Something to Declare: Immigrants' Stand Up Comedy in the UK

需要声明的事情：移民在英国的单口喜剧

• 批准号: 2695854
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2695854
• 关键词: Something; Declare; Immigrants; Stand; Up

I am a first-generation immigrant who is also a working stand-up comedian and academic.As such, my primary research question is: how do first generation immigrant stand-ups in the UK use comedic performance to position themselves within contemporary discourses about migration? How do immigrant stand-ups strike a balance between ingratiation and confrontation, and how might this impact broader debates about migration in the UK? This research will result in significant insights into the political potential of racially and ethnically marginalised comics in contemporary British society. It will build on existing scholarship by explicating the specific performance tactics employed by immigrant stand-ups to navigate the political opportunities and pitfalls that stand-up comedy provides.The UK is home to 9.5 million migrants (Migration Observatory 2020). Although 14% of the UK population was born abroad, migration remains at the forefront of British political debate. At the very moment when Brexit is coming into effect, anti-immigrant sentiment has also intensified due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Gamlen 2020). This project will document and analyse the complex role of immigrant stand-up comedians within this context, considering the aims and intentions of the performers, as well as the their dialogue with audiences. Following the success of secondgeneration immigrant comedians like Omid Djalili and Romesh Ranganathan, migrant comedians in the UK have gained visibility in the last two decades. This trend matches the greater inclusion of minorities, women and LGBTQ+ performers within the comedy scene. But where do these immigrant comedians place themselves in relation to the UK's hegemonic migration discourse when the tension concerning their very right to be in the country is on the rise?

我是第一代移民谁也是一个工作的单口相声演员和学者.因此，我的主要研究问题是：如何做第一代移民在英国单口相声使用喜剧表演定位自己在当代话语中关于移民？移民脱口秀如何在讨好和对抗之间取得平衡，以及这将如何影响英国关于移民的更广泛辩论？这项研究将导致在当代英国社会的种族和民族边缘化的漫画的政治潜力显着的见解。它将建立在现有的奖学金，通过阐述移民单口相声所采用的具体表演策略，以驾驭单口相声所提供的政治机会和陷阱。英国是950万移民的家园（移民观察站2020）。尽管英国14%的人口出生在国外，但移民问题仍然是英国政治辩论的焦点。在英国脱欧即将生效之际，反移民情绪也因COVID-19大流行而加剧（Gamlen 2020）。该项目将记录和分析移民单口相声演员在这一背景下的复杂作用，考虑表演者的目的和意图，以及他们与观众的对话。继Omid Djalili和Romesh Ranganathan等第二代移民喜剧演员的成功之后，英国的移民喜剧演员在过去二十年中获得了知名度。这一趋势与喜剧场景中更多的少数民族，女性和LGBTQ+表演者相匹配。但是，当有关他们在英国的权利的紧张局势正在上升时，这些移民喜剧演员将自己置于英国霸权主义的移民话语中的什么位置？