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Item REPRESENTATION OF MIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN SAM SELVON’S THE LONELY LONDONERS (1956), TAYEB SALIH’S SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH (1966), AND HANIF KUREISHI’S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA (1990)(2020-11-02) TAKVA, Serdar; ARAS, GökçenThis dissertation aims at reflecting how migrants are otherized, alienated and finally, forced to have fragmented identities, who are neither Western nor Eastern. The study discusses migrant experience in Sam Selvon’s, Tayeb Salih’s and Hanif Kureishi’s postcolonial novels in the light of postcolonial theory mainly, Fanonian perspective. European imperialism, as a systematic idea for exploiting other nations, emerged almost in the fifteenth century through colonial interests. European Powers, claiming that they would civilize the others, enslaved non-western communities, prospered accordingly, and dominated the worldwide economy. Among the imperial powers, Great Britain has been the most influential in the history of imperialism. The colonial activities of Britain began in the Elizabethan period, peaked in the nineteenth century and continued till the second part of the twentieth century. It has subjugated lots of nations from Caribbeans, Africa and Asia and played a prominent role in their economies, politics and cultures. As a result of losing its hegemonic idea in the aftermath of the Second World War, the communities from ex-colonies have started to immigrate to Britain, mainly to London to have better jobs and education because of the political and economic upheavals in their countries. Such migratory flows described as the “colonization in reverse” have changed the sociocultural structure of Britain and it has swiftly turned into a multiracial country. While migrants hope to be accepted by the motherland, western ideological perception of the other has not changed so the commonwealth has been exposed to othering policies after the mass emigration in the postcolonial epoch.