The impact of liminal legal status on labor market experiences: a comparative study of Sudanese asylum seekers and refugees in Israel.
This article examines the labor market experiences of Sudanese forced migrants in Israel under prolonged temporary legal status. It underscores how regulatory and legal frameworks, particularly the mechanism of institutional ambiguity as a form of legal violence, shape migrants' socioeconomic outcom...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 715 - 737 |
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