The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration provides a wide survey of theatre and performance practices related to the experience of global movements, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Given the largest number of people ever (over one hundred million) suffering from forced displacement today, much of the book centres around the topic of refuge and exile and the role of theatre in addressing these issues. The book is structured in six sections, the first of which is dedicated to the major theoretical concepts related to the field of theatre and migration including exile, refuge, displacement, asylum seeking, colonialism, human rights, globalization, and nomadism. The subsequent sections are devoted to several dozen case studies across various geographies and time periods that highlight, describe and analyse different theatre practices related to migration. The volume serves as a prestigious reference work to help theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and educators navigate the complex field of theatre and migration.

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Yana Meerzon is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of three books, most recently Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Yana has also served as co-editor on 7 edited collections, including Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

S. E. Wilmer is Professor Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and has written or edited 20 books. He co-edited 'Theatre and Statelessness in Europe' for Critical Stages in 2016. His latest books are Performing Statelessness in Europe (2018) and Life in the Posthuman Condition (2023).