Abstract
This article examines the case of Jewish women immigrants from Ethiopia and their sense of belonging to the state of Israel and Israeli society. By focusing the discussion on the concept of home within the ideologies of nationhood and citizenship, it analyses artistic products of women that express their active participation in the production of meaning of the notion ‘to belong to a homeland’. Arguing that the artists present a multi-faceted attitude towards the nation-state, the article shows the complex positions they occupy as transnational subjects that hold hybrid identities and affiliations which open up new possibilities for civic action and subversive practices. The methodology of the present study, which integrates an analysis of artworks with a sociopolitical discussion, draws on cultural studies, migration studies and qualitative feminist methodology. It addresses three major identity categories in the discussion – those of gender, race and religion.
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