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Record W4410346599 · doi:10.1080/14725886.2025.2502781

Why we move to Israel? To integrate into Israeli society or “get more bang from the buck”

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Cheryl Zlotnick

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Modern Jewish Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration and Labor Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceSociologyPolitical economy

Abstract

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What makes lifestyle migrants (individuals from wealthy countries permanently relocating to another wealthy country) satisfied with their move to Israel? Some believe lifestyle migrants are most satisfied when they reside in well-to-do, cultural oases, settled by like-minded migrants. Others report the opposite – that lifestyle migrants who move to Israel are most satisfied when they integrate into Israeli society. This study asks which of these two approaches led to life satisfaction for English-speaking, lifestyle migrants? Using a cross-sectional study, working-age, Jewish adults (n = 109) who recently emigrated from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States were recruited. We found that life satisfaction post-migration in Israel was highest among lifestyle migrants who achieved their pre-migration desire to integrate into the host country’s social-, cultural- and work-life. No evidence supported the contention that lifestyle migrants moved to Israel with the desire to live in well-to-do, cultural, enclaves. In fact, contrary to many studies, pre-migration and post-migration levels of socioeconomic status were unrelated to lifestyle migrants’ life satisfaction. While privileged, Jewish migrants may arrive to Israel with a higher level of socioeconomic status than others, they strive for their pre-migration goal, to become part of Israeli society.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.321 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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