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Introduction/ Sarah Willen -- Part I: Transnational migration and the Israeli state in flux: national-level perspectives. Labor migration, managing the ethno-national conflict, and client politics in Israel / Rebeca Raijman and Adriana Kemp -- Litigating citizenship beyond the law of return / Guy Mundlak -- Part II: Tel Aviv as global city: local and municipal perspectives on transnational migration. Municipal policies in comparative perspective: understanding Tel Aviv's policy response to the labor migrant phenomenon / Michael Alexander -- Transnational migration in the context of Tel Aviv's changing urban environment / Itzhak Schnell -- Part III: Irregular migration and health. Rights, citizenship and the national state: migrant worker health policies in comparative perspective / Nadav Davidovitch and Dani Filc -- Citizenship, rights, and ambiguity: undocumented migrant workers and access to health services in Berlin and Tel Aviv / Heide Castaneda -- Trafficked women and political asylum seekers / Rami Adout -- Part IV: Seeking inhabitable spaces of welcome: ethnographic perspectives on undocumented migrants' everyday lives. 'Flesh of our flesh'? Undocumented migrant workers' search for meaning in the wake of a suicide bombing /Sarah S. Willen -- The rise and fall of African independent Christianity in Israel, 1990-2004 /Galia Sabar -- Terms of endearment: undocumented domestic workers and their Israeli employers / Anat Rosenthal -- Concluding chapter: Challenging exclusionary migration regimes: labor migration in Israel in comparative perspective / Zeev Rosenhek.