Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World
Title | Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World PDF eBook |
Author | Marcia C. Schenck |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2022-11-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3031067762 |
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.
Poverty and Other Factors Related to Labor Migration in East Africa
Title | Poverty and Other Factors Related to Labor Migration in East Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Louise Phillips |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Labor mobility |
ISBN |
Exiled in East Germany
Title | Exiled in East Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Pampuch |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2024-01-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3111204480 |
Look Away
Title | Look Away PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Kushner |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2024-05-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1538708132 |
From a journalist and foreign correspondent, the harrowing history of how an economic crisis and far-right extremists catalyzed a shocking resurgence of violence in 21st-century Germany. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic crisis: some four million East Germans found themselves out of jobs. The friends began attending far-right rallies with people who called themselves National Socialists: Nazis. Like the Hitler-led Nazis before them, they blamed minorities for their ills. From 2000 to 2011, they embarked on the most horrific string of white nationalist killings since the Holocaust. Their target: immigrants. Look Away follows Beate Zschäpe and her two accomplices—and sometimes lovers—as they radicalized within Germany’s far-right scene, escaped into hiding, and carried out their terrorist spree. Unable to believe that the brutal killings and bombings were being carried out by white Germans, police blamed—and sometimes framed—the immigrants instead. Readers meet Gamze Kubaşık, whose family emigrated from Turkey to seek safety, only to find themselves in the terrorists’ sights. It also tracks Katharina König, an Antifa punk who would help expose the NSU and their accomplices to the world. A masterwork of reporting and storytelling, Look Away reveals how a group of young Germans carried out a shocking spree of white supremacist violence, and how a nation and its government ignored them until it was too late.
African Migrations
Title | African Migrations PDF eBook |
Author | Abdoulaye Kane |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253003083 |
Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.
Navigating Socialist Encounters
Title | Navigating Socialist Encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Burton |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110623544 |
This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.
General Labour History of Africa
Title | General Labour History of Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Stefano Bellucci |
Publisher | James Currey |
Pages | 784 |
Release | 2019-05-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1847012183 |
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.