TY - BOOK ED - Burton, Eric ED - Dietrich, Anne ED - Harisch, Immanuel R. ED - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Navigating Socialist Encounters BT - Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War N2 - This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories. KW - GDR KW - East Germany KW - Cold War KW - Migration KW - Global History Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-11-062354-3 SN - 978-3-11-062231-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623543 PB - De Gruyter CY - Oldenburg ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Africa’s forgotten refugee convention Africa is a Country T2 - Histories of Refuge - Geschichten der Zuflucht Y1 - 2020 UR - https://africasacountry.com/2020/11/africas-forgotten-refugee-convention PB - Forum Transregionale Studien eV CY - Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - History without borders BT - How historians engage in humanitarian work T2 - African Refugees Crossroads Y1 - 2020 UR - https://networks.h-net.org/node/6630600/blog/history-without-borders-how-historians-engage-humanitarian-work/6929027/history#reply-6929028 PB - H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online CY - East Lansing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Wandergesellen des Kalten Krieges BT - Arbeits- und Ausbildungsmigration von Angola und Mosambik nach Ostdeutschland und zurück T2 - Für Respekt und Anerkennung: Die mosambikanischen Vertragsarbeiter und das schwierige Erbe aus der DDR N2 - Der Umgang mit einem schwierigen Erbe 2019 befasste sich die internationale Tagung »Respekt und Anerkennung« mit der Entwicklungszusammen­arbeit Mosambik-Deutschland unter dem Schwerpunktthema Vertrags­arbeit. Anlass war der 40. Jahrestag des 1979 geschlossenen Staatsvertrages der VR Mosambik mit der DDR. Der nun erscheinende Tagungsband enthält u. a. Beiträge zu den Themen »Die Lebenswege der SchülerInnen der Schule der Freundschaft in Staßfurt«, »DDR-­ExpertInnen in Mosambik«, »Wie aus Vertragsarbeitern Madgermanes wurden« und »Auf dem Weg zu Respekt und Anerkennung: Sind wir für die Versöhnung?«. Ein Dokumentenanhang ergänzt den Band. Mit Beiträgen von Katrin Baar, António Daniel, Hans-Joachim Döring, António Frangoulis, Rainer Grajek, Adelino Massuvira João, Lázaro Magalhães, Dinis Matsolo, Francisca Raposo, Marcia C. Schenck, Ralf Straßburg, Mathias Tullner und Cesare Zucconi. KW - Migration, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Mosambik Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-96311-314-7 SP - 103 EP - 114 PB - Mitteldeutscher Verlag CY - Halle ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Small Strangers at the School of Friendship BT - Memories of Mozambican School Students to the German Democratic Republic JF - German Historical Institute Bulletin: German Historical Institute Washington Bulletin N2 - “Why,” Francisca Isidro wonders, “did we have to leave our families and move so far away, only to come back as cooks, waitresses, sales assistants, and the like?” And she recalls: “We came back from our time in East Germany with professions that were not held in particu-larly high regard in Mozambique. Nobody understood why we didn’t return as engineers, doctors and teachers. ‘A waitress?,’ they would wonder. ‘Why, they could have become a waitress in Mozambique. Nobody needs to spend so many years in school for that.’”2And with that, Ms. Isidro puts her fi nger right on a misapprehension at the heart of an ambitious state-led education migration program that saw 900 Mozambican children attend the School of Friendship (Schule der Freundschaft , SdF) in Staßfurt in the district of Magdeburg, in what today is Saxony-Anhalt, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) from 1982 to 1988.3 Ms. Isidro returned to Mozambique as a trained salesperson for clothing, a profession she neither chose nor ever worked in again subsequently. Like her, these 900 children had to navigate the diverging values that particular environments bestowed upon knowledge. What they learned was interpreted diff erently in their home communities, at the SdF, and in their German host families KW - Migration, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Mosambik, Schule der Freundschaft Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-494614 UR - https://perspectivia.net/publikationen/bulletin-of-the-ghi-washington-supplements VL - 2020 IS - 15: Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives SP - 41 EP - 59 PB - German Historical Institute CY - Washington ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World BT - Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany T3 - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series N2 - 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. KW - Open access KW - Third World KW - Second World KW - East Germany KW - Angola KW - Mozambique KW - Socialism KW - Labor Migration Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-031-06778-5 SN - 978-3-031-06776-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1 SN - 2634-6273 SN - 2634-6281 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wetzel, Johanna M. A1 - Reed, Kate A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - "Writing with my professors” BT - contesting the boundaries of the field in the Global History Dialogues Project T2 - Writing Together: Kollaboratives Schreiben mit Personen aus dem Feld N2 - Kollaboratives Forschen quer zu hegemonialen Wissensordnungen gilt als wichtiger Baustein dekolonialer Wissenspraxis. Gemeinsame Schreibprozesse von Wissenschaftler*innen und ihren nicht-wissenschaftlichen Forschungspartner*innen sind allerdings selten und eine methodologische und forschungspraktische Reflexion fehlt. Die Beiträger*innen widmen sich diesen Lücken, indem sie erfolgreiche, aber auch gescheiterte Projekte kollaborativer Textproduktion zwischen Universität und Feld vorstellen und auf ihr Potenzial als transformative und dekoloniale Wissenspraxis befragen. So entsteht eine praktische Orientierungshilfe, die gleichzeitig die interdisziplinäre Diskussion anregt. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-8394-6399-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839463994-002 VL - 45 SP - 31 EP - 53 PB - Transcript Verlag CY - Bielefeld ER -