The Cold War of Labor Migrants: Opportunities, Struggles and Adaptations Across the Iron Curtain and Beyond

This book overturns conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.

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 Social Historian whose research focuses on labour, gender, migration and racialised ethnicity in socialist Yugoslavia.

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.