Affirmative Squatting: Mizrahi Women in Israel Correcting Past Injustices

Claris Harbon, Research Associate, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University. Assistant Professor in Gender Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Claris Harbon is a scholar of law, socio-legal studies, race/ethnicity studies, and gender studies. Her work examines the home, especially public housing in Israel as a site of both oppression and resistance. Harbon received her DCL from McGill University with a dissertation “Lawbreaking as Lawmaking: Redefining Women’s Everyday Resistances to Injustices”. She holds two LLM degrees, one from Tel Aviv University and one from Yale Law School.

(Photo: Courtesy of MEE/Shiraz Grinbaum and Keren Manor. Translation of Hebrew graffiti: “I was born here. My children were born here. Here…..”)  
 

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