ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a critical analysis of the sociology of migration in Israel in an effort to set the scene. It discusses theories of Migration in Post-Industrial Societies and explores israel in the Context of Post-Industrial Migration: The Mythology of "Uniqueness." The chapter examines changing theoretical Perspectives of Israeli Sociologists: From Monism to Differentiation and the Institutional Context of Immigration Research and Its Relevance to Theory and Substance. It also examines principal Substantive Areas of Migration Research in the 1980s and 1990s. Israel is a society made up largely of immigrants and their children. Israeli sociologists first began to study migration in the early 1950s when the state of Israel was newly established and the community of sociologists was also in its nascent stages of formation. Many societies are facing some of the issues that have long been familiar to Israeli sociologists: inter-group conflicts, inequality, integration processes, legitimacy of the persistence of ethnic enclaves.
