Analyzing Push and Pull Factors for Migrants in Khalid Hosseini’s And the Mountain Echoed, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

Abstract

The phenomenon of migration has becomes a great debate in the present times world. People are leaving their homes and moving to host lands due to a number of factors. Among these include push and pull factors. The present study has discussed Khalid Hosseini’s And the Mountain Echoed, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West regarding push and pull factors behind migrants’ movement to host lands. The study aims at exploring circumstances in which characters in the selected novel move and impacts of such conditions on their lives. The present study has employed Lee’s Push & Pull’ model who argued that people around the world are migrating for a variety of reasons that can be summarized in two common terms, ‘push’ and ‘pull’. The selected novelists tend to portray migration in more variable ways than anticipated by previous theory of migration.