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From Luanda and Maputo to Berlin
Uncovering Angolan and Mozambican Migrants’ Motives to Move to the German Democratic Republic (1979–1990)
MARCIA C. SCHENCK
African Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 202-234; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.202
MARCIA C. SCHENCK
Marcia C. Schenck () is a PhD candidate in history at Princeton University. Her dissertation focuses on life histories of labor migrants from Angola and Mozambique to the former East Germany. She holds an MSc in African studies from the University of Oxford and a BA, summa cum laude, in international relations from Mount Holyoke College. Her previous work discussed San land rights and ethnicity in South Africa and Namibia. Her research interests include oral history, memory, migration, development, and labor history.
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African Economic History
Vol. 44, Issue 1
16 Nov 2016
From Luanda and Maputo to Berlin
MARCIA C. SCHENCK
African Economic History Nov 2016, 44 (1) 202-234; DOI: 10.3368/aeh.44.1.202
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- Article
- Abstract
- Introduction1
- Reasons to Migrate
- Labor Migration: “German businesses asked for a Mozambican workforce, but people came.”18
- Educational Migration: “I felt selected for the days to come and everything was a project of the future.”36
- War Migration: “The military was an awful place to be. They scraped your head and collected baskets of fresh blood.”46
- Emotions and Migration: “ . . . this was my chance to see Europe.”59
- Conclusion
- Footnotes
- Info & Metrics
- References
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