Ritushmita Sharma
Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of English, Dibrugarh University, ritu92oct@gmail.com, Orchid id: 0000-0002-2979-6810
Volume 11, Number 3, October-December, 2019 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.16
Abstract
Migration can be conceived as one of the strongest and remarkable signifiers in order to describe the distinguishing features of human beings in the present scenario. With the rapid increase in industrialisation and urbanisation, thousands and thousands of people from the third-world countries are seen to be migrating in search of a new life or opportunities. So, it can be said that the phenomena of migration appear to exert influence upon every nook and crannies of the world thereby becoming the crucial part of contemporary societies. However, the experience of migration brings forth the emergence of migrant identities that undergoes displacement and deracination not only in terms of geographical boundaries but also in terms of cultural bereavement. This as a result enables us to understand the intricacies of hyphenated and hybrid migrant identities that they become due to their realisation of cultural difference. It is on this ground that the present analysis aims to throw light to the case of Bangladeshi migrants in the German city as depicted by Ronny Noor in his novel Snake Dance in Berlin (2009) and thereby to identify the subtle nuances of immigrant psyche. While doing so, the research paper also attempts to observe the circumstances under which the Bangladeshi migrants lived or the strategies deployed by them in order to adjust with a socio-cultural environment which seems to be in sharp contrast to the country of their origin
Keywords: migration, immigrant, displacement, Bangladesh
