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This chapter is an attempt to show the complex situation of actors working within the partitioned Polish territories in the second half of the nineteenth century. The author is not interested in the movement of theatre people across the partitions as such, but in what was associated with and sometimes even preceded and conditioned this movement: the complicated legal and civic status of the actors, and the fluid, multi-layered self-identification of these artists as potential emigrants. Various examples are presented to illustrate aspects of this phenomenon, including the incompatibility of passport designations, the legal difficulties of impoverished actors in changing their place of residence, the language skills of people living in the Polish diaspora, and the everyday experience of border controls between Austria and Russia. A new concept of submigration (psychological migration, a strategy of operating between a number of languages, forms of belonging, and cultures) is added to existing categories such as transnational migration and internal migration.

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‘True-Born Emigrants’: The Predicament of Actors on Nineteenth-Century Polish Stage in the Context of Migration

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  • Dorota Jarząbek-Wasyl

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This chapter is an attempt to show the complex situation of actors working within the partitioned Polish territories in the second half of the nineteenth century. The author is not interested in the movement of theatre people across the partitions as such, but in what was associated with and sometimes even preceded and conditioned this movement: the complicated legal and civic status of the actors, and the fluid, multi-layered self-identification of these artists as potential emigrants. Various examples are presented to illustrate aspects of this phenomenon, including the incompatibility of passport designations, the legal difficulties of impoverished actors in changing their place of residence, the language skills of people living in the Polish diaspora, and the everyday experience of border controls between Austria and Russia. A new concept of submigration (psychological migration, a strategy of operating between a number of languages, forms of belonging, and cultures) is added to existing categories such as transnational migration and internal migration.