Analysis Of Real Life Migration In Mohsin Hamid's Exit West

As Yohan’s journey is shown through the film, there is also another perspective that shows more personal reflection of what it means to be a migrant leaving their country and why migrants leave their families. Yohan’s brother said that he was pressured to travel to the United States because of the economic situation and his

People who tend to migrate a lot are less applicable of understanding and appreciating new ways of life. In response to an essay by Salman Rushdie on the benefits of moving, Scott Russell Sanders, in his essay “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,” claims that people should not immerse themselves into places but rather into ideas and values and also that people should care for the earth rather than for their egotistic desires. Through his use of a nostalgic tone and implied metaphors Sanders critiques Rushdie’s claims about the negative impact of migration and he also demonstrates why it is better for people to immerse themselves to their location rather than old beliefs and habits.

Ha and the refugee's life is turning inside out because they were forced to leave everything behind and were forced to leave the country.Here is some quotes and what they mean from the book Inside out and BackAgain and information text Refugee: Who, Where, and why. ¨More than 14 million men, women, and children have been forced to flee their homes towns, and countries because they are afraid to stay,¨(Refugee: Who,Where, and Why by Catherine Gevert, page 9). The refugees fled their homes to get out of

He illustrates the suffering people experience at the hands of the desert, the loss that shatters the families of those who lose their lives during the journey, and the desire for the American Dream that motivates the border crossers to risk their lives. The emotional tales in the book give a face to a group of people who are nothing more than a statistic to many Americans. The vast majority of people seem to have no comprehension of the impact that different policies will have, regardless of their support for or rejection of our current immigration policy. Big picture information about illegal immigration is intangible and incomprehensible to most. The emotional arguments provide readers with information that the average person can work with, such as the story of Memo and Lucho crossing the border and eking out a life in the US afterwards (De León 167-201). The stories provided by the book can also connect the effects of immigration policy on the individual to the impact it can have on large groups of people who had no intention of crossing the border. For example, the testimony about Maricela’s life and death provided in Chapter 10 connects the suffering Maricela experienced to the pain her family and friends feel after they learn of her death (De León 243-264). These stories aid in the creation of better arguments about illegal immigration.

Immigration is a very dangerous and risky journey. Everyday immigrants try so hard to make it to the United States. This journey involves parents trying to support kids back home, families trying to start over, or kids trying to get to their mom; but some do not make it through this hardship. Those individuals, who make it, try like never before to support themselves and the family they needed to leave behind. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a well written novel that uses many pathos, logos, and ethos examples. Each one of them is used effectively because of the way students are persuaded in believing there true. Elements from the quotes can reveal that Sonia is knowledgeable and

Scott Russell Sanders’s Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World is written in response to Salman Rushdie’s essay, rejecting the notion that movement is inherently good while staying in one place is bad. Sanders believes that settling down enhances the chances of creating a dependable home for ourselves and all around us. He achieves the development of his perspective throughout his essay in order to support his own views against migration while also opposing Rushdie’s belief.

Author, Scott Russell Sanders, once wrote, “Wholesale dis-placement may be inevitable; but we should not suppose that it occurs without disastrous consequences for the earth and for ourselves” (70-74 Sanders). This quote can be traced back to his work, “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,” in which he encompasses the revolutionizing topic of human migration. He commences his essay with the origins of migration and proposes that Americans are now likely to concur with the idea of migrating, as a result of Salman Rushdie’s story, a writer who left his native India for England. However, Sanders contradicts and retaliates Rushdie’s notion. Rushdie believes migrating is imperative, meanwhile Sanders thinks the idea of migrating is more detrimental, rather than beneficial. In Scott Russell Sanders’s composition, “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,” he utilizes effective diction and fear tactics in order to develop his perspective about moving.

“The Arrival,” by Shaun Tan, is a wordless novel that depicts the experience immigrants go through when vacating their home countries to start new in a different country. Readers can see that on the first page there is a collage of headshots from multiple people of different ethnicity and religion. The first image page of the wordless novel helps viewers get a clearer image of what the novel is about. In “The Arrival,” Shaun Tan depicts the hardships and enjoyment that immigrants experience when moving to a new country, since the piece was written in 2006, there seems to be more hardships than enjoyment when coming to the United States, which means the idea of the United States being a melting pot is flawed.

Thomas Jefferson believed that expanding westward was the key to a healthy nation. Forty percent of the population lived in trans -Appalachian west. Most people had left their homes from the East for a economic opportunity.

The book started off with the family in the US and their visas expired. They are driving to the US / Canadian border in order to apply for asylum. The reason they applied for asylum was that the US was starting to crack down on illegal immigrants, after multiple terrorist attacks killing hundreds people from the US.

A lot of them face tons of obstacles like lack of money to move, leaving their families behind, or having to deal with the immigration policies of the country they want to move to. Some people migrate, but then face backlash from people of their new country. Many natives don’t like immigrants coming into their country and taking their jobs. An example of the difficulties some migrants face is with Amir and his nephew in ‘The Kite Runner”. Amir gets a call from an old friend who explained that Amir’s brother and wife died and that his nephew, Sohrab, was in an orphanage. He goes there to find him, but the Taliban took him a month earlier. He sets up a meeting with a Taliban and finds out they were sexually assaulting him. They get into a fight and Amir and his nephew escape. He asked him later if he wanted to move back to California with him, and he said yes. Later on though, the American embassy says that since he can not prove that Sohrab’s parents are dead, he can’t move back and that he might have to go back to the orphanage. Eventually Amir's wife gets his nephew a visa, but others aren’t so lucky. Migrants face many obstacles when trying to move out of their

An Indian writer and migration enthusiast, Salman Rushdie, claims that, the creation of radically new types of human beings is the effect of mass migrations of people who root themselves in their ideas, instead of places. Most would agree that Rushdie’s claim is highly debatable. In Scott Russell Sanders’, Staying Put, he counter argues the opinion of Rushdie with a critical yet sarcastic and subjective tone to skillfully develop his perspective about moving. Scott Sanders uses a critical tone in lines one through twenty-six to criticize the way that human beings have gotten too comfortable with finding new places to live after mistreating their previous habitations without regard to fellow creatures or descendants.

People migrate for a multitude of reasons, including but not limited to: moving from a developing country to a developed country, moving from a place where their human rights are being violated, moving for jobs and money earning opportunities, moving away from internal conflict and war, and moving from areas affected by natural disasters. Recently, there has been an influx of people migrating to Europe, and the continent has been affectively transformed from a place of emigration to a place of immigration. Many of the migrants who want to enter into Europe are moving in an attempt to escape the harsh post-colonial way of life in Northern Africa, and in order to find a way to earn a living. Migrants make treacherous journeys, often risking their lives, in the hopes of crossing borders and improving their circumstances, but often find that the outcome is not what they were looking for.

“The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call,” (Grahame, 103). Humans have been migrating from place to place for a long time. Human migration is when one moves from one place to another in order to gain benefit. Most of the time, in history, migrants were seeking opportunity. They wanted to have access to new and better things such as land, food, and water. Sometimes, they just wanted a safe place because of war surrounding them. Throughout the history of human migration, difficulties of migrants have been recorded. The first human migrants traveled by foot, which adds multiple factors or dilemmas in order to do so. Many migrants circumvented past these barriers, but some struggled to or did not at all. Furthermore, migrants went through situations where food and clothes were limited, scarce, and the temperature was not on their side. They needed specific strategies and tactics to get past these complications for survival. It was a gamble between life and death.

Tahar Ben Jelloun, a Moroccan writer, states: “Migration is no longer a solution; it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they’re knocking on doors that are not open.” Probably, the author is right because most of the migrants even do not know what awaits them in a new country. Before thinking about the effects of migration, people should draw a distinction between emigration and immigration. The immigration is beneficial, whereas the emigration is totally disadvantageous for a country. People from industrially backward regions do not value their current lifestyle and conditions, and they cannot resist the lure of a wonderful life in economically advanced countries. Without thinking about the consequences that will follow their decision, people decide migrate from own motherland. And more likely these consequences will be negative not only for emigrants but also for countries people are going to leave and migrate to. Such a movement of people may leave a dent on the economics of the host countries, and on the society and customs of the left countries. In 21st century, it is already time to start actions in order to decrease the incidence of migration. Although for some people emigration is helpful to solve their own personal problems, it is obvious that it may lead to several effects like social devastation, brain drain and increasing the level of economy.