THE CONCEPT OF IMMIGRANT IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S STORY CALLED “GOOD ADVICE IS RARER THAN RUBIES”
THE CONCEPT OF IMMIGRANT IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S STORY CALLED “GOOD ADVICE IS RARER THAN RUBIES”

Summary/Abstract: In the European context, it is observed that immigration has changed the socioeconomic structures of the countries in Europe including Britain and turned them into postcolonial societies. Indeed, immigration and mobility exist at every stage of the life cycle. In addition, human migration has occurred since the beginning of history, either by force or due to slavery or colonization. In this sense, migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were largely related to industrialization and globalization. Britain accepted a significant number of immigrants from its colonies where it lost power since the Second World War. The flow of immigrants from Asia and Africa continued until the 1990s. Immigration has exposed immigrants to an endless sense of otherness and difference. Bringing the hope of living with better living conditions in a foreign country, the immigrant must deal with social, cultural, and psychological humiliation, marginalization, and exclusion. In this context, Salman Rushdie's short story "Good Advice Is Rare Than Rubies" has been examined in order to reveal the perception of immigrants and marginalization imposed on people through Miss Rahena trying to immigrate to England.

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