Journal of Language Studies
Tikrit University

Migration is what our species does’’. A study of migration and refugees in Samuel Selvon’s “The lonely Londoners”, and Mohsin Hameed’s “Exist West”

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Roshna Ahmad Muhamad

University of Garmian

https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.9.2.9
Abstract
The topic of migration has conquered literature considerably during the last decades especially those writers that want their writings to be considered as the world literature. Also it influenced a number of specialties such as sociology, economic, politics and etc. But as the case of literature the influence is very different since writers across the world particularly from South Asian have written remarkable literary texts in English. Non English writers have created stories which can be an effective ways for exploring migrants’ experience and refugees’ sufferings in countries away from their homelands. This study explores migration and migrants’ experiences since it has an impact on their lives economically and socially too. Migration is not only moving from one country to another but is a complex process that requires to keep the original values then changing some of them and getting used with new values in the host country. The research examines Samuel Selvon’s “The lonely Londoners, and Mohsin Hameed ‘’Exist west”. The study relies on post-colonial theory to draw deeper analyses and adopts MLA style for documentations, and ends up with the conclusions and the works cited.

Keywords

Exit west
Experience
Lonely Londoner
migration
refugees
Crossmark
Journal of Language Studies
Volume 9, Issue 2, Part 1
Spring 2025
Pages 144-151

  • Receive Date 17 January 2025
  • Accept Date 12 February 2025
  • Publish Date 01 June 2025

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