Madgermanes
Weyhe, Birgit / Derbyshire, Katy
Madgermanes' is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20, 000 of them were sent from the People's Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them lost their residency status. Decades later, they are still waitingfor most of their wages to be paid.Birgit Weyhe depicts their search for belonging...