Vol. IV
Issue: 2
Journal of Migration Affairs
March 2022
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The Journey from ‘Darkness’ to ‘Light’: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and the Phenomenon of Rural to Urban Internal Migration in India
Aravind Adiga’s debut novel, The White Tiger (2008), has over the years been widely studied from different perspectives, but its engagement with the theme of internal migration has remained unexplored. This paper seeks to address
READ MORELoss of the Swedish Idyll and Xenophobia: Criminal Detective Kurt Wallander in Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers
Swedish crime fiction writer, Henning Mankell, introduces his police detective Kurt Wallander in the first novel of the Wallander series, Faceless Killers. This paper studies the issue of xenophobia in the Swedish context, and how it affects the protagonist of the novel
READ MORESilence as a Tool of Oppression and Voice as a Tool of Resistance as Portrayed in Select Autobiographies and Memoirs by Migrant Women
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed large-scale migration across the world, transcending borders and giving birth to migrant literature.It strives to project the emotional, psychological, socio-political, cultural and economic aspects of migrant lives
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Migrants from Disparate Terrains: Entangled Identities in Wide Sargasso Sea
This paper attempts to explore the changing patterns of identities among the dwellers of the two Caribbean Islands—Coulibri and Granbois—in the wake of the 1833 Emancipation Act and its implications for the multi-ethnic populace of the land
READ MORERoots and Routes: Tracing the Trends of Indo-Fijian Fiction
Fiction emanating from the Fiji Islands is as varied as its people. In the pantheon of Fijian Literature, there is expatriate and local writing, iTaukei writing in English and Fijian language, writings from the island of Rotuma and works of Indo-Fijians.
READ MOREHead, Adichie and the Patterns of Migration Struggles
Over the years, migration literature has focused on migrants’ identities, shifts, and modes of negotiating certain tensions and prospects presented by identity-defining factors confronting migrants. Migration literature has also foregrounded identity shifts necessary for migrants’
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