The Politics of Migration in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck

Abstract

Caryl Phillips’ A Distant Shore and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck present migrants cut in the complexity that defines the current global age. This paper accordingly uses the above texts to investigate migrants’ existence in the western spaces of Britain and America while most importantly, highlighting the mechanisms they use to survive. The paper again notes how the selected texts fit migrants in planes that concurrently involve conflict and cooperation. It subsequently examines the dynamics of globalisation reiterated in the fact that the practice envelops all the planet, yet allows diverse cultures to project themselves. It uses as theoretical guide globalisation in projection of the theory’s proposition that because human beings have alienated from selves and become others, inclusive models should define the human society. The central thesis of this article is that increased migration has ushered in a new epoch which contests difference and obliges humanity to construct holistic manners for the betterment of the human race.