferences

  • 8th European Feminist Research Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 2012.
  • "An Other Sex", Queer theory Conference, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel June 2012
  • "Mind the Gap", Gender and Activism Conference, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
  • "What is LGBT(Q) History and where to we stand", Queen Mary University, London, November  2012