Hybrid Identities: Contemporary Israeli-Ethiopian Artists in an Ethno-national Context

The paper will discuss the artistic activity of Israeli-Ethiopian women immigrants that arrived in Israel in the 1980-1990s as young girls, using qualitative feminist methodologies in the arts.

This talk will particularly discuss the hybridity of transnational transections of migrating subjects, while exploring narratives of women that experienced uprooting and migration and analyzing the ways in which these artists cope with issues of belonging. The talk will focus on explaining the cultural, religious and political field in Israel to which they have arrived and the various power relations working on them as newcomers, while revealing the different levels and degrees of inclusion and exclusion that are exercised on them within the context of the Israeli nation-state.