Migration in Performance: Crossing the Colonial Present

by Pratt Geraldine and Caleb Johnston

This book follows the travels of Nanay, a testimonial theatre play developed from research with migrant domestic workers in Canada, as it was recreated and restaged in different places around the globe. This work examines how Canadian migration policy is embedded across and within histories of colonialism in the Philippines and settler colonialism in Canada. Translations between scholarship and performance - and between Canada and the Philippines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138885630
• ISBN13: 9781138885639
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"