Wife, Daughter, Sister, Smuggler: Gendered Labour Mobility and Consumption across the Polish-East German Border, 1980-1989
Article published in Crime Histoire & Sociétés/Crime, History and Societies, 29, 2 (2025), 113–132. Abstract: Faced with problems of shortage on both sides of their shared border, East Germany and Poland imposed export bans and travel restrictions in the 1980s that criminalized as “smuggling” the cross-border circulation of even ordinary household goods. In this context,…
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