Migration and Forced Labor in the Social Imaginary of Southern Mozambique, 1920–1964

Hector Guerra Hernandez () has been a Professor of African History at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) since August 2012. He earned his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2011 from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), after earning a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary History and Sociology at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin in Germany in 2005. He has experience in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology and History, and conducts research into postcolonialism, postsocialism, ideology and culture, international migration and social conflicts. He spent many years conducting research into Latin American migration and social conflict in European contexts, before taking up his current research projects into the history and politics of southern Africa, with a particular focus on Mozambique.