Amir Segal
Israeli poet
Amir Akiva Segal (Hebrew: עמיר עקיבא סגל; born in 1980 in Tzippori) is an Israeli poet, literary critic, and sociologist.
Early life and education
Segal was born in 1980 in Tzippori, Israel. He studied sociology and completed his doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral research examined transnational migration to Israel, with a particular focus on North American Jewish migrants and their integration into professional and organizational fields.
Academic career
In the middle of 2023, Segal began serving as a research fellow at the Institute for Immigration and Social Integration at the Ruppin Academic Center and as a lecturer at the Israeli branch of the International University of Economics and Business. In the same year, he published two articles based on his doctoral dissertation, one of which dealt with Israeli baseball and the influence of immigrants from the United States on the assimilation of the game in Israel. The second one dealt with immigrants from the United States and Canada working in Israel as fundraisers .
Segal serves as a board member of the Association for Israel Studies and Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.
Segal's academic work focuses on transnational migration, diaspora studies, and the relationship between civil society and political processes. He completed his doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his research examined transnational migrant employment in Israel, with a particular focus on North American Jewish migrants working in fields such as fundraising, politics, and sports.
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