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Using the lens of collective and community care (Francisco-Menchavez, The labor of care: Filipina migrants and transnational families in the digital age. University of Illinois Press, 2018; Tungohan, 2023; & Hobart & Kneese, Radical care: Survival strategies for uncertain times. Social Text, 38(1(142)), 1–16, 2020), this chapter asks how Eritrean refugees resist Israeli state violence and disinvestment in refugee and indigenous communities (Ravid, Making their lives miserable: Structural violence and state racism towards asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea in Israel. State Crime, 11 (1), 128–48, 2022). Drawing on a multimodal archive, I ask how refugees collectivize economic precarity and provide for families and communities despite surveillance, criminalization, and debt. Throughout the chapter, I take for granted the tenuousness of the social and legal categories “labor migrant” and “asylum seeker,” as they are continually constructed through settler colonial law, language, and policy (Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, The Coloniality of Migration and the ‘Refugee Crisis’: On the Asylum-Migration Nexus, the Transatlantic White European Settler Colonialism-Migration and Racial Capitalism. Refuge, 34(10), 16–28, 2018). I begin by outlining the legal, social, and economic strictures faced by Eritrean women refugees in Israel, with particular attention to the gendered racisms regulating non-Jewish families (Duman, ‘Infiltrators go home!’ Explaining xenophobic mobilization against asylum seekers in Israel. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16 (4), 1231–1254, 2015; Ghebrezghiabher & Motzafi-Haller, Eritrean women asylum seekers in Israel: From a politics of rescue to feminist accountability. Journal of Refugee Studies, 28(4), 570–594, 2015). I then detail the everyday experiences of economic precarity and debt, from wage theft to state-sanctioned exploitation. Finally, I examine modes of community care that resist attacks on non-Jewish communities by the settler state (Brown, Unsettled labors: Migrant care work in Palestine/Israel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024). I conclude by offering how the community organizing work of Eritrean refugees can inform future research and solidarity efforts beyond institutional reform.

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Collective Care Among Refugees in the Israeli Settler State: Navigating Debt and Economic Precarity

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    2025年

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  • Rachel Brown

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Using the lens of collective and community care (Francisco-Menchavez, The labor of care: Filipina migrants and transnational families in the digital age. University of Illinois Press, 2018; Tungohan, 2023; & Hobart & Kneese, Radical care: Survival strategies for uncertain times. Social Text, 38(1(142)), 1–16, 2020), this chapter asks how Eritrean refugees resist Israeli state violence and disinvestment in refugee and indigenous communities (Ravid, Making their lives miserable: Structural violence and state racism towards asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea in Israel. State Crime, 11 (1), 128–48, 2022). Drawing on a multimodal archive, I ask how refugees collectivize economic precarity and provide for families and communities despite surveillance, criminalization, and debt. Throughout the chapter, I take for granted the tenuousness of the social and legal categories “labor migrant” and “asylum seeker,” as they are continually constructed through settler colonial law, language, and policy (Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, The Coloniality of Migration and the ‘Refugee Crisis’: On the Asylum-Migration Nexus, the Transatlantic White European Settler Colonialism-Migration and Racial Capitalism. Refuge, 34(10), 16–28, 2018). I begin by outlining the legal, social, and economic strictures faced by Eritrean women refugees in Israel, with particular attention to the gendered racisms regulating non-Jewish families (Duman, ‘Infiltrators go home!’ Explaining xenophobic mobilization against asylum seekers in Israel. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16 (4), 1231–1254, 2015; Ghebrezghiabher & Motzafi-Haller, Eritrean women asylum seekers in Israel: From a politics of rescue to feminist accountability. Journal of Refugee Studies, 28(4), 570–594, 2015). I then detail the everyday experiences of economic precarity and debt, from wage theft to state-sanctioned exploitation. Finally, I examine modes of community care that resist attacks on non-Jewish communities by the settler state (Brown, Unsettled labors: Migrant care work in Palestine/Israel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024). I conclude by offering how the community organizing work of Eritrean refugees can inform future research and solidarity efforts beyond institutional reform.