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institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	I argue here that Israel’s ‘basic structure’ (i.e., the main economic, social, and political institutions), to use John Rawls’s phrase, subjects the Palestinian citizens to a process of ghettoization that relegates them to a separate and unequal status. This basic structure is particularly unjust, as it does not provide these citizens with the minimal conditions of a decent life. The state not only fails to rectify this injustice but is actively implicated in producing it. I argue that this process has included five key and interrelated elements: labor segmentation, land appropriation, de-development, deficient education, and the production of poverty. The Essay shows how the legal system is implicated in producing the segregation and subordination of the Palestinian minority. Ultimately, ghettoization within Israel intersects with a process of separation and annexation in the Occupied Territories. Together, these processes are eroding the citizenship status of the Palestinian citizens in Israel.
format	Journal Article
author	Sultany, Nimer
author_facet	Sultany, Nimer
authorStr	Sultany, Nimer
author_letter	Sultany, Nimer
title	The Making of an Underclass: The Palestinian Citizens in Israel
publisher	Berghahn
publishDate	2012
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17285/