Migration in Performance
Crossing the Colonial Present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12967459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessie Stein (The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 14 |
| Pages | 241-245 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788 |
| Publisher | Brock University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26522/ssj.v2020i14.2284 |
| OpenAlex | W3013572664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Crossing the Colonial Present is a captivating book that travels alongside "Nanay," a site-responsive theatre production staging archived testimonies of Filipino women involved in Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). Through Nanay, Johnston, Pratt, and their collaborators seek to challenge the presumed generosity of the LCP program -a program that offers participants the opportunity to apply for permanent residency after 24 months of serviceby shedding light on how, in practice, the conditions of the program leave participants vulnerable to exploitation and marginalization. By bringing testimonies accumulated through a research collaboration with the Philippine Women Center (PWC) of British Colombia (BC) to the stage, Nanay aims to unsettle an intercultural audience into uncomfortable conversations about Canada's dependency on racialized labour migration to fulfill its social reproduction, the uneven geography of circumstances that propel this movement of peoples, and the generational consequences it has for migrant workers and their families
Colonialism · Political science · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |