Abstract:

In recent years, when the immigration problem has been widely discussed, Croatian-born Tena Štivičić, one of the notable playwrights of the British theater, made a name for herself with her plays Fragile (2007) and Invisible (2011) in which she dealt with this problem, and these plays won awards such as the European Author's Award and the Innovation Award. In her play Invisible, which is examined in this study, the author tries to express the problems of immigrants by addressing the problem of international migration on the economic, political, cultural and psychological basis in the complex structure of our globalizing world since the last quarter of the twentieth century. In this sense, the author, who deals with the migration stories of the characters by making implicit references to the wars and conflicts that took place in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, also strikingly reveals their struggle for existence and survival with their cultural identities in the multicultural and capitalist-based social structure of England. Štivičić, who tries to reflect the international migration problem mainly from the perspective of immigrants who feel invisible and worthless, also includes the perspectives of the British, who are the other interlocutors of the issue. In the study, the phenomenon of migration, which has become a difficult problem to overcome, is discussed with its causes and consequences, based on the author's play Invisible. Štivičić's approaches to the solution of the immigration problem are examined, in the light of the views of some theorists such as Immanuel Wallerstein, Etienne Balibar and Homi K. Bhabha, regarding the identity process of immigrants and the racist and marginalizing treatments they are exposed to.

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