This kind of immigration behavior b

This kind of immigration behavior becomes more normalized and
universalized when considered through the specific frame of ethnic return
migration. Considering a broad class of ethnic return migrants that includes
Diaspora-Israelis alongside cases like Japanese-Brazilians, Transylvanian-
Hungarians, and Korean-Chinese, Takeyuki Tsuda argued, “Although ethnicity
is generally not a ‘pull’ factor that draws diasporic descendants to the
ancestral homeland in search of ancestral heritage, it can be a ‘push’ factor
that forces them out of their country of birth.”12 Thus, “Transnational
ethnic ties between homelands and their ethnic descendants abroad explain
where they go but not why they leave.”13 As this narrower lens provides a
comparative framework where push-pull motivations have also been linked,
it may lend deeper insights into the phenomenon of Jewish-American
immigration to Israel than general theories of migration.