Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Daniel McNeil, Yana Meerzon, David Dean

   Pages 1-17

3. The Lives of Others: Precarious Bodies and Self-Fashioning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Precarious Bodies in Performance Activism and Theatres of Migration

      • Yana Meerzon

      Pages 21-38

   3. Spectacular Bodies, Unsettling Objects: Material Performance as Intervention in Stereotypes of Refugees

      • Laura Purcell-Gates

      Pages 39-55

   4. Theatrical Border Crossings: Stereotypes against Realism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee

      • Kee-Yoon Nahm

      Pages 57-75

   5. The Suitcase as a Neurotic Container in the Israeli Theatre: The Return of the Wandering Jew

      • Sarit Cofman-Simhon

      Pages 77-99

   6. Keeping the Candle Aflame: Andrey Tarkovsky’s Search for Spirituality in a Foreign Land

      • J. Douglas Clayton

      Pages 101-117

4. Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Belonging: Deep Equality and Diasporic Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Read Her Lips: The Ban on Wearing the Niqab and Burqa at the Canadian Citizenship Ceremony 2011–2015

      • Zaheeda P. Alibhai

      Pages 121-140

   3. Tasting the Nation: Food, Identity, and Belonging in Canada

      • Helin Burkay, David Dean

      Pages 141-155

   4. Mobility and Cultural Citizenship: The Making of a Senegalese Diaspora in Multiethnic Brazil

      • Gana Ndiaye

      Pages 157-177

   5. Performance Patterns and Athletic Migration During the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games

      • Peter Kuling

      Pages 179-193

5. Dreams, Memories, and Storytelling: Applied Theatre and Communities of Praxis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Forced Migration, Memory, and Testimony

      • Nimo Bokore

      Pages 197-213

   3. Claiming Their Voice: Foreign Memories on the Post-Brexit Stage

      • Kasia Lech

      Pages 215-234

   4. Challenging Stereotypes: Moving Dreams and the Italian Community of Peterborough, UK

      • Ida Casilli

      Pages 235-256

   5. Breaking Stereotypes: Afrika! and In the Waiting Room of the Dreams: Two Theatrical Projects with Refugees in German Border Cities Close to France

      • Michalis Georgiou

      Pages 257-273

   6. Mapping Memory Routes: A Multisensory Digital Approach to Art, Migration, and Critical Heritage Studies

      • Alda Terracciano

      Pages 275-292

6. Back Matter

   Pages 293-298

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015.  Topics include the representations of migration and stereotypes in citizenship ceremonies and culinary traditions, law and literature, and public history and performance. Bringing together academics in the arts, humanities and social sciences, as well as artists and theatre practitioners, the collection equips readers with new methodologies, keywords and collaborative research tools to support critical inquiry and public-facing research in fields such as Theatre and Performance Studies,  Cultural and Migration Studies, and Applied Theatre and History.

• Conflict
• Terrorism
• Neoliberalism
• Migration
• Refugee
• Asylum
• Performance
• Film
• Theatre
• Activism
• Brexit
• Tarkovsky
• Difference
• Otherness

• Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  Yana Meerzon

• Department of History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  David Dean, Daniel McNeil

Yana Meerzon, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada, has published on theatre of exile and migration, and cultural and interdisciplinary studies. Her books include A Path of the Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics (2005) and Performing Exile – Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film (2012). 


David Dean is Professor of History at Carleton University, Canada, and co-director of the Carleton Centre for Public History working especially on performances of the past in contemporary society. Co-editor of the journal International Public History, his most recent book is A Companion to Public History (2018)


Daniel McNeil is the inaugural Public Humanities Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada, and an Associate Professor of History at Carleton University. A former holder of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Visiting Professorship of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaulUniversity, his books include Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic (2010).  

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