To browse Academia. Immigrants and refugees face many and consequent losses in their lives. Most display a remarkable degree of resilience in coping with the new difficult and often discriminatory circumstances. Some, however, are unable to deal effectively with the new reality and experience a fractured sense of self, even a loss of identity.
This article examines how working dramatherapeutically with a group of women from different countriesoffered them a safe place where feelings could be shared and a sense of belonging experienced, where the disconnected aspects of the self could be addressed and a context created for ritualistic practices to enable them to move on from the past. The paper concludes with some personal thoughts and questions arising from working with this vulnerable population.
Key words: immigrant,refugee,liminality, communitas, power-powerlessness, playing, limbo, embodied experience. This article critically discusses the experiences of women who are seeking asylum in the North East of England and women who are mothers with no recourse to public funds living in London to address the questions posed by the special issue.
To what extent are their lived experiences marked by precari Through the use of drama and theatre conventions, role-play strategies and techniques, they narrate, perform and empathise with the story of a refugee girl, they connect with and understand her experience, her needs, her realities, and her challenges. Keywords: refugee children; empathy; trauma; empowerment; human rights; Drama and Theatre in Education. This article focuses on theatre as an occupation for asylum seekers living in immigration centres.
The aim is to describe the engagement of asylum seekers in a theatre production that presented their experiences. The study had an ethnographic design and used participatory observations.
