Articles by Marcia C. Schenck
World History Connected, 2022
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CIM Paper Series Nr. 6 , Feb 2014
Diese Untersuchung beleuchtet die verschiedenen Leistungen der Programmkomponente für Rückkehrend... more Diese Untersuchung beleuchtet die verschiedenen Leistungen der Programmkomponente für Rückkehrende Fachkräfte (RF-Komponente) des Programms Migration für Entwicklung (PME) auf der Basis eines zehnwöchigen Indonesienaufenthalts von Oktober bis Dezember 2012. Das Bestreben dieser Programmkomponente
des Centrums für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM) ist die temporäre oder permanente Wiedereingliederung von indonesischen Rückkehrenden Fachkräften in den indonesischen Arbeitsmarkt und damit verbunden die Nutzung ihres einzigartigen Wissens.
Das zentrale Ziel dieser Studie ist es, zwei Schlüsselkonzepte der RF-Komponente empirisch zu untersuchen. Die zugrundeliegenden Annahmen lauten, dass die Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte erstens als
Agents of Change und Multiplikatoren durch ihre in Deutschland erworbenen Erfahrungen und Expertise zu der Entwicklung Indonesiens beitragen und zweitens dank ihrer sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Verbindungen als Brückenbauer zwischen Deutschland und Indonesien agieren.
Für die empirische Untersuchung wurden das Leistungsangebot und die zwei Schlüsselkonzepte der RF-Komponente mit den Erfahrungen und Sichtweisen der Akteure vor Ort kontrastiert. Die Erfahrungen
in Indonesien wurden auf der Grundlage von 64 Interviews mit Rückkehrenden Fachkräften, Alumni, Arbeitgebern und anderen Personen aus dem sozialen Umfeld der Fachkräfte erhoben.
Die Interviews ermöglichten eine kritische Würdigung der einzelnen Leistungen der Programmkomponente: Der Gehaltszuschuss wird als zentrales Element wahrgenommen, das auf vielfältigste Art
und Weise zur Verbesserung der Lebenssituation der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte beiträgt. Reise- und Transportkostenzuschüsse sowie die Unterstützung durch Arbeitsplatzausstattung wurden ebenfalls
positiv bewertet, wobei insbesondere letztere aufgrund komplexer Antragsverfahren und Überführung der Ausstattung in den Besitz des Arbeitgebers auch kritisiert wird. Zudem wurde deutlich, dass
zusätzliche Leistungen wie Vernetzungsreisen und Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen oder Vorstellungsreisen
in Indonesien bislang nur selten in Anspruch genommen werden.
Darüber hinaus zeigt die empirische Untersuchung, dass das Potential der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte als Brückenbauer zwischen Indonesien und Deutschland häufig noch ungenutzt bleibt. Zum
einen haben die Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte selbst nur ein vages Verständnis ihrer eigenen Rolle als Brückenbauer, zum anderen mangelt es ihnen an ausreichender Vernetzung. Vielmehr steht in
Indonesien der multidirektionale Prozess der Wissenskreation im Fokus. Es wurde deutlich, dass Rückkehrer ihre in Deutschland gelebten Erfahrungen an ihre indonesische Lebenswelt anpassen und dadurch idiosynkratrische neue Ideen und Ansätze verfolgen. Wissen wird nicht nur transferiert, sondern transformiert.
Um die Potentiale der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte noch besser zu fördern, empfiehlt sich eine kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung der Komponente. Hierfür liefert die Studie wichtige Empfehlungen: So
sollte z. B. die Alumni- und Vernetzungsarbeit gestärkt werden, um die Potentiale der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte als Agents of Change und Brückenbauer noch besser zu aktivieren.
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African Economic History, 2016
Migration between select “Third World” and “Second World” countries were often organized around b... more Migration between select “Third World” and “Second World” countries were often organized around bilateral labor migration regimes. As a result, individuals from Angola and Mozambique who came to work and train in East Germany are categorized as labor migrants; an analysis of workers’ motivations to migrate is missing. On the basis of oral history interviews collected in Angola and Mozambique, this article examines the myriad reasons for which young Angolan and Mozambican men and women temporarily relocated to East Germany. These reasons included economic, educational, emotional, and security considerations. The migrants’ complex understandings from below are discussed through the categories of labor, educational, war and emotional migration, providing an important corrective to the top-down designation as “labor migration.” Rather than abandoning the term altogether as an analytical category, this article suggests that it may serve as a shorthand, provided that scholars take seriously the motivations for migration, rather than obliterate these motivations through an uncritical use of the term. This approach challenges the prevailing conceptions of migrants as passive participants in socialist labor migrations, as well as the limited conceptions of labor migration often adopted by outside observers.
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Labor History, 2018
This article discusses the chronology of nostalgia expressed by former Angolan and Mozambican wor... more This article discusses the chronology of nostalgia expressed by former Angolan and Mozambican worker trainees in East Germany. By shedding light on the different forms in which nostalgia was expressed in interviews with migrants who returned to their country of origin, the article examines the migrants’ longing for working abroad prior to leaving and for their home countries while living abroad. The focus lies on the returnees’ nostalgia for aspects of their lived experiences in East Germany, a phenomenon I call Eastalgia. Struggling economically, socially, and emotionally after their return to Angola and Mozambique, many former worker trainees longed for the consumption opportunities, mobility, organization, and modernity of their East German experience. I argue that labor migrants who returned to Mozambique employ both Eastalgia and a glorification of Samora Machel’s socialist Mozambique to criticize the current government for its failure to develop the country according to the expectations shaped by their experiences in East Germany. Finally, I compare and contrast different forms of Eastalgia in Mozambique and Angola with regard to temporality, locality, individual and/or collective, public and/or private, and restorative and/or reflective longing. The former worker trainees’ voices provide new insight into the emotional dimensions of migration and teach us that memories of migrations actively continue to shape the lives of many of the former migrants.
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L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques, 2018
In this contribution to global mobile lives and scales in global history, Korean cultural studies... more In this contribution to global mobile lives and scales in global history, Korean cultural studies researcher Jiyoon Kim, University of Tokyo, and German historian Marcia C. Schenck, Princeton University, draw on their respective dissertation research. Experimenting with a conversation
style, we discuss the issue of scale in global history and elaborate on what working with subjects who move transnationally through a Cold-War-influenced world means for our projects on, in Schenck’s case, Angolan and Mozambican labor and education migrants to East Germany in the late 1970s and 1980s. As for Kim, she studies South Korean youth travelers and tour participants who journeyed abroad before and after the full liberalization of overseas travel in 1989. Shedding light on two different sides of the iron curtain, the chronological overlap produced similar insights into the “hot cold war” and the importance of the state in relation to mobility. In explicitly discussing global mobile lives of non-elite actors as a methodological approach to the writing of global history, we engage with issues of scale, units, archives, collaboration and the relationship between history and the present for and in which the historian is writing.
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Stichproben, 2018
This research note suggests that the " Black East " could be a unit of analysis as well as an alt... more This research note suggests that the " Black East " could be a unit of analysis as well as an alternative theoretical framework that helps shift the research focus too often neglected actors in the history of the Eastern bloc and African history alike. Much like Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic was an imperfect unit of analysis, it nevertheless did important work in constituting the Atlantic as a hybrid world and deconstructing England as a cohesive cultural community. Similarly, the „Black East“ emerges as amalgam, a temporal and geographic space that entangled African and Eastern bloc histories from the macro to the micro level. The “Black East,” however, necessarily remains a simplification and thus becomes useful especially through its deconstruction. What can be understood as “Black” and what as “East”? Organizing research under the slogan of the “Black East,” – or better in the spirit of its deconstruction – might enable writing entangled histories of Cold War interactions between the “Second” and the “Third World” and in the process bringing the hitherto distinct research fields of African history and Eastern European history closer together.
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Africa, 2019
This article traces the experiences of Angolan students who attended East German institutions of ... more This article traces the experiences of Angolan students who attended East German institutions of higher education between Angolan independence and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Based on oral histories collected in Luanda from twenty-one returned Angolan students in 2015, triangulated with archival material from Angola and the GDR, it argues that students negotiated between accommodation and resistance in their everyday life at the university and beyond. Conscious of the importance of academic success and adaptation to the East German learning culture, Angolan students drew a line when regulations infringed on their personal freedom and responded by engaging East German officials in discussion or simply by circumnavigating the rules. The life history of a female student illustrates how she negotiated between responsibility to formal learning and personal needs within a controlling society. When one considers the conditions of Angolan student life in East Germany as a whole, it becomes apparent that the East German notion of the model foreign student did not map onto the complexities of Angolan student lives. This article sheds light on the student migration of a generation of Angolan post-independence technocrats, many of whom studied in the former East during the Cold War. Through the eyes of Angolan educational migrants, we see the limits and possibilities of the lives of foreign students in the GDR.
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Migration between select “Third World” and “Second World” countries were often organized around b... more Migration between select “Third World” and “Second World” countries were often organized around bilateral labor migration regimes. As a result, individuals from Angola and Mozambique who came to work and train in East Germany are categorized as labor migrants; an analysis of workers’ motivations to migrate is missing. On the basis of oral history interviews collected in Angola and Mozambique, this article examines the myriad reasons for which young Angolan and Mozambican men and women temporarily relocated to East Germany. These reasons included economic, educational, emotional, and security considerations. The migrants’ complex understandings from below are discussed through the categories of labor, educational, war and emotional migration, providing an important corrective to the top-down designation as “labor migration.” Rather than abandoning the term altogether as an analytical category, this article suggests that it may serve as a shorthand, provided that scholars take seriously the motivations for migration, rather than obliterate these motivations through an uncritical use of the term. This approach challenges the prevailing conceptions of migrants as passive participants in socialist labor migrations, as well as the limited conceptions of labor migration often adopted by outside observers.
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Africa
This article traces the experiences of Angolan students who attended East German institutions of ... more This article traces the experiences of Angolan students who attended East German institutions of higher education between Angolan independence and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Based on oral histories collected in Luanda from twenty-one returned Angolan students in 2015, triangulated with archival material from Angola and the GDR, it argues that students negotiated between accommodation and resistance in their everyday life at the university and beyond. Conscious of the importance of academic success and adaptation to the East German learning culture, Angolan students drew a line when regulations infringed on their personal freedom and responded by engaging East German officials in discussion or simply by circumnavigating the rules. The life history of a female student illustrates how she negotiated between responsibility to formal learning and personal needs within a controlling society. When one considers the conditions of Angolan student life in East Germany as a whole, it becomes...
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Peripherie Nr. 165/166, 42, 2022
Research on East German racism before and after 1990 continues to focus on the experiences of the... more Research on East German racism before and after 1990 continues to focus on the experiences of the white majority. This paper focuses on the oral histories of Mozambican and Angolan worker trainees who came to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between 1978-1990 to work, live, and love, and those of the mixed-race children who emerged from their relationships to East German women. The racial knowledge pervading social interactions, state interests, and socialist notions of solidarity, limited the ability of the workers to freely live in mixed-race relationships, but never fully determined their experiences. Instead, Mozambican and Angolan worker-trainees exerted some degree of agency, pursued individual agendas, and resisted their racially constructed positions, in part through engaging in mixed-race relationships. While their children experienced racialised stereotypes much earlier in their biographies, they too were able to challenge and resist East German racist knowledge. Their strategies often took them on journeys searching for their Mozambican parent and of challenging close East German family members. Together, the oral histories of both generations before and after 1990 illuminate the complex ways in which racist knowledge operates and bring up new questions and challenges to existing research on racism in (East) Germany.
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Using documents assembled in connection with the 1967 Conference on the Legal, Economic and Socia... more Using documents assembled in connection with the 1967 Conference on the Legal, Economic and Social Aspects of African Refugee Problems, this article discusses African refugee higher-education discourses in the 1960s at the level of international organizations, volunteer agencies, and government representatives. Education and development history have recently been studied together, but this article focuses on the history of refugee higher education, which, it argues, needs to be understood within the development framework of human-capital theory, meant to support political pan-African concerns for a decolonized continent and merged with humanitarian arguments to create a hybrid form of humanitarian developmentalism. The article zooms in on higher-education scholarships, above all for refugees from Southern Africa, as a means of support for human-capital development. It shows that refugee higher education was both a result and a driver of increased international exchanges, as evidenced at the 1967 conference.
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Abstract This article discusses the chronology of nostalgia expressed by former Angolan and Mozam... more Abstract This article discusses the chronology of nostalgia expressed by former Angolan and Mozambican worker trainees in East Germany. By shedding light on the different forms in which nostalgia was expressed in interviews with migrants who returned to their country of origin, the article examines the migrants’ longing for working abroad prior to leaving and for their home countries while living abroad. The focus lies on the returnees’ nostalgia for aspects of their lived experiences in East Germany, a phenomenon I call Eastalgia. Struggling economically, socially, and emotionally after their return to Angola and Mozambique, many former worker trainees longed for the consumption opportunities, mobility, organization, and modernity of their East German experience. I argue that labor migrants who returned to Mozambique employ both Eastalgia and a glorification of Samora Machel’s socialist Mozambique to criticize the current government for its failure to develop the country according to the expectations shaped by their experiences in East Germany. Finally, I compare and contrast different forms of Eastalgia in Mozambique and Angola with regard to temporality, locality, individual and/or collective, public and/or private, and restorative and/or reflective longing. The former worker trainees’ voices provide new insight into the emotional dimensions of migration and teach us that memories of migrations actively continue to shape the lives of many of the former migrants.
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Books by Marcia C. Schenck
Edited Volume with De Gruyter, 2021
This open access edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting ... more This open access edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110623543/html
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes t... more 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.
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This thesis situates the current ‡Khomani claims to land in their historical context. Examining t... more This thesis situates the current ‡Khomani claims to land in their historical context. Examining the nexus between land, economic choices, power, and identity, I analyze the construction of the "Bushman myth "in South Africa as it relates to the ‡Khomani San of the Northern Cape. The myth refers to stereotypical depictions of “Bushmen” based on invented traditions. These traditions are depicted as atavistic manifestations of a historically immutable Bushman ethnicity. Stressing their timelessness and isolation, the Bushman myth thus disregards the San’s internal dialectics and fluid social worlds as well as their historical and local relationships to non-San; nevertheless it has come to define the life of the so-called Bain’s Bushmen and their descendants during the last 80 years. By tracing the development, application, and appropriation of the Bushman myth and its power to define traditions, I hope to contribute towards a much-needed discussion in the present about multiple identities and ‡Khomani ethnicity.
Motivated by a desire to understand the difficulties the ‡Khomani community is facing today, I set out to trace the development of San identity and its relationship to land and the political economy through the past 150 years. My thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the Northern Cape in South Africa from Cape Town to Upington and on the ‡Khomani land in January and summer 2008. I conducted 42 unstructured and semi-structured interviews with community members and others ranging from lawyers, government officials, to NGO consultants, and engaged in participant observation. The archival work is based on government records, newspaper articles, correspondence, and ethnographic studies collected in six South African archives.
BA thesis, summa cum laude in history
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des Centrums für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM) ist die temporäre oder permanente Wiedereingliederung von indonesischen Rückkehrenden Fachkräften in den indonesischen Arbeitsmarkt und damit verbunden die Nutzung ihres einzigartigen Wissens.
Das zentrale Ziel dieser Studie ist es, zwei Schlüsselkonzepte der RF-Komponente empirisch zu untersuchen. Die zugrundeliegenden Annahmen lauten, dass die Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte erstens als
Agents of Change und Multiplikatoren durch ihre in Deutschland erworbenen Erfahrungen und Expertise zu der Entwicklung Indonesiens beitragen und zweitens dank ihrer sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Verbindungen als Brückenbauer zwischen Deutschland und Indonesien agieren.
Für die empirische Untersuchung wurden das Leistungsangebot und die zwei Schlüsselkonzepte der RF-Komponente mit den Erfahrungen und Sichtweisen der Akteure vor Ort kontrastiert. Die Erfahrungen
in Indonesien wurden auf der Grundlage von 64 Interviews mit Rückkehrenden Fachkräften, Alumni, Arbeitgebern und anderen Personen aus dem sozialen Umfeld der Fachkräfte erhoben.
Die Interviews ermöglichten eine kritische Würdigung der einzelnen Leistungen der Programmkomponente: Der Gehaltszuschuss wird als zentrales Element wahrgenommen, das auf vielfältigste Art
und Weise zur Verbesserung der Lebenssituation der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte beiträgt. Reise- und Transportkostenzuschüsse sowie die Unterstützung durch Arbeitsplatzausstattung wurden ebenfalls
positiv bewertet, wobei insbesondere letztere aufgrund komplexer Antragsverfahren und Überführung der Ausstattung in den Besitz des Arbeitgebers auch kritisiert wird. Zudem wurde deutlich, dass
zusätzliche Leistungen wie Vernetzungsreisen und Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen oder Vorstellungsreisen
in Indonesien bislang nur selten in Anspruch genommen werden.
Darüber hinaus zeigt die empirische Untersuchung, dass das Potential der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte als Brückenbauer zwischen Indonesien und Deutschland häufig noch ungenutzt bleibt. Zum
einen haben die Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte selbst nur ein vages Verständnis ihrer eigenen Rolle als Brückenbauer, zum anderen mangelt es ihnen an ausreichender Vernetzung. Vielmehr steht in
Indonesien der multidirektionale Prozess der Wissenskreation im Fokus. Es wurde deutlich, dass Rückkehrer ihre in Deutschland gelebten Erfahrungen an ihre indonesische Lebenswelt anpassen und dadurch idiosynkratrische neue Ideen und Ansätze verfolgen. Wissen wird nicht nur transferiert, sondern transformiert.
Um die Potentiale der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte noch besser zu fördern, empfiehlt sich eine kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung der Komponente. Hierfür liefert die Studie wichtige Empfehlungen: So
sollte z. B. die Alumni- und Vernetzungsarbeit gestärkt werden, um die Potentiale der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte als Agents of Change und Brückenbauer noch besser zu aktivieren.
style, we discuss the issue of scale in global history and elaborate on what working with subjects who move transnationally through a Cold-War-influenced world means for our projects on, in Schenck’s case, Angolan and Mozambican labor and education migrants to East Germany in the late 1970s and 1980s. As for Kim, she studies South Korean youth travelers and tour participants who journeyed abroad before and after the full liberalization of overseas travel in 1989. Shedding light on two different sides of the iron curtain, the chronological overlap produced similar insights into the “hot cold war” and the importance of the state in relation to mobility. In explicitly discussing global mobile lives of non-elite actors as a methodological approach to the writing of global history, we engage with issues of scale, units, archives, collaboration and the relationship between history and the present for and in which the historian is writing.
Books by Marcia C. Schenck
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.
Motivated by a desire to understand the difficulties the ‡Khomani community is facing today, I set out to trace the development of San identity and its relationship to land and the political economy through the past 150 years. My thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the Northern Cape in South Africa from Cape Town to Upington and on the ‡Khomani land in January and summer 2008. I conducted 42 unstructured and semi-structured interviews with community members and others ranging from lawyers, government officials, to NGO consultants, and engaged in participant observation. The archival work is based on government records, newspaper articles, correspondence, and ethnographic studies collected in six South African archives.
BA thesis, summa cum laude in history
Chapters by Marcia C. Schenck
des Centrums für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM) ist die temporäre oder permanente Wiedereingliederung von indonesischen Rückkehrenden Fachkräften in den indonesischen Arbeitsmarkt und damit verbunden die Nutzung ihres einzigartigen Wissens.
Das zentrale Ziel dieser Studie ist es, zwei Schlüsselkonzepte der RF-Komponente empirisch zu untersuchen. Die zugrundeliegenden Annahmen lauten, dass die Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte erstens als
Agents of Change und Multiplikatoren durch ihre in Deutschland erworbenen Erfahrungen und Expertise zu der Entwicklung Indonesiens beitragen und zweitens dank ihrer sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Verbindungen als Brückenbauer zwischen Deutschland und Indonesien agieren.
Für die empirische Untersuchung wurden das Leistungsangebot und die zwei Schlüsselkonzepte der RF-Komponente mit den Erfahrungen und Sichtweisen der Akteure vor Ort kontrastiert. Die Erfahrungen
in Indonesien wurden auf der Grundlage von 64 Interviews mit Rückkehrenden Fachkräften, Alumni, Arbeitgebern und anderen Personen aus dem sozialen Umfeld der Fachkräfte erhoben.
Die Interviews ermöglichten eine kritische Würdigung der einzelnen Leistungen der Programmkomponente: Der Gehaltszuschuss wird als zentrales Element wahrgenommen, das auf vielfältigste Art
und Weise zur Verbesserung der Lebenssituation der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte beiträgt. Reise- und Transportkostenzuschüsse sowie die Unterstützung durch Arbeitsplatzausstattung wurden ebenfalls
positiv bewertet, wobei insbesondere letztere aufgrund komplexer Antragsverfahren und Überführung der Ausstattung in den Besitz des Arbeitgebers auch kritisiert wird. Zudem wurde deutlich, dass
zusätzliche Leistungen wie Vernetzungsreisen und Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen oder Vorstellungsreisen
in Indonesien bislang nur selten in Anspruch genommen werden.
Darüber hinaus zeigt die empirische Untersuchung, dass das Potential der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte als Brückenbauer zwischen Indonesien und Deutschland häufig noch ungenutzt bleibt. Zum
einen haben die Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte selbst nur ein vages Verständnis ihrer eigenen Rolle als Brückenbauer, zum anderen mangelt es ihnen an ausreichender Vernetzung. Vielmehr steht in
Indonesien der multidirektionale Prozess der Wissenskreation im Fokus. Es wurde deutlich, dass Rückkehrer ihre in Deutschland gelebten Erfahrungen an ihre indonesische Lebenswelt anpassen und dadurch idiosynkratrische neue Ideen und Ansätze verfolgen. Wissen wird nicht nur transferiert, sondern transformiert.
Um die Potentiale der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte noch besser zu fördern, empfiehlt sich eine kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung der Komponente. Hierfür liefert die Studie wichtige Empfehlungen: So
sollte z. B. die Alumni- und Vernetzungsarbeit gestärkt werden, um die Potentiale der Rückkehrenden Fachkräfte als Agents of Change und Brückenbauer noch besser zu aktivieren.
style, we discuss the issue of scale in global history and elaborate on what working with subjects who move transnationally through a Cold-War-influenced world means for our projects on, in Schenck’s case, Angolan and Mozambican labor and education migrants to East Germany in the late 1970s and 1980s. As for Kim, she studies South Korean youth travelers and tour participants who journeyed abroad before and after the full liberalization of overseas travel in 1989. Shedding light on two different sides of the iron curtain, the chronological overlap produced similar insights into the “hot cold war” and the importance of the state in relation to mobility. In explicitly discussing global mobile lives of non-elite actors as a methodological approach to the writing of global history, we engage with issues of scale, units, archives, collaboration and the relationship between history and the present for and in which the historian is writing.
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.
Motivated by a desire to understand the difficulties the ‡Khomani community is facing today, I set out to trace the development of San identity and its relationship to land and the political economy through the past 150 years. My thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the Northern Cape in South Africa from Cape Town to Upington and on the ‡Khomani land in January and summer 2008. I conducted 42 unstructured and semi-structured interviews with community members and others ranging from lawyers, government officials, to NGO consultants, and engaged in participant observation. The archival work is based on government records, newspaper articles, correspondence, and ethnographic studies collected in six South African archives.
BA thesis, summa cum laude in history
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erforderlichen Humanressourcen als auch der Befriedigung des ostdeutschen Bedarfs an Arbeitskräften, Rohstoffen und Produktivitätssteigerungen. Die Auszubildenden sollten in gemeinsamen Projekten im Herkunftsland vom Bergbau über die Landwirtschaft bis hin zur Textilindustrie eingesetzt werden. Wenige der ostdeutschen Wirtschaftsinitiativen in Angola und Mosambik wurden jedoch verwirklicht.
Rezensiert von: Marcia C. Schenck, Interna- tionales Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg Ar- beit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive (re:work), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
You can find the full blog entry here https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/02/28/between-hammer-machete-and-kalashnikov-contract-labor-migration-from-angola-and-mozambique-to-east-germany-1979-1990/
Director: Jack Davis
Producer: Marcia C. Schenck
About 21.000 Mozambican labor migrants worked and were educated in East Germany on government contracts in various industries between 1979 and the early 1990s. It was Mozambican President Samora Machel's vision that these skilled laborers would upon return home contribute to the development of the young independent nation. With the civil war in Mozambique and the transition from socialism to capitalism in both countries history derailed this endeavor. Today, many workers live a marginalized life, still waiting to be useful, waiting for a job and waiting for a percentage of the wages that were transferred to the Mozambican government during the 1980s. “Republic of the Mind” examines the memories of and nostalgia for East Germany and the People’s Republic of Mozambique through the eyes of a prominent Madjerman in the year 2014. He illustrates not only Mozambique’s failed socialist experiment but also the loss of idealism and nationalism in the years following the death of Samora Machel.
“Republic of the Mind” is part of a series of short documentaries by Jack Davis dealing with contemporary Mozambique called “Cosmopolitan Wild.” Each film in the series examines a different character or region of Mozambique through the lens of the country’s current economic, socio-political and environmental uncertainty, focusing primarily on questions of migration, memory and home.
relations and their legacies between African and East German actors like governments, institutions,
contract workers, students, traders, trade unionists, freedom fighters, and many more. We especially
welcome contributions that emphasize African influences on East German institutions, governments,
ideology, economy, and the host society at large. Furthermore, we are interested in studies that engage
the East German sojourns in various African nations. While our focus remains on African and East
German relations, we also welcome contributions that discuss African relations with other socialist
countries by way of comparison.
chooses the factory as a unit of analysis. The focus is on inquiring new methodological and
epistemological perspectives on the subject in order to explore the historical and contemporary
dynamics of capitalism at the point of production in an interdisciplinary fashion. The workshop
aims to initiated a collaborative, interdisciplinary conversation preliminary to the preparation of
a thematic issue on factory as an object of inquiry to be submitted to journals such as History &
Anthropology or International Labor and Working‐Class History. Participants to the workshop will
contribute to establish an agenda for research, the themes to be explored in the issue and invited
to submit their papers for consideration.