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Praktiken der Grenzbearbeitung in den Lebensgeschichten der "DDR-Kinder aus Namibia"

Dealing with boundaries: An analysis of the biographies of the "GDR Children of Namibia"
[journal article]

Witte, Matthias D.
Schmitt, Caroline
Polat, Serpil
Niekrenz, Yvonne

Abstract

"Im Rahmen eines Solidaritätsprojektes zwischen der South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) und der DDR wurden von 1979 bis 1989 ca. 430 namibische Kinder in die DDR gebracht, um zur Elite eines zukünftig befreiten Namibias ausgebildet zu werden. In diesem Beitrag fragen wir unter Rückgriff... view more

"Im Rahmen eines Solidaritätsprojektes zwischen der South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) und der DDR wurden von 1979 bis 1989 ca. 430 namibische Kinder in die DDR gebracht, um zur Elite eines zukünftig befreiten Namibias ausgebildet zu werden. In diesem Beitrag fragen wir unter Rückgriff auf empirisches Material nach Praktiken der Grenzbearbeitung im Rahmen des länderübergreifenden Betreuungskontextes und nach der Rückführung der Kinder und Jugendlichen im Jahr 1990. Entlang der biografischen Stationen Flüchtlingslager, Kinderheim, Internatsschule und Rückführung rekonstruieren wir, wie und durch wen Grenzen - vor allem zwischen SWAPO bzw. Namibia und DDR - (re)produziert, aber auch verflochten und irritiert wurden." (Autorenreferat)... view less


"As part of a solidarity project between the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) and the GDR, approximately 430 Namibian children were brought to the GDR from 1979 to 1989 in order to be trained to be part of the elite of a prospective liberated Namibia. In this paper, we used empirical... view more

"As part of a solidarity project between the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) and the GDR, approximately 430 Namibian children were brought to the GDR from 1979 to 1989 in order to be trained to be part of the elite of a prospective liberated Namibia. In this paper, we used empirical data to investigate the processes of dealing with boundaries within the children's border-crossing care situation and also after their repatriation to Namibia in 1990. Along the biographical points of the refugee camp, the children's home, the boarding school and the repatriation, we reconstruct how and by whom borders - especially between the SWAPO respectively Namibia, and the GDR - have been (re)produced, but also integrated and irritated." (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
education; life career; German Democratic Republic (GDR); school; Africa; child; Southern Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; Namibia; developing country

Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood

Document language
German

Publication Year
2014

Page/Pages
p. 481-495

Journal
Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung / Discourse. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research, 9 (2014) 4

ISSN
1862-5002

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0


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