Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World - Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy. This book draws on more than 260 life history interviews and uncovers complex and contradictory experiences and transnational encounters. What emerges is a series of dualities that exist side by side in the memories of the former migrants: the state and the individual, work and consumption, integration and exclusion, loss and gain, and the past in the past and the past in the present and future. By uncovering these dualities, the book explores the lives of African migrants moving between the Third and Second worlds. Devoted to the memories of worker-trainees, this transnational study comes at a time when historians are uncovering the many varied, complicated, and important connections within the global socialist world.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Release date:	November 2022
First published:	2023
Authors:	Marcia C. Schenck
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	377
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-106775-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > History > African history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-106775-4
Barcode:	9783031067754

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!