Rushdie In Imaginary Homelands

After World War II the world saw a massive migration in many countries because of colonial impact, practicing of imperialist and discrimination (Bammer 1994). Rushdie in Imaginary Homelands discusses migration often results in confused human beings who don’t know who they are actually and how can they find themselves (124). After immigration they have a feeling of nowhere and they feel they are not standing in the right place. There is no sense of belonging rather immigrants feel alienated (Bammer). These people often representing new identities (Mills 261). These immigrants try to find their identities for some time because they are not calmed mentally. They never feel at home neither in a host country or their homelands. They become depressed

Immigrants are living on an empty space, there are tradition they have left in past and present ambiance don’t accept them. Basically they are in utter confusion standing between here and there, order and chaos, host and native, immigrant is a stranger there (Freidman 198). According to Bhatia (2002) there are some stages of migration which an immigrant go through and these are acculturation, amalgamation, separation and marginalization. First he gets happiness in the start of migration experience, he tries to get mingled in new culture and also feels like a remaining part of his own culture or origin (69). Dow (2011) negotiates these stages of immigration don’t overshadow a positive result or successful outcome of immigration. He further explains tremendous journey of immigrants that they also go through a psychological change in their lives and there is no guarantee even after this psychological stress they will be fit in the new culture. Conflict arises whenever two opposite cultures meet (P, 225). Berry (2005) throws light on immigrant’s issues like anxiety, depression, loss and utter confusion. They try to get rid of their cultural identity and try to adopt a new one. Friedman (2004) comments upon this situation that immigrant is like an outsider who can never maintain his living in host country and dreams of a home there and faces religious and social problems awakes their desire to feel at home which they don’t have anymore. No matter how much he tries to change this particular situation he fails in it (P, 198). The place or point where immigrants feel as a stranger they are in a space what Homi k Bhaba calls ‘unhomely spaces’ make immigrants longing for past they belonged once and a place where they were not treated as a stranger (p, 15). (Hron 2009) Immigrant faces hardships politically, socially and economically. They face tensions of