Representation of Immigrants’ Life in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

Hidayah, Nur Laili (2021) Representation of Immigrants’ Life in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya.

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Abstract

The research is about immigrants‘ life reflected in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West. The objective of the research is to find factors that encourage Saeed and Nadia, the main characters, to migrate and to reveal the representation of the life of immigrants in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West. Three theories are applied in this study i.e. representation, transnationalism, and migration. In analyzing the factors that encourage Saeed and Nadia to migrate Everett S. Lee‘s theory of migration is applied and in analyzing the representation of the life of immigrants, theory of representation by Stuart Hall and theories of transnationalism by some theorists are applied. Moreover, this research is designed as descriptive qualitative research with sociological approach. The source of the data in this research is Mohsin Hamid‘s Exit West which was published by Riverhead Books, New York in 2017 and the data are words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs related to the topic of the research. The results of the analysis show that driving factors that encourage Saeed and Nadia to immigrate are 1) area of origin including the war that is breaking out in their country, loosing houses and flats, loosing jobs, and paralyzed municipial services like electricity, piped gas and water; 2) area of destination including hope for a better life; 3) personal factorss which is about love and freedom; 4) In the proces of migration, Saeed and Nadia face intervening obstacles, namely difficulty in finding the door used for migration that has not been guarded by the militant group, leaving loved ones, and rejection from the government of the country where they migrate. When living as immigrants Saeed and Nadia have to deal with several problems. When they live as illegal immigrants in Mykonos, London and Marin, they not well received by the natives, Then they also cheated their friends and they ran out of money, they are traumatized, struggle to defend the mansion, fight with the Nativists, face uncomfortable feelings towards their fellow immigrants, religion, they finally decided to settle in Marin. After conducting the analysis, the writer finds out that After doing the analysis, the writer found that to live as an immigrant is not easy. Despite the many obstacles faced, the immigrants in the novel Exit West are depicted as still struggling to get a decent life.

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