Ethnic Frontiers and Peripheries: Landscapes of Development and Inequality in Israel

"The idea for editing this book originated during an international conference

titled ""Regional Development: The Challenge of the Frontier,""

held in December 1993 at the Dead Sea and which was organized by the

Negev Center for Regional Development at Ben-Gurion University of the

Negev. In this conference we noticed that little has been said about the

impact of Israel's complex mosaic of ethnic groups on the shaping of the

country's social and spatial frontiers. We have therefore endeavored to

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