Witchcraft and concepts of evil amongst African migrant workers in Israel

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Title:	Witchcraft and concepts of evil amongst African migrant workers in Israel
Author:	Sabar, Galia
Year:	2010
Periodical:	Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:	44
Issue:	1
Pages:	110-141
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Israel
Subjects:	Africans witchcraft immigrants migrant workers popular beliefs
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2010.9707561
Abstract:	Based on qualitative research methodologies, this article focuses on exploring and analysing notions of witchcraft and evil amongst African migrant labourers in Israel in the midst of threatening deportation and harsh economics in the 2000s. The analysis suggests that juxtaposing family, money problems, social tension, stress, and witchcraft is significant in understanding the role of witchcraft, evil forces, and malicious spirits in the way African migrants experience the modern world. Finally, the article explores how African migrants incorporated local Jewish religious powers into their understanding of evil and witchcraft, thus expanding the discourse on belief systems in the context of transnational migration, globalization and modernity. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]