Vol. VI
Issue: 1&2
Journal of Migration Affairs
Sept 2023 & March 2024
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Bearing Witness to Racial Hatred and Challenging Patriarchy: An Intersectional Approach to Violet Cannon’s Migration Memoir, Gypsy Princess: The True Story of a Romany Childhood
The paper explores how Violet Cannon, a Romany Gypsy writer, poignantly presents the saga of Gypsy life in her memoir Gypsy Princess: The True Story of a Romany Childhood. In her own inimitable way
READ MOREReclamation of the Istanbul City and the Migrant Flâneuse in Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
The paper argues that Elif Shafak’s novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, constructs a counter-narrative to Istanbul’s existing narratives as a cosmopolitan city by recounting the lived bodily experiences of a migrant flâneuse.
READ MOREA Land to Call One’s Own; Looking at Attia Hosain’s Essay Deep Roots to Understand Her Sense of Belonging/Alienation as a Migrant
Attia Hosain (1913-1998), a novelist and a short story writer, was born and educated in Lucknow. In 1947, she moved to England and worked at BBC, where she presented her own women’s programmes. Attia Hosain’s essay Deep Roots
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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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Issue: 1&2
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