Theatre and Performance

Here are lists of terms and concepts in the field of theatre, performance and exile.

Accent – a distinctive manner of expression, in this context a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accent)
Acculturation – A series of changes in cultural mores (ideas, words, values, norms, behavior, institutions) resulting from direct and continuous contact and interaction between groups of different cultures, particularly through migratory movements or economic exchange, the media and other channels. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/acculturation_en)
Activism – a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/activism)
Alien – In the global context, a person who is not a national (native or citizen) of a given State; In the EU context, a person who is not a national of an EU Member State. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/alien_en)
Alienation – a condition in which individuals feel estranged, disconnected, or separated from themselves, others, and the broader society. (Source:https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/53586)
Assimilation/Cultural assimilation – The gradual process by which a minority group adopts the patterns of behavior of a majority group or host society and is eventually absorbed by the majority group / host society.* A controversial term associated with the melting pot theory of multiculturalism which assumes that various immigrant groups will tend to “melt together,” abandoning their individual cultures and eventually becoming fully assimilated into the predominant society.** (Sources:*https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/assimilation_en#:~:text=The%20gradual%20process%20by%20which,the%20majority%20group%20%2F%20host%20society and **https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/melting-pot/#:~:text=The%20melting%20pot%20theory%20of,assimilated%20into%20the%20predominant%20society.)
Awareness – the quality or state of being aware; knowledge and understanding that something is happening or exists. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/awareness)

Banishment – to require by authority to leave a country; to drive out or remove from a home or place of usual resort or continuance. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banishment)
Belonging – a need for human beings to affiliate themselves with another group of people and have their acceptance. It is a feeling of support when a person observes inclusion and identity as a particular group member. (Source:https://study.com/academy/lesson/sense-of-belonging-definition-theory-quiz.html)

Censorship – the action of preventing part or the whole of a book, film, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for political reasons; a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art, documents, or other kinds of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because they include or support certain ideas: (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/censorship)
Conflict – an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles; fighting between two or more groups of people or countries. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/conflict)
Cosmopolitanism – The philosophical idea that human beings have equal moral and political obligations to each other based solely on their humanity, without reference to state citizenship, national identity, religious affiliation, ethnicity, or place of birth. (Source:https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095641459)
Cross-cultural competence – the ability to understand people from different cultures and engage with them effectively. Having cross-cultural competence means you can be effective in your interactions with people from most any culture. (Source:https://www.globalcognition.org/cross-cultural-competence/)
Cultural diversity – the term often refers to the co-existence of a difference in behavior, traditions and customs as a result of when cross-border population flows, such as migration, lead to increased diversity within societies. UNESCO’s governing body, the General Conference, adopted the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity in 2001. The Declaration elevates cultural diversity to the rank of common heritage of humanity and provides a more detailed definition. (Source:https://wayback.archive-it.org/10611/20170511054948/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/glossary/cultural-diversity/)
Cultural exchange – sharing different ideas, traditions, and knowledge with someone who may be coming from a completely different background than your own. (Source:https://greenheart.org/blog/greenheart-international/what-is-cultural-exchange/#:~:text=Cultural%20exchange%20is%20sharing%20different,different%20background%20than%20your%20own.)
Cultural mediator – In the migration context, a professional who facilitates the communication (including interpretation) between people speaking different languages and with different cultural backgrounds. (https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/cultural-mediator_en)
Cultural pluralism – A policy aimed at the ensuring of harmonious interaction among people and groups with plural, varied and dynamic cultural identities as well as their willingness to live together. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/cultural-pluralism_en)
Culture – The set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society or a social group encompassing, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/culture_en)
Culture shock – a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an alien culture or environment without adequate preparation. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture%20shock)

Decolonization – freedom from the dominating influence of a colonizing power; to identify, challenge, and revise or replace assumptions, ideas, values, and practices that reflect a colonizer’s dominating influence and especially a Eurocentric dominating influence. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decolonize)
Develop – to create or produce especially by deliberate effort over time; to make available or usable; to cause to evolve or unfold gradually : to lead or conduct (something) through a succession of states or changes each of which is preparatory for the next; to expand by a process of growth. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/develop)
Diaspora – Individuals and members of networks, associations and communities, who have left their country of origin, but maintain links with their homelands. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/diaspora_en)
Diversity – the condition of having or being composed of differing elements (variety), especially the inclusion of people of different races, cultures, etc. in a group or organization. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diversity)
Dramaturgy of migration/Migratory dramaturgy – a means of reclaiming narratives of migrants and emulating the resilience of these communities through performance. Migratory dramaturgy interprets adaptation as a performer’s extraordinary awareness and responsiveness to the performance environment. (Source:https://howlround.com/moving-towards-migratory-dramaturgy#:~:text=Migratory%20dramaturgy%20stands%20as%20a,responsiveness%20to%20the%20performance%20environment.)

Erasure – the act of removing or destroying something, especially something that shows that that person or thing ever existed or happened. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/erasure)
Ethnic theatre – this type of theatre gained popularity post-WWII with the massive influx of immigrants and refugees (including theatre professionals), yet, theatre representing the country’s broad cultural base had existed in Canada since before the turn of the century.* The ethnic theater provided inexpensive entertainment, helped maintain ethnic culture, and helped show the broader society that a particular group deserved respect.** (Sources: *https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Ethnic%20Theatre and **http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1248.html)
Exclusion – The term exclusion became popular to use in the late 1980s to describe the results of the radical economic, industrial and social changes that were taking place. These changes included long-term or repeated unemployment, family instability, social isolation and the decline of neighborhood and social networks. (Source:https://wayback.archive-it.org/10611/20170511055000/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/glossary/exclusion/)
Exile – The condition of someone being sent or kept away from their own country, village, etc., especially for political reasons. A person who is sent or kept away from their own country, etc. or the act of sending someone away from their own country, village, etc., especially for political reasons. (Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/exile)
Exilic literature – a body of work created by writers who have been forced to leave their homeland, often due to political, religious, or social oppression. This genre frequently explores themes of displacement, identity, belonging, and the longing for home, capturing the emotional and psychological impact of exile on individuals and communities. The struggles faced by these writers often reflect broader societal issues, making their work significant in discussions of diaspora and cultural identity. (Source:https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/religion-literature/exile-literature)
Exilic theatre – Exilic theatre privileges the position of the outsider, acting as the expression of borderlessness, flexibility, and free movement between separate cultural, ethnic and communal entities. (Source: Meerzon, Yana. (2011). Theatre in Exile: Defining the Field as Performing Odyssey. The IATC webjournal/Revue web de l’AICT, (5), https://www.critical-stages.org/5/theatre-in-exile-defining-the-field-as-performing-odyssey/)
Exodus – Movements in groups (isolated and sporadic) out of a country of origin in large numbers or of a section of the community at a given time. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/exodus_en)

Flaneur – The flâneur is an urban type who first emerges in early nineteenth-century Paris, understood as a wanderer in and voyeur of the modern city. (Source: Moore, B. (2020). The Flâneur. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_23-1)
Flee – to run away often from danger or evil; to hurry toward a place of security. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flee)
Foreigner – A person who comes from another country. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/foreigner)

Gender – The socially constructed attributes, roles, activities, responsibilities and needs predominantly connected to being male or female in given societies or communities at a given time. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/gender_en)
Gender identity – Each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body (which may involve, if freely chosen, modifications of bodily appearance or function by medical, surgical or other means) and other expressions of gender, including dress, speech and mannerism. People fleeing human rights violations and persecution due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity may qualify for international protection. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/gender-identity_en)
Ghetto – An area of a city, especially a very poor area, where people of a particular race or religion live closely together and apart from other people. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ghetto)
Globalization – a situation in which available goods and services, or social and cultural influences, gradually become similar in all parts of the world. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/globalization)
Guest – a person to whom hospitality is extended. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guest)

Heteroglossia – a diversity of voices, styles of discourse, or points of view in a literary work and especially a novel. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heteroglossia)
Holocaust literature – a class of literature defined by its subject – the destruction of European Jewry by Germany, chiefly in the years between 1942 and 1945 – and not by its form.* Holocaust literature embraces a range of genres, subject positions, and literary traditions. It mediates life and death, survival and memory, during and after the war, through indirection, fragmentary narratives, and other literary strategies.** (Sources: *Levin, G. (1982), HOLOCAUST LITERATURE AS A GENRE: A DESCRIPTION AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Journal of Social Philosophy, 13: p. 52, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.1982.tb00552.x and **Abstract of Horowitz, Sara R., ‘ Literature’, in Peter Hayes, and John K. Roth (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211869.003.0029)
Holocaust survivor – any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps, ghettos, and prisons, this definition includes, among others, people who were refugees or were in hiding. (Source:https://www.ushmm.org/remember/resources-holocaust-survivors-victims/individual-research/registry-faq#11-how-is-a-holocaust-survivor-defined)
Holocaust survivor testimony – Holocaust survivors bear witness to their experience by telling the world what they saw and underwent. They testify to their experience in various ways, including in the form of oral history interviews, transcribed interviews, memoirs, diaries, and letters. (Source:https://www.holocaust.org.uk/testimony)
Holocaust theatre – A theatre of memory with Auschwitz at the center. Holocaust theatre instead of showing a past, confirms the present in its topics, and asks uncomfortable questions. Holocaust theatre builds an experience of loss, battles authoritarianism and submissiveness, unmasks propaganda and half-truths. (Source: Mayorga, J., The Theatrical Representation of the Holocaust, https://htc.miami.edu/the-theatrical-representation-of-the-holocaust/)
Holocaust: The killing of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis before and during the Second World War (Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/holocaust)
Home – one’s place of residence, house; the social unit formed by a family living together; a familiar or usual setting; a place of origin. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home)
Homeland: The country where you were born. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/homeland)
Homelessness – having no home or permanent place of residence. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homelessness)
Hospitality – the act of being friendly and welcoming to guests and visitors. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hospitality)
Hybrid – Noun: a person whose background is a blend of two diverse cultures or traditions; something heterogeneous in origin or composition. Adjective: having or produced by a combination of two or more distinct elements : marked by heterogeneity in origin, composition, or appearance. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hybrid)
Hybrid identity – identity construction of people with more cultural reference systems, such as migrants. Typical elements of hybrid identity include: multiple cultural backgrounds, experience exchange between self and external assignment, the ongoing process of own identities negotiation, and the central feature is the belongingness, which may take various forms. (Source: Wagner, C. (2016). ‘Migration and the Creation of Hybrid Identity: Chances and Challenges’. Proceedings of Harvard Square Symposium, The Phenomenon of Migration, pp. 242-243, https://rais.education/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/16.pdf)
Hybridity – Hybridity is a term commonly used in postcolonial theory that describes how new cultures are formed in the contact zone of colonization. The concept of hybridity is associated with theorist Homi K. Bhabha, who explores how the formation and reformation of new cultures, as a result of colonial relations, disrupts any notion of a “pure” culture. This hybridization process occurs in what Bhabha refers to as the “Third Space,” an interstitial site where new cultural identities are continually shaped. (Source: Raine, S. (2024). What is Hybridity in Postcolonial Theory?, https://www.perlego.com/knowledge/study-guides/what-is-hybridity-in-postcolonial-theory/_)

Immigrant theatre – based on the principles of amalgamation and continuity, a type of theatre that adapts to the new social, economic, and cultural structures of its projected audiences. Immigrants tend to assume a new artistic identity, while remaining true to the artistic aspirations they brought from home. Their theatre is not binary; it presents cultural and cognitive synaesthesia and originates as a fusion of the artists’ inherited cultural traditions and those of a new world, so it repeatedly stages the tension between continuity and difference. (Source: Meerzon, Y. (2015). Theatre and Immigration: From the Multiculturalism Act to the Sites of Imagined Communities. Theatre Research in Canada Recherches théâtrales Au Canada, 36(2), https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/24302)
Immigrant theatre artist in Canada – a newcomer to Canada who holds a post-secondary diploma in theatre, has work experience in the trade, and aims to earn a living in Canada or Quebec by working in theatre in English and/or in French. (Source: Meerzon, Y. (2015). Theatre and Immigration: From the Multiculturalism Act to the Sites of Imagined Communities. Theatre Research in Canada Recherches théâtrales Au Canada, 36(2), https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/24302)
Imposter – A person claiming the identity of another person, for instance by using the other person’s authentic identity documents or by altering their physical appearance. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/impostor_en)
Influx – the fact of a large number of people or things arriving at the same time. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/influx)
Integration – The two-way process of mutual adaptation between migrants and the societies in which they live, whereby migrants are incorporated into the social, economic, cultural and political life of the receiving community. It entails a set of joint responsibilities for migrants and communities, and incorporates other related notions such as social inclusion and social cohesion.* Associated with the salad bowl theory of multiculturalism which asserts that it is not necessary for people to give up their cultural heritage in order to be considered members of the dominant society.** (Sources: *https://www.iom.int/key-migration-terms and **https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/salad-bowl/)
Intercultural dialogue – An open and respectful exchange of views between individuals and groups with different ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds and heritage on the basis of mutual understanding and respect. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/intercultural-dialogue_en)
Intercultural theatre/Cross-cultural theatre – a form of performance that combines elements from different cultural traditions, creating a dialogue between diverse theatrical practices and expressions. This approach fosters cross-cultural understanding and collaboration, allowing artists to share their unique narratives while also engaging with global themes. By blending traditional elements with contemporary adaptations, intercultural theatre often challenges the audience’s perceptions of cultural identity and artistic boundaries. (Source:https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/introduction-theatre-arts/intercultural-theatre)
Interculturalism – Relating to or involving more than one culture. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/intercultural)
Interpreter – In the migration context, a professional who is expected to convert oral communication from a source language (language/s of the country of origin of a migrant) to a target language (language of the host country) and vice versa to ensure appropriate communication between migrants and staff of public authorities in particular who do not speak the same language. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/interpreter_en)
Itinerant – traveling from place to place; staying in a place for only a short amount of time (for example, an itinerant preacher/lecturer/performer). (Source:https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/itinerant)

Journey – an act or instance of traveling from one place to another. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journey)

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Legislative theatre – a form of performance that combines elements of theater with the legislative process to engage citizens and policymakers in discussions about social issues. It encourages participation, dialogue, and action by presenting real-life problems and potential solutions through dramatization, often leading to the creation or amendment of laws based on the insights gathered during performances. (Source:https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/theater-for-social-change/legislative-theatre)
LGBTQIA+ – acronym for persons identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual or other.
Liminal – of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition; in-between, transitional. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liminal)

Metropolitan – of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.; of or relating to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities; pertaining to or constituting a mother country; pertaining to an ecclesiastical metropolis. (Source:https://www.dictionary.com/browse/metropolitan)
Migrant subjectivity – a conscious constitution of oneself and certain others as ‘migrants’ which is formed and maintained through processes of ‘migrantisation’. (Sources: Toukolehto, S. (2023). Moral Contours of Migrant Subjectivity: Indebtedness and ‘Giving Back’ Among Newcomers in Germany. Etnofoor, 35(1), 83–99, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27233678 and Kurki, T. (2019). Immigrant-ness as (Mis)Fortune? Immigrantisation Through Integration Policies and Practices in Education (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Helsinki, University of Helsinki, 63-64, https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/294719 and Dahinden, J. (2016). A Plea for the ‘De-Migranticization’ of Research on Migration and Integration. Ethnic and Racial Studies 39(13): 2207-2225.)
Migrantisation – various social mechanisms through which very different groups and individuals become subsumed under the general racialised category of ‘migrants’ that carries with it a rather rigid sense of non-belonging. (Sources: Toukolehto, S. (2023). Moral Contours of Migrant Subjectivity: Indebtedness and ‘Giving Back’ Among Newcomers in Germany. Etnofoor, 35(1), 83–99, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27233678 and Keskinen, S. (2022). Mobilising the Racialised ‘Others’: Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics. London: Routledge, 1-3)
Migratory aesthetics – expresses key dynamics in contemporary postcolonial culture and offers an alternative to identity politics. (Source: Abstract of Bennett, J. (2011). “Migratory Aesthetics: Art and Politics beyond Identity”. In Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042032644_008)
Mother tongue – one’s native language; a language from which another language derives. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother%20tongue)
Motherland – a country regarded as a place of origin (as of an idea or a movement). (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motherland)
Movement – the act or process of moving; a series of organized activities working toward an objective; an organized effort to promote or attain an end. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/movement)
Multiculturalism – A policy that endorses the principle of cultural diversity and supports the right of different cultural and ethnic groups to retain distinctive cultural identities ensuring their equitable access to society, encompassing constitutional principles and commonly shared values prevailing in the society. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/multiculturalism_en)
Multilingualism – using or able to use several languages especially with equal fluency. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multilingualism)

Nation-state – a form of political organization under which a relatively homogeneous people inhabits a sovereign state, especially a state containing one as opposed to several nationalities. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nation-state)
Nationalism – a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nationalism)
Neo-nationalism – is a type of nationalism that rose in the mid-2010s in Europe and North America and to some degree in other regions. It is associated with several positions, such as right-wing populism, anti-globalization, nativism, protectionism, opposition to immigration, Islamophobia, Sinophobia, and Euroscepticism where applicable. (Source:https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/neo-nationalism/)
Nomad, (nomadism) – a member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nomad)
Nostalgia – a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nostalgia)

Oral history – Oral history is an account of the past transmitted by word of mouth (personal experiences, recollections, and reflections*). It has made important contributions to the ways in which we understand and interpret the past. Today, oral history has become an important field of study. Oral histories are also central to Indigenous cultures, both historical and contemporary.** (Sources: *https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oral%20history and **https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oral-history)
Other/otherness – one considered by members of a dominant group as alien, exotic, threatening, or inferior (as because of different racial, sexual, or cultural characteristics). (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other)

Performance – the execution of an action; something accomplished, deed, feat; the fulfillment of a claim, promise, or request: implementation; the action of representing a character in a play; a public presentation or exhibition; the ability to perform; the manner of reacting to stimuli. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/performance)
Performing arts – types of art (such as music, dance, or drama) that are performed for an audience. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/performing%20arts)
Postdigital performance – A postdigital performance thinks digitally in order to resist, or at. least understand, the systems of electronic and computational control. (Source: Causey, M. (2016). Postdigital Performance. Theatre Journal 68(3), 427-441, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309393008_Postdigital_Performance)
Postdramatic theatre – refers to a significant shift in the aesthetic and philosophical approach to theatre-making that began to emerge in the late 20th century. This shift marked a move away from the traditional, text-based drama that prioritised coherent narratives and character development, venturing instead towards a theatrical experience that emphasises visual, auditory, and performative elements over narrative structure. Postdramatic theatre responds to and reflects upon the complexities of the contemporary world, offering a space for exploration, questioning, and dialogue. (Source:https://thedramateacher.com/postdramatic-theatre/)
Postmigrant theatre – the stories and perspectives of those who, themselves, have not migrated but who have this migration background as part of their personal knowledge and collective memory. (Source:https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/md.s0915?role=tab&journalCode=md)
Postwar – occurring or existing after a war. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postwar)
Propagation – the spreading of something (such as a belief) abroad or into new regions. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propagation)
Public awareness campaign – An organized, systematic effort through various communications media to alert the general population of a given area to anything of significant interest or concern. (Source:https://www.eea.europa.eu/help/glossary/gemet-environmental-thesaurus/public-awareness-campaign#:~:text=An%20organized%2C%20systematic%20effort%20through,Source%3A%20RHW)

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Reintegration – Re-inclusion or re-incorporation of a person into a group or a process, e.g. of a migrant into the society of their country of return. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/reintegration_en)
Resettlement – transitive: to settle (someone or something) again or anew, (especially : to move (people) to a new place to live); intransitive: to become settled again or anew (as after disturbance or upheaval). (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resettlement)
Return – The movement of a person going from a host country back to a country of origin, country of nationality or usual residence usually after spending a significant period of time in the host country whether voluntary or forced, assisted or spontaneous. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/return_en)
Returnee – A person going from a host country back to a country of origin, country of nationality or habitual residence usually after spending a significant period of time in the host country whether voluntary or forced, assisted or spontaneous. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/returnee_en)

Settler – someone who settles in a new region or colony. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/settler)
Settler colonialism – a system of oppression based on genocide and colonialism, that aims to displace a population of a nation (oftentimes indigenous people) and replace it with a new settler population. Settler colonialism finds its foundations on a system of power perpetuated by settlers that represses indigenous people’s rights and cultures by erasing it and replacing it by their own. Based on the theft and exploitation of lands and resources that belong to the indigenous. History and current conflicts have shown that this ongoing system of oppression is mainly based on racism and white supremacy. (Source:https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/settler_colonialism)
Sex – The biological characteristics of a person, predominantly female or male. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/sex_en)
Sexual orientation – Each person’s profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to, and intimate and/or sexual relations with, individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/sexual-orientation_en)
Site-specific theatre – theatrical production of plays, performances or happenings, designed to be performed at a specially adapted location, without intention for theatrical purposes as a converted building, shops, cafes, hotels, or in buildings renovated for new functions. Usually it means it must be played in an unconventional theatre space, outside a traditional theatre space. Site-specific theatre is more interactive than conventional theatre, because there is not a fourth wall, space is open, actors can make close connections with the public, and the audience is part of the performance. (Source:https://worldoftheatreandart.com/site-specific-theatre-breaking-conventions/)
Slave narrative – an account of the life, or a major portion of the life, of a fugitive or former slave, either written or orally related by the slave personally. (Source:https://www.britannica.com/art/slave-narrative)
Slavery – the practice or institution of holding people as chattel involuntarily and under threat of violence; the state of a person who is forced usually under threat of violence to labor for the profit of another; a situation or practice in which people are entrapped (as by debt) and exploited. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slavery)
Social cohesion – Capacity of a society or community based on a common vision and a sense of belonging where peoples’ diverse backgrounds (including migratory) and circumstances are mutually appreciated and positively valued. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/social-cohesion_en)
Social exclusion – a state in which individuals are unable to participate fully in economic, social, political and cultural life, as well as the process leading to and sustaining such a state. (Source:https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/2016/chapter1.pdf)
Spectator – a person who watches an activity, especially a public event, without taking part. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/spectator)
Stereotypes – a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stereotypes)
Storytelling – the activity of writing, telling, or reading stories. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/storytelling)
Stranger – one who is strange: such as (1) foreigner, (2) resident alien. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stranger)
Suffering – physical or mental pain that a person or animal is feeling. (Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/suffering)

Testimonial theatre – a genre wrought from people bearing witness to their own stories through remembrance and words. Material culled from memory is crafted into a compelling yet true narrative, which is then brought to life through text, performance and the visual devices of theatre. (Source: Stuart Fisher, Amanda, ‘Theatre of witnessing: towards the decolonisation of testimonial theatre’, Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies, https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526145758.00010 / https://academic.oup.com/manchester-scholarship-online/book/37505/chapter-abstract/331708245?redirectedFrom=fulltext)
Tourism – the practice of traveling for recreation. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourism)
Trans-national communities – groups whose identity is not primarily based on attachment to a specific territory. (Source:https://wayback.archive-it.org/10611/20170511055101/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/glossary/trans-nationalism/)
Transnational migrant – those who have moved to another country yet still have ties back to their home countries. Transnational migrants influence the culture they come to and also bring new cultural characteristics back to their home country upon returning. (Source:https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/human-geography/population-geography/transnational-migration/#:~:text=Factors%20of%20Migration!-,Transnational%20Migration%20%2D%20Key%20takeaways,their%20home%20country%20upon%20returning)
Transnationalism – refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people and institutions across the borders of nation-states. (Source:https://wayback.archive-it.org/10611/20170511055101/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/glossary/trans-nationalism/)
Transnationality – refers to the state of simultaneous embeddedness in multiple locales and the apparent fluidity of movement between them, often experienced by transmigrants in the era of globalization. (Source:https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/transnationality )
Trauma – a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trauma)
Travel – a journey especially to a distant or unfamiliar place: tour, trip. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/travel)
Traveling theatre – travelling theatres had their own portable premises, scenery and props conveyed in wagons with actors travelling and living in caravans. They established themselves on vacant land but needed a licence to perform in front of paying customers. (Source:https://www.tickhillhistorysociety.org.uk/travelling-theatre)

Uprooting/uprootedness – to displace from a country or traditional habitat. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uprootedness)

Victim – one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent: such as a (1): one that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions, (2) one that is subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment; one that is tricked or duped. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/victim)
Victimisation – Adverse treatment or adverse consequence as a reaction to a complaint or to proceedings aimed at enforcing compliance with the principle of equal treatment. (Source:https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/victimisation_en)
Voice – wish, choice, or opinion openly or formally expressed; right of expression, also: influential power. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voice)

War zone – a zone in which belligerents are waging war, broadly: an area marked by extreme violence. (Source:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war%20zone)

Xenophobia – At the international level, no universally accepted definition of xenophobia exists, though it can be described as “attitudes, prejudices and behaviour that reject, exclude and often vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity”. (Source: Declaration on Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance against Migrants and Trafficked Persons (adopted by the Asia-Pacific NGO Meeting for the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Teheran, 18 February 2001), www.hurights.or.jp/wcar/E/tehran/migration.htm / https://www.iom.int/key-migration-terms)

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