Contemporary Representations of Forced Migration in Europe: Beyond Regime and Refuge

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Chapter
	The Limitations of Art
	Narratives of European Hostipitality
	Troubling Categories
	Resisting Refugee Narratability
	Overview of the Volume
	References
Part I: Art and Activism by and with Refugees
	Chapter 2: The Trojans Project: Therapeutic Drama from Syria to Scotland
		Chapter
			The Project’s Background and Aims
				Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling (Producers)
		‘We Wanted the Scottish Audiences to Know That We Are Not Here on Vacation’
			Heba Alwadi, Performer
		‘There is a little difference between love and pity’
			Essam Rabie, Performer
		‘Art and Drama Are a Safer Way to Help Millions Understand the Worst Tragedy Ever in an Hour or So’
			Sana’a Al Froukh, Performer
		References
	Chapter 3: Channelling and Challenging the ‘imperative to tell’: Reflections on Negotiating Representations of Refugeeness from Practice-Based Performance Research
		Introduction
		Critical Responses to the Staging of Suffering
		Resisting the Presentation of Individual Suffering
		Examining the Burden of Representation
		Artistic Interventions as Self-representation
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: ‘To live well is to story well’: Co-writing and Polyphonic Writing with Denmark’s Asylum Community
		‘Start here’
		Polyphonic Writing, Performance Writing, and Epistemic Injustice
		‘B/ordering’: Trampoline House and the Danish Asylum System
		Writing Workshops, Documenta 15, This Is a Guest Book
		‘To live well is to story well’: Writing Polyphonically
		Widening Space: ‘It helped me to bring out my story’
		References
	Chapter 5: Life in Detention: Journey and Border
		National Borders: Unknowns
		Forms of Detention: Asylum and Refugee Camps
		Detention
		Internal Borders: Detention, Labels
		Internal Borders: Integration, Theatrical Practice
		References
	Chapter 6: Carceral Witnessing and the Spatial Imagination
		Introduction
		Immigration Detention and Carceral Witnessing
		‘Detained Voices’ and Mobilising Access to Immigration Detention
		Articulating ‘Refusal’ in Witness Demands
		Listening as a Spatial-Political Practice in Detained Voices
		Transforming Silence into Action
		(Counter) Infrastructural Demands
		Building Solidarities in the Space ‘in-between’
		Conclusion
		References
			Reports, Media Sources, and Related Sources
			Detained Voices
Part II: Challenging Representations of Refugees
	Chapter 7: ‘She is the meteor and I, her space’: Co-Becoming and Biopolitical Trauma in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail
		Introduction
		Misreading Abigail: The Biopolitics of Compassion
		Encountering Abigail: Transubstantiation and Co-Becoming
		Theorising Abigail: Co-constitution and Corporeal Vulnerability
			Seeing Abigail: Reading Criticality and Mapping Becoming
			Honouring Abigail: Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Unsettled: Narrative Strategies in Exhibitions About the ‘Refugee Crisis’
		Genres of Refugee Crisis Narrative
		Laboratory of Dilemmas: A Fake Document of Its Time
		Passage and Love Story: Acting the Part
		Barca Nostra: Unreliable Narrators and Uncanny Dockings
		Conclusion: Unsettling Catharses
		References
	Chapter 9: Archaeologies of Nonentity in Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope
		Introduction: Contexts of Enquiry
		‘In the Shadow of Bright Policy Lights’
		Nordic Hospitality
		Etymologies of Dwelling
		Voice, Authority, and Authenticity
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 10: Beyond Objectifying the Humane: Memory in Media and Political Genres
		Introduction
		Genre, Objectification and Memory
		Objectifying and De-objectifying the Humane
			Exodus—Our Journey to Europe
			Parliamentary Debates on Syrian Refugees
		Discussion and Concluding Remarks
		Transcription Key
		References
	Chapter 11: Wolves in the Sanctuary: Ecopolitics and Forced Migration in the Literature of the Anthropocene
		Chapter
		Migrants and Wolves in Germany
		Roland Schimmelpfennig and László Krasnahorkai
			Wolves and Migration in the UK: From Dracula to Sarah Hall
		References
	Chapter 12: Remapping the Borderlands of Britain: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and the Enduring Legacy of Imperial Frontier Policing
		Chapter
		Borderlands and Spaces of Exception: The “Calais Jungle” and the Reverberation of Imperial Spaces of Belonging
		At the Borderland, Figures of the Intimate Stranger and Celebrations of Britishness
		Conclusion
		References
Index