by Seemi Aziz, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Authors outside of the cultures they are representing write both the immigration books from this as well as the previous entry. Another famous author, Ellis writes this book. Ellis has become an author who has become an authority is representing Muslims in books specifically after her success with the Breadwinner trilogy where a girl is forced to dress as a boy to help her all female family to survive in Afghanistan.
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by Seemi Aziz, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Day of the Pelican is by a renowned author, Katherine Paterson, which has the impact of migration is placed front and centre. Patterson’s book focusing on the political and religious conflicts and struggles in the Eastern European regions of Serbia and Kosovo was long over due.
The story revolves around the struggles for survival of a young girl. Meli Lleshi. She is ethnically an Albanian Muslim who is settled in Kosovo. The family of seven, are a Muslim family who stem from rural upbringing and are targeted by Kosovars and Serbians alike because of their background and their alliance to the freedom fighting group of individuals struggling for the rights of the Albanian Kosovars against Serbian oppressors known as the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army). Meli and her brother Mehmet share the major role in this story.
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by Seems Aziz, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
MIGRATION: A WAY OF LIFE
Generally, immigration can be due to many reasons some of which could be due to family/marriage, work/better life or as refugees from war, genocide, and unrest. In the effect of immigration on characters one observes a certain general impact as the characters go through the process of settling in their adopted countries while they usually settle in to a better life while continuing to hold on to their old life. Letting go of who a person has been for a long time is not easy. However, the impact of effects of genocide, war and unrest are ever present in an immigrant’s life and are not easy to shake off.
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