Real Life Migration In Exit West By Mohsin Hamid

Making the decision to leave your country for the better is a very difficult decision. This decision means leaving your family and friends, going somewhere that you have nothing, and possibly endangering your life. Mohsin Hamid describes the difficulties of migration through the novel Exit West. In this novel Hamid follows a young couple migrating out of their home town for safety and a better life. These reasons also apply to real life migration for why people are migrating. Hamid represents the traveling part of migration through these magical doors that leads to another country, depicts learning how to find your way in a new place, and presents the difficulties of countries not wanting migrants.
In Exit West people migrated through black doors that when you walk through you are transported into another country. Hamid describes the process of migration through the simile of doors, “It was said in those days that the passage was both like dying and being born…”(Hamid 104). Real life migration is similar to how migrating is described in the book, because people are starting over, which is the being born part, but also they are leaving

They have to find housing, a job, schooling for children, possibly learn a new language, and learn the culture of that country. In the article “Promised Land”, it focusses on people of Syria in 2015 trying to migrate to Germany. Their goal was Germany, because Germany's’ Chancellor pronounced she was accepting everyone, and all of the Syrian people were already in Germany. Because so many people were coming into Germany, “most refugees now spend months languishing in temporary camps where they are denied the very elements–school enrollment, formal language courses, job training..”(Baker 1). In the novel Saeed and Nadia went through similar, but more physical boundaries in their new countries they traveled to, including scavenging for food and