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Adi Hercowitz-Amir – Lecturer

Dr. Adi Hercowitz-Amir

Lecturer

Field: Sociology
Topics & Interests: Immigration Policy, Public Opinion on immigration, Immigrants’ integration, identity and social networks in host societies

Other functions: Adjunct Lecturer at Tel Aviv University

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Adi Hercowitz-Amir holds a BA in Sociology and Anthropology and in Communication and Journalism, and an MA in Organizational Sociology, all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Haifa. Adi completed the first postdoctoral year at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the second postdoctoral year, at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES), at the University of Haifa.

  • Hercowitz-Amir, A. and Raijman, R. (2019). Restrictive borders and rights: Attitudes of the Danish public to asylum seekers. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1606435. 
  • Hercowitz-Amir, A. Raijman, R. and Davidov, E. (2017). Host or hostile? Attitudes towards asylum seekers in Israel and in Denmark. The International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 58(5), 416-439. doi/10.1177/0020715217722039. 
  • Hochman, H. and Hercowitz-Amir, A. (2016). (Dis)agreement with the implementation of humanitarian policy measures towards asylum seekers in Israel: does the frame matter? Journal of International Migration and Integration. 18, 897-916. doi 10.1007/s12134-016-0510-0. 
  • Hercowitz-Amir, A. (2018). Mind the gap? Looking into restrictionism of elites and the public on integration and border policy towards asylum seekers and refugees in Denmark. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, Working Paper #196, July 2018.
  • Hercowitz-Amir, A., the Center for International Migration and Integration (CIMI) and the Department of Planning in the Population and Immigration Authority, The Israeli Ministry of Interior (2016). Profile of Labor Migration in Israel Report 2016 [in English and in Hebrew]. 

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