Recipient of an Honourable Mention for the Canadian Association of Theatre Research’s 2022 Patrick O’Neill Award. The Patrick O’Neill Award committee was inspired and impressed by the collection, and shared the following citation with members of the Canadian Association of Theatre Research:  

"Writing from the spaces of embodied memories, affective theorizing, and diasporic

experiences, Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture closes the gap in sociopolitical,

cultural and transnational debate around issues of precarity, representation, and

ethics of appropriation of migrants bodies and stories in theatre and performance. Taking deep

and serious inquiry on the (mis)representation of migrants in various sites of performance,

ceremonies, and performative spectacles, the authors of this anthology intrepidly explore an

analysis on postnationalism and transnationalism by foregrounding the agency of theim(migrants).

By drawing on theatre, performance, and interdisciplinary studies, this anthology

contributes in expanding the analysis of the processes that bodies and objects go through

located in between the transit of time and space.

The authors from different disciplines cultivate a discourse on postnationalism by entwining a fresh way of examining the precarity of the (im)migrants' bodies. These authors hold the memory of a diasporic discourse built from an intricate and excellent interweaving of theory and practice emerging from a migrant-centered

lifeworld. When theatre becomes malignantly stereotypical, this book challenges our inherited

consciousness about representation of the underrepresented and marginalized bodies in

theatre and performance through a re-reading of the diasporic experiences and the agonies of

those who have histories of war and displacement by re-centering their imaginaries and

narratives.

The language is brilliant and the dialectic is outstanding; this book is extensive,

provocative, and written from a global perspective. The authors of this anthology are masters

of their own craft. For those artists and scholars who carry in them a long history of diasporic

blood and deep sense of longing of their original homeland, this anthology is a home."