This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing
the conditions of refugees the stateless and the dispossessed. In the light of the European
Union failing to find a political solution to the current migration crisis it considers a
variety of artistic works that have challenged the deficiencies in governmental and
transnational practices as well as innovative efforts by migrants and their hosts to imagine
and build a new future. It discusses a diverse range of performative strategies moving from a
consideration of recent adaptations of Greek tragedy to performances employing fictive
identification documentary dramas immersive theatre over-identification and subversive
identification nomadism and political activism. This study will appeal to those interested in
questions of statelessness migration and the problematic role of the nation-state.
