10 Paths Are Made by Walking: Memories of Being a Mozambican Contract Worker in the GDR

Alberto, Ibraimo; Schenck, Marcia C.

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“…However, a recent collaborative article in English by Alberto and Schenck (2021) focuses on the Mozambican German's life as a celebrated boxer in the GDR who advanced from worker in a meat-processing plant to group leader. After 1990, Alberto served as the Ausländerbeauftragter in Schwedt, Brandenburg, where he became active in anti-racist campaigns (Alberto & Schenck, 2021;Graupner, 2017). The essay provides much-needed context for students in both English and German courses.…”

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“…Some resources are appropriate for students both at the elementary level and in German Studies courses taught in English. As noted above, Schenck's biographical sketch of Alberto (Alberto & Schenck, 2021) is an excellent source of information about the life of a Mozambican contract worker. Subtitled films such as Okpako's 2003 Tal der Ahnungslosen and the feature film Wir sind jung.…”

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Migrationsland DDR? Recuperating the Histories of Non‐European Vertragsarbeiterinnen* in the GDR and Beyond

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The current focus on diversity and inclusion amid calls to decolonize the German curriculum prompts us once again to examine what we understand to be “German” about German Studies. This article pursues this agenda by addressing a lacuna in our understanding and representation of migrants to Germany, specifically the presence, history, and legacies of labor migrants to East Germany. The first half of this article contextualizes the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) recruitment of foreign workers and examines key similarities and differences between the East and West German guest worker program models. This section focuses particularly on the labor migrants recruited from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the People's Republic of Mozambique – the largest cohorts of non‐European workers recruited by the GDR – and concludes with a brief overview of the long afterlife of the Vertragsarbeiter*innen through the Wende, reunification, and beyond. The second section offers a range of texts and assignments keyed to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) guidelines for integrating the narratives of Vertragsarbeiter*innen into German language and Studies curricula. Recuperating the history of non‐European contract workers in East Germany serves to expand our conception of German Studies and to dismantle artificially exclusive boundaries, thereby working toward the deterritorialization of the discipline.

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Migrationsland DDR? Recuperating the Histories of Non‐European Vertragsarbeiterinnen* in the GDR and Beyond

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Handlungsmacht von Vertragsarbeitenden im Ostberlin der späten DDR

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2022

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Der vorliegende Aufsatz verfolgt die These, dass DDR-Vertragsarbeitende aktive Subjekte mit eigenständiger Handlungsmacht waren. Trotz staatlicher Restriktionen gelang es ihnen, Agency über das für sie vorgesehene Maß hinaus zu entwickeln, indem sie Kritik an ihren Lebensumständen übten, durch individuelle Handlungen Restriktionen unterliefen oder sich innersowie außerhalb staatlicher Strukturen organisierten. Ausgewählte Beispiele zeigen, dass Vertragsarbeitende nicht nur passiv restriktiven Strukturen unterlagen, sondern diese partiell auch transformierten.

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10 Paths Are Made by Walking: Memories of Being a Mozambican Contract Worker in the GDR

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Migrationsland DDR? Recuperating the Histories of Non‐European Vertragsarbeiterinnen* in the GDR and Beyond

Migrationsland DDR? Recuperating the Histories of Non‐European Vertragsarbeiterinnen* in the GDR and Beyond

Handlungsmacht von Vertragsarbeitenden im Ostberlin der späten DDR

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Handlungsmacht von Vertragsarbeitenden im Ostberlin der späten DDR

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Migrationsland DDR? Recuperating the Histories of Non‐European Vertragsarbeiterinnen* in the GDR and Beyond

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