Strangers at Our Door: Syrian refugees’ crisis in Miunikh–Damaskus: Stories of One City (2018)

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Deraya University & English Department, Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages), Minia University, Egypt

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The global refugee crisis stimulates important debates about the lived experiences of refugees and asylum seekers. Jessica Glause’s Miunikh–Damaskus: Stories of One City (2018) exposes the experiences of some Syrian refugees and asylum seekers before and after their arrival in Germany in the wake of the Syrian Civil War (2011-2024). Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity (2000) and Strangers at Our Door (2016) offer a critical investigation into the journeys of such refugees, underpinning their anguishes and assimilation. This paper attempts to find answers to the following questions: What is the role of theatre in countering securitization, stigmatization, and exclusionary policies toward refugees? How does the German theatre respond to the challenges of the Syrian exodus to Germany? Why are Bauman’s terms such as “Precariat,” “Vagabond,” “Official Fear,” and “Stigmatization,” used as a lens to understand the situation of the Syrian refugees? Moreover, the paper investigates the theatrical technique of Verbatim Theatre used by Glause.

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