Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture

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 abou

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Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture Edited by  Yana Meerzon David Dean Daniel McNeil

Contemporary Performance InterActions Series Editors Elaine Aston Lancaster University Lancaster, Lancashire, UK Brian Singleton Samuel Beckett Centre Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Theatre’s performative InterActions with the politics of sex, race and class, with questions of social and political justice, form the focus of the Contemporary Performance InterActions series. Performative InterActions are those that aspire to affect, contest or transform. International in scope, CPI publishes monographs and edited collections dedicated to the InterActions of contemporary practitioners, performances and theatres located in any world context. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14918

Yana Meerzon  •  David Dean Daniel McNeil Editors

Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture

Editors Yana Meerzon Department of Theatre University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON, Canada

David Dean Department of History Carleton University Ottawa, ON, Canada

Daniel McNeil Department of History Carleton University Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Acknowledgements

This book was first conceived at the Migration/Representation/ Stereotypes conference that convened at the University of Ottawa in April 2017. This bilingual and international conference was organi