#  Yossi Harpaz 

Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Tel-Aviv University.

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (2021-2022).

Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2022).

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** Globalization, international migration, citizenship, nationalism and ethnicity, political sociology, social theory, political ritual, and historical-comparative sociology.

**Bio:** I am a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) in the Department of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. I completed my PhD in Sociology at Princeton University and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center. My research focuses on citizenship, national identity, international migration and elites.

​My first book, [*Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset* ](https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvdtpk5s)*(*Princeton University Press), came out in 2019. The book analyzes and compares the dynamics of dual citizenship in three cases: EU citizenship in Israel, Hungarian citizenship in Serbia and U.S. dual nationality in Mexico. The book argues that the growing acceptance of dual citizenship changes the meaning of citizenship, allowing individuals to treat it as an instrumental asset rather than a binding declaration of national identity. The book sheds light on the global trend of strategic citizenship, and explores its implications for ethnic and national identities, immigration and inequality.

I am interested in the interface between membership, identity and inequality. Some of the questions I engaged with include: What drives millionaires to seek expensive investor visas? What are the status implications of the global hierarchy of passports? How do national minorities deal with being misrecognized with traveling internationally? What conditions drive individuals to emigrate?

Another topic of interest concerns the social mechanisms that produce cohesion and cooperation. As part of this line of inquiry, I study the community factors associated with tax avoidance, and the cohesive effect of national rituals and ceremonies.

*This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated. (last update 12.26.2025)*



 

 

 





 

 

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