Cold War of Labor Migrants

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.

• 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