Amir Segal is a Post-Doc Fellow of the Minerva Stiftung at the Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Sociology – researching diaspora relations and transnational migration. His research seeks to understand the entirety of the transnational political engagement of diaspora members in times of turmoil and turbulence in the homeland. That by focusing on the ways members of diasporic communities are impacted by, and try to impact, their homeland, their host society, other relevant diasporas, and the global sphere, at critical junctures defined by turbulent political changes. The diasporas being studied are the Israeli, Jewish, Russian, and Ukrainian diasporas during two critical junctures that took place in the recent years.

Completed his Doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of transnational migrant employment in Israel, focusing on North American Jewish migrants employed in the fields of fundraising, politics, and baseball. His general areas of research interest include transnational migration, Jewish migration, civil society philanthropy, and political poetry.

Worked for several years as Fundraiser for non-profits in Israel and prior to that as an employment officer and a political and parliamentary advisor. Published four Poetry books and a novel (all in Hebrew), and a book about Israeli political poetry. Married to Anya and father of three.

Diaspora relations

Transnational migration

Jewish migration

Civil Society

Philanthropy

Political Poetry

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS                                                                                

Segal, A. A. and Ravid, G. (2025) "Managers' Perspectives During crisis and Turbulent Times: Values under attack," Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 20(2): 136-150.

Segal, A. A. (2025) “What Interview Language Reveals About Integration, Absorption, and Transnationalism: A Study of North American Immigrants in Israel" Keshet: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences [in Hebrew]

Segal, A. A. (2024) “The Advantages of Online Interviews for Transmigrants and Transnational Migration Studies,” in American Journal of Qualitative Research, 8(3): 139-152. 

Segal, A. A. and Greenspan, I. (2024) “The Creation and Americanization of Israeli Conservative Civil Society: Critical Community and Transnational Transference,” in Israel Studies Review, 29(2): 144-169.

Segal, A, A, (2023) “Homeland Run: Israeli Baseball and American Transmigrants,” in Contemporary Jewry, 43(1): 97-120.

Segal, A. A. and Guetzkow, J. (2023) "Transnational Immigrants Encounter the Workplace: North American Jewish Migrants in Israel Who Work in Fundraising," Migration Letters, 20(7): 1167-1184.

Segal, A. A. (2020) “Employment in the Process of Migration and Absorption of Jewish Migrants from the United States to Israel,” in Hagira - Israel Journal of Migration [in Hebrew] (10): 120-140.

BOOK PUBLICATIONS                                                                                

2025    Our words are Silence, (Tel Aviv: Iton 77, 2025) [Poetry, Hebrew]

2023    Protest Poetry in Israel in the Early Twenty First Century (Jerusalem: November Books, 2023) [popular interest, Hebrew]

2020    The End of the Twentieth Century, (Tel Aviv: Iton 77, 2020) [poetry, Hebrew]

2017    Song of America, (Tel Aviv: Iton 77, 2017) [novel, Hebrew]

2014    The Other Land (Tel Aviv: Iton 77, 2014) [poetry, Hebrew]

2008    On My Return from the Reserves (Tel Aviv: Gvanim, 2008) [poetry, Hebrew]