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Negev Bedouin and Higher Education: At the Crossroads of a Community in Transition Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE HIGHER EDUCATION NOMADS SOCIAL IDENTITY INTERVIEWS This paper analyses the extent to which higher education serves as a tool of empowerment for the Negev Bedouin Arabs in Israel, in light of their dramatic transformation from nomadic desert dwellers into a landless sedentarized community within the Jewish immigrant state. Combining relevant literature with qualitative data drawn from in-depth interviews with Bedouin students and academics, an impression is given of the complex power relations affecting the role of higher education in the context of social change. The analysis shows how state control over the Bedouin forms a major barrier towards social change. Furthermore it shows how traditional values which characterized the Bedouin's former mobile lifestyle live on in their current immobile setting, preventing them from developing the sense of unity crucial for the empowerment of the collective. These two inextricably entwined factors block the way for collective solutions. The first step towards social change for the Bedouin community lays in suitable preparatory education, aimed at the creation of a sense of Bedouin identity. This basis will bring Bedouin into higher education who are truly able to lead their community towards social change; and thus transform state control into community power. 2026-09-30T11:44:58Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33353142.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Negev_Bedouin_and_Higher_Education_At_the_Crossroads_of_a_Community_in_Transition/33353142 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0