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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.Marcia Schenck, deploying an extraordinary array of oral and documentary resources, tells us what Mozambicans and Angolans who went as worker-trainees to East Germany were able to make of the experience: their hopes, their frustrations, the relationships they made, and the memories and cultural resources they brought back with them. Her book is a compelling reflection on socialism in Africa and Europe and on what it means to move between continents and ways of life. -Frederick Cooper, author of Africa Since 1940: The Past of the PresentBased on hundreds of life histories of Angolans and Mozambicans, who worked in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s, this book offers a richly textured and deeply intimate history of Cold War era socialist migration. These personal histories of Cold War migration are a close reading of the particular that illuminate a crucial moment of aspiration for many around the world. The book foregrounds the creation of the socialist world in the spaces between nations and continents, in the details and places of migrants' lives and memories. The absolute abundance of interviews conducted by Schenck gives her a source base that is unique among historians of socialist globalization, giving real insight into the experience of socialist encounter for hundreds of non-elite men and women. These life histories allow Schenck to highlight Mozambican and Angolan agency within migration programs that have often been seen as top-down projects and has allowed her to produce a work that is deeply grounded in the places and spaces of everyday life. This close focus on the individual produces a subtle method-as-argument intervention that complicates chronological and geographical divides of African, Cold War and European history in fruitful ways. Following migrants from colonial to post-colonial, and socialist to post-socialist, the book illuminates the interwoven histories of GDR, Angola, and Mozambique alongside the interconnected lives of the migrant workers she follows. She presents a collective biography while maintaining attention for each individual and their own experience. With a focus on social life, consumption, and affective ties, she offers profound insights into socialist subjectivity in southern Africa and East Germany, while never losing sight of the personal and intimate dramas that shaped socialist mobility in unique ways. These are portraits of lives lived with fullness, sadness, joy and struggle, not examples of cold war policy that could fail or succeed. Her careful analysis of workers' memories allows for contextualization of their socialist experiences in the capitalist present, highlighting how contractions of contemporary life give new expression to the possibilities lived in the past, and how cold war era socialist globaliz

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• Plný název: Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World
• Podnázev: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany
• Autor: Marcia C. Schenck
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 377
• EAN: 9783031067754
• ID: 39193160
• Nakladatelství: Springer International Publishing AG
• Hmotnost: 634 g
• Rozměry: 210 × 148 × 27 mm
• Datum vydání: 19. February 2023

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