Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
	The Lives of Others: Precarious Bodies and Self-Fashioning
	Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Belonging: Deep Equality and Diasporic Cultures
	Dreams, Memories, and Storytelling: Applied Theatre and Communities of Praxis
	References
Part I: The Lives of Others: Precarious Bodies and Self-Fashioning
	Precarious Bodies in Performance Activism and Theatres of Migration
		Theoretical Premise and Hypothesis
		The Dead are Coming, 2015: A Brief Example
		(Dead) Body as Evidence: Truth Versus Fiction
		Bodies of Excitement: On Audience Participation
		Conclusion
		References
	Spectacular Bodies, Unsettling Objects: Material Performance as Intervention in Stereotypes of Refugees
		Rice and Abjection
		Mapping and Metaxis
		Stereotyped Images and Decaying Photographs
		Conclusion
		References
	Theatrical Border Crossings: Stereotypes against Realism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee
		The Border Between Stereotype and Realism
		Enforcing Borders: Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven
		Crossing Borders: The Shipment
		References
	The Suitcase as a Neurotic Container in the Israeli Theatre: The Return of the Wandering Jew
		Jewish Utopia and Dystopia: Wandering in Space and Time
		The Poetics of Suitcases
		The Jewish-Israeli Immigrant Suitcase: Biblical Homeland as Utopia
		The Jewish-Israeli Emigrant’s Suitcase: Homeland as Dystopia
		Holocaust and the Jewish Refugee’s Suitcase: A Spiritual Homeland
		From Biblical to Palestinian Suitcases: Homecoming and Israel’s Wars
		Conclusion
		References
	Keeping the Candle Aflame: Andrey Tarkovsky’s Search for Spirituality in a Foreign Land
		References
Part II: Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Belonging: Deep Equality and Diasporic Cultures
	Read Her Lips: The Ban on Wearing the Niqab and Burqa at the Canadian Citizenship Ceremony 2011–2015
		Contemporary Context
		The Historical Context: Egypt
		Religion(s) in Context: Communities of Interpretations
		The Deeper Principle: Read Her Lips
		Canadian Politics and Geopolitical Narratives: Egypt, Again?
		From Horizontal Inequality to Deep Equality
		Conclusion: Read Her Editorial
		References
	Tasting the Nation: Food, Identity, and Belonging in Canada
		Food as an Analytical Lens
		Pies, Tarts, and Poutine
		The Halifax Donair and the Japadog
		The Canuck Burger, the Canadian Pizza, and the Springtime Canadian Dosa
		Conclusion
		References
	Mobility and Cultural Citizenship: The Making of a Senegalese Diaspora in Multiethnic Brazil
		Images and Profiles of Senegalese Migrants in Brazil
		Contesting Spaces, Shaping Places and Identities
		Local Responses and Policy Implications
		Conclusion
		References
	Performance Patterns and Athletic Migration During the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games
		National Preparations
		Origin Points
		Audiences
		Global Politics
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Dreams, Memories, and Storytelling: Applied Theatre and Communities of Praxis
	Forced Migration, Memory, and Testimony
		Documenting Memories of War
		Methodology
		Prolonged War and the Process of Trauma
		Oral Testimony and Somalis
		The Challenge of Documenting Tribal and Gendered Memories of War
		Telling My Own Story of Displacement and Migration
		Documenting My Participants’ Stories of Displacement and Migration
		Conclusion
		References
	Claiming Their Voice: Foreign Memories on the Post-Brexit Stage
		Migrants’ Agency Over Their Representation
		Creating and Sustaining “Welcoming Environments”
		“Foreign” Memories as a Springboard for Encounters
		References
	Challenging Stereotypes: Moving Dreams and the Italian Community of Peterborough, UK
		Cultural Identities and Communities: Applied Theatre in Global, Regional, and Social Contexts
		Italian Diaspora: A Brief Overview from 1861 to Present
		The First Development of Moving Dreams
		How We Analysed the Stereotypes Transfer: Who Are the Modern WOPs?
		The Social Cycle of These Stereotypes: Staggering Similarities
		Project Participants and Their Contributions to the Play Text
		Intergenerational Practice and Breaking Stereotypes
		Performance-devising Process: Subcultures, Identification, Community Consensus, and the Power of Conveying Positive Memories
		The Performance: Synopsis and Provocations
		Endings, Evaluation, and Potential Evolutions of Moving Dreams
		References
	Breaking Stereotypes: Afrika! and In the Waiting Room of the Dreams: Two Theatrical Projects with Refugees in German Border Cities Close to France
		References
	Mapping Memory Routes: A Multisensory Digital Approach to Art, Migration, and Critical Heritage Studies
		The Beginnings
		Radical Empathy in the Digital Archive
		Community Participation and Socially Engaged Artistic Practice
		Intangible Multisensory Heritage and Augmented Reality
		Conclusion
		References
Index