Performing self-authored narratives of unaccompanied refugee young men: rethinking young male migrant identities through performance.

表演关于无人陪伴的年轻男性难民的自编故事：通过表演重新思考年轻男性移民的身份。

• 批准号: 2253185
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2253185
• 关键词: Performing; self; authored; narratives; unaccompanied

This practice research examines how personal narrative and self-authored performance can generate nuanced understandings of male unaccompanied minor experiences within host and peer communities, by developing new performance strategies for creating theatre with, for and by this community. Due to their extreme experiences of survival 'without papers', these adolescents are often positioned in migration studies outside a Western paradigm of childhood, and are frequently misunderstood by host communities. Yet the voices of refugees are often absented from research, performance and public discourse, enacting forms of erasure and silencing. This practice research project considers how performance practices might reposition and/or destabilise hegemonic knowledge about young male refugees in order to restore agency and trouble the discourses of suspicion, distrust and victimhood that have become associated with asylum seekers in general, and male unaccompanied minors specifically. The practice elements of the project are centred around the development of a new piece of performance work with the theatre company I co-founded in 2015, Phosphoros Theatre, that works with a core company of actors who came to the UK unaccompanied. At the centre of my methodology is a collaborative approach that incorporates making and holding space for refugee artists. Much of this performance research considers the tense relationship between personal narrative, identity construction and political agency, as asylum stories become the basis for gaining legal recognition of refugee status. Adopting self-representation as a mode of inquiry, this research addresses and contests the fascination and desire for authentic refugee studies, truth telling and aesthetics of suffering. It seeks to establish empowering new forms of theatre making that enable a significant rethinking of male unaccompanied minor identity, developing new ways for refugee actors to interact with and articulate their lived experience, in a reframing of who gets to speak about forced migration, adolescence and vulnerability, in what way and how.

本实践研究探讨如何个人叙事和自我创作的性能可以产生细致入微的理解男性无人陪伴的未成年人的经验，在主机和同龄人社区，通过开发新的性能策略，创造戏剧与，为和这个社区。由于他们极端的生存经验'没有文件'，这些青少年往往被定位在移民研究以外的西方范式的童年，并经常被误解的东道国社区。然而，难民的声音往往在研究、表演和公共话语中消失，从而形成了各种形式的抹杀和沉默。这个实践研究项目考虑如何表现的做法可能会重新定位和/或动摇霸权知识的年轻男性难民，以恢复机构和麻烦的话语的怀疑，不信任和受害者，已成为与寻求庇护者一般，和男性孤身未成年人具体。该项目的实践元素围绕着与我在2015年共同创立的戏剧公司Phosphoros Theatre合作开发一个新的表演作品，该公司与一个无人陪伴的演员核心公司合作。我的方法论的核心是一种合作的方法，包括为难民艺术家创造和保留空间。这种行为研究的大部分考虑了个人叙事，身份建构和政治机构之间的紧张关系，因为庇护故事成为获得难民身份法律的承认的基础。本研究以自我表征为探究模式，探讨并质疑对真实难民研究、真理讲述和苦难美学的迷恋和渴望。它寻求建立赋予权力的新的戏剧制作形式，使人们能够对男性孤身未成年人的身份进行重大的重新思考，为难民行为者开发新的方式，使他们能够与自己的生活经验互动并表达自己的生活经验，重新定义谁可以谈论被迫移徙、青春期和脆弱性，以什么方式和如何谈论。