다문화 시대의 이주민 연극 -프랑스 사례를 중심으로 = Immigrant Theatres in Multi-Cultural Age -Focusing on the cases in France

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Immigrant workers in France had been under serious threat of losing their jobs due to the economic crisis in 1970’s. They had to fight for themselves to protect their own basic rights. In this regard, the immigrants wanted to let the world know more about their situation through immigrant theatres. In fact, there were hundreds of different immigrant theatre troupes, showing how active immigrant theatres were back then. Most of them took place on streets or near strike/protest scenes just like those of Al Asifa. As such, immigrant theatres showed a disposition towards the engagement movement in post-war France, in that they highlighted the social issues at hand. With the introduction of the new immigrant policy of the French government in 1980’s, immigrant theatres faced a period of transition mainly led by young, second-generation immigrants. Unlike their predecessors, they concentrated on bringing harmony between their world and the existing social order. To this end, the second-generation immigrants deal with topics like identity crisis, religious conflict, and alien culture they experience as both French and foreigner at the same time. In this stage, immigrant theatres put much bigger emphasis on their social functions than their political or aesthetic aspects so as to help immigrants better adjust themselves into local community. New immigrant theatres had some important implications to the French society. First, they raised public awareness on the difficulties immigrant workers were going through. Second, they convinced the community that their struggle is not confined to their own sakes alone, but extends to well being of all immigrants in the community as a whole. And third, they sent a strong message that they are also a part of the French society, raising their voice on the injustice in discrimination and prejudice against foreigners.