Cirrus@Austlit

'In Performing Noncitizenship: Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism, Emma Cox acknowledges the vast body of work that has already been carried out on asylum seekers and refugees in social and political science  and more recently in the humanities. She makes it clear that her aim in this book is not to create an "archive of work that has responded to asylum politics" (8). Instead, she provides "thick" descriptions of selected examples of theatre, film, and activism in Australia "to elucidate them as sites of representation […] and as sites of social practice that are generative of, and not just reflective of, the ways that identities manifest in the space between groups separated-in-proximity by demarcations of national community" (9).' (Introduction)