Abstract
Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany’s epilogue walks the reader through the book’s themes through a discussion of the cover image of this book titled Remembering the GDR painted by Mozambican artist Dito Tembe in 2021. Leading with the book’s theme of dualities, it features the chapter’s sub-arguments about production and consumption, inclusion and exclusion, loss and gain, and nostalgic memories and eastalgia fueling present-day claim-making. The workers’ life courses and migration experiences situate them as part of an interconnected socialist world during the global Cold War. After the collapse of the socialist project on both sides of the Equator the axes of socialist, decolonial connectivity which allowed Africans of elite and non-elite backgrounds to crisscross the African continent and the Second World waned. Following this example avoids reinscribing a teleological narrative of increased connections under capitalist globalization. It reveals a socialist globalization process that existed in parallel yet intertwined. Migrations can help map the transnational world created in the space in between the Second and the Third Worlds.KeywordsSocialist globalizationSecond and Third WorldsTransnational labor migrationEast GermanyMozambiqueAngola
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