Issues of Immigration and Hybridity in the light of Globalization in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Abstract

This study aims to analyze hybrid identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003). The novel is concerned with individuals who are caught in the intricacies of globalization and immigration to new lands. The study makes an effort to present how hybridity is portrayed in the novel and how it impacts identity. It foregrounds the conflict of identity because of ideological differences and issues of adaptation, and acculturation in the global metropolis space. Also, the paper depicts the characters' lives in the novel, and how the cultural dislocation they experience, as a result of immigration, subjects them to actual identity tests and pressure while also providing them with opportunities for numerous and flexible identities. The early opposition the characters encounter and the people they come into contact with, in the environment in which they live, in many ways aid their development as autonomous individuals.