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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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
Series:Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
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