Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland Towards a New Inte

This book investigates Ireland’s translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this ‘new interculturalism’ for theatre and performance studies at large.Offering the first full-length, post-

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Charlotte McIvor Contemporary Performance InterActions

Contemporary Performance InterActions

Series Editors Elaine Aston Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Lancaster University Lancaster, United Kingdom Brian Singleton School of Drama, Film and Music Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Aims of the Series 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.springer.com/series/14918

Charlotte McIvor

Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland Towards a New Interculturalism

Charlotte McIvor Drama and Theatre Studies National University of Ireland, Galway Galway, Ireland

Contemporary Performance InterActions ISBN 978-1-137-46972-4 ISBN 978-1-137-46973-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-46973-1

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To Ramin Haghjoo, whose own migration and unwavering support made this book possible

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book has taken shape across almost a decade between and across multiple institutions including the University of