1st Edition
The Cold War of Labor Migrants Opportunities, Struggles and Adaptations across the Iron Curtain and Beyond
Introduction: The Cold War of labor migrants—Opportunities, struggles and adaptations across the Iron Curtain and beyond
Rory Archer, Sara Bernard and Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos
1. The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: A synthesis and review of the literature
Sara Bernard
2. Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: Assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period
Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos and Giota Tourgeli
3. Mapping the mobility of Azerbaijani Soviet engineers: Linking West and East?
Leyla Sayfutdinova
4. On the forest front: Labor relations and seasonal migration in 1960s–80s
Kateryna Burkush
5. From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism. (Post)-migrant media in postcolonial France
Christian Jacobs
6. ‘They were like soldiers’: The case of the Polish builders in Czechoslovakia and their perception by Czechs (1967–1990)
Ondřej Klípa
7. Theory and process of socialist migration: Local enmities and international friendships in the Vietnam-Bulgaria relations (1975–1985)
Raia Apostolova
8. Albanian labor migration, the Yugoslav private sector and its Cold War context
Rory Archer
9. The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: The case of Yugoslav–Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991)
Deana Jovanović and Dragan Stojmenović
Afterword
Rory Archer, Sara Bernard and Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos
Biography
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.
