Cold War of Labor Migrants - Opportunities, Struggles Adaptations Across Iron Curtain Beyond

This book overturns conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Cold War of labor migrants-Opportunities, struggles and adaptations across the Iron Curtain and beyond 1. The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: A synthesis and review of the literature 2. Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: Assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period 3. Mapping the mobility of Azerbaijani Soviet engineers: Linking West and East? 4. On the forest front: Labor relations and seasonal migration in 1960s-80s 5. From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism. (Post)-migrant media in postcolonial France 6. 'They were like soldiers': The case of the Polish builders in Czechoslovakia and their perception by Czechs (1967-1990) 7. Theory and process of socialist migration: Local enmities and international friendships in the Vietnam-Bulgaria relations (1975-1985) 8. Albanian labor migration, the Yugoslav private sector and its Cold War context 9. The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: the case of Yugoslav-Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980-1991) Afterword

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sara Bernard is Lecturer in Societal Transformation at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the post- 1945 migration history of South- Eastern Europe, with a focus on socialist Yugoslavia.
Rory Archer is a social historian whose research focuses on labor, gender, migration, and racialized ethnicity in socialist Yugoslavia. He works as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the University of Graz, Austria.
Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos studies postwar migration within Europe and to overseas destinations, with a focus on the impact of Cold War in human mobility. He works at the Department of History of Cities, Diaspora and Immigration, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS-FORTH) Rethymno and is teaching at the Studies in Greek Civilization (ELP) program at the Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sara Archer Bernard
• Mitarbeit: Archer Rory (Herausgeber), Sara Bernard (Herausgeber), Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.11.2025
• EAN: 9781041135005
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4113500-5
• Seiten: 184
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Regional Studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity