ISBN:
9783031067761
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 377 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series
Uniform Title:
Socialist solidarities and their afterlives : histories and memories of Angolan and Mozambican migrants in the German Democratic Republic, 1975-2015
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Dissertation note:
Dissertation Princeton University 2017
Keywords:
Africa—History.
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Europe—History.
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World history.
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Labor.
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History.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Europe
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Africa
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Hochschulschrift
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Angola
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Moçambique
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Arbeitnehmer
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Migration
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Deutschland
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Geschichte
Abstract:
This 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
1 Prologue : Juma Madeira – From socialist new man to Madjerman activist -- 2 Introduction -- 3 Between the hammer, machete, and Kalashnikov : labor migration from Angola and Mozambique to East Germany 1979-1990 -- 4 Socialist workers and socialist consumers -- 5 The social life of socialism : intimacy and racism -- 6 Return, fall and rise of the Madjerman : the afterlives of socialist migration -- 7 Temporality, memory and meaning : Eastalgia in Angola and Mozambique -- 8 Epilogue : transnational sojourners, intimate strangers, and workers of the world.
Note:
Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 333-370
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1
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