2011/12/15 by Rhona Seidelman · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Health Professions · Medicine · Nursing · #Alien #Citizenship #Documentation #Genealogy #Health and Conflict Studies #History #Immigration #Judaism #Law #Medicine #Naturalization #Nursing #Pathology #Political science #Politics #Public health #Quarantine #Race, Genetics, and Society #Refugee #Sociology #State (computer science)
paper · doi:10.2105/ajph.2011.300476
openalex publication_date 2011/12/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/07
Shaar Haaliya--Israel's Ellis Island during the mass immigration of the 1950s--is a case study that challenges the historian's understanding of the concept of quarantine. It was isolated and fenced off for declared health purposes and was widely referred to as a quarantine, but archival and historiographical documentation suggest that Israeli public health policy did not define it as such. I track the discussion and conflict surrounding Shaar Haaliya's function and perception as a quarantine. This is a story that illuminates the way fear of disease converged with fear of immigration as well as the way defiance of public health institutions took shape in a unique framework of citizenship and during a unique wave of migration.