These links are not explicitly about the refugee and border issues in Europe, but they address how South Asian dance aesthetics might deal with issues of migration, displacement, and borders.
VIDEOS:
Pallabi Chakravorty, "Asunder," on Partition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4_JSIzWAs (start around 30 min and watch until the end)
Raka Maitra, "From Another Land," about Bengali migrant laborers in Singapore:
http://www.chowk.sg/from-another-land (3 min excerpt)
READING:
This is a conference paper I gave last year at the the WDA-AP conference in Singapore, entitled "Homeland as Beloved: Translating Viraha for (Post)colonial Contexts." If you like, you can just read the portion on "Asunder."
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7gHlaj9pphSY1FhaFF6TloxX28/view?usp=sharing
IMAGE:
And as a bonus, here is the "Refugee" tarot card from the Asian American Literature Review's new project, "Asian American Tarot: A Mental Health Project." If you like it, consider donating so the project can get off the ground:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1750978990/asian-american-tarot-a-mental-health-project. (The rewards include artwork and poetry by As Am artistic luminaries!)
