Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany /

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 contr...

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Main Author: Schenck, Marcia C. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series,
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Between the Hammer, Machete, and Kalashnikov: Labor Migration from Angola and Mozambique to East Germany 1979-90
  • Chapter 3: Socialist Workers and Socialist Consumers
  • Chapter 4: The Social Life of Socialism: Intimacy and Racism
  • Chapter 5: Return, Fall and Rise of the Madjerman: The Afterlives of Socialist Migration
  • Chapter 6: Temporality, Memory and Meaning: Eastalgia in Angola and Mozambique
  • Chapter 7: Epilogue: Transnational Sojourners, Intimate Strangers, and Workers of the World.