This work explores Migration and Displacement in Afolabi's A Life
Elsewhere and Adichie's Americanah.It investigates migration and the
attendant displacement of the third world countries which is often
premised on the illusion of the search for a good life. Migration is
here explored in the light of how its attendant realities; of
stereotypes, gender bias, racial discrimination, class difference, among
others; amount to social exclusion, isolation and denial of
opportunity. This research proceeds on the assumptions that migration is
only an illusion of a better lease of life and that, there arein the
selected texts,representations of the tendencies of dislocations,
identity crises and stereotypes that accompany migration. Consequently,
the research adopts postcolonial discourse as a theoretical framework in
order to explore the binarisms that the tenets of Postcolonialism
provide in terms of gender, race, and class, among others. In the light
of the demands of qualitativeresearch methodology which this
dissertation adopts,the research explores the peculiar realities of
African emigrants as represented in Afolabi's A Life Elsewhereand
Adichie's Americanah, in order to exemplify the extent to whichthe
identity status of migrants lead to discrimination in their host land,
consider the role of literature in exposing the realities of migration
and explore the dislocating experiences that migration creates.Having
explored the migrant experiences of the characters in the selected
texts, the research finds that the pull and push factors are more often
than not, an effect of the imbalances in power relations in and between
countries. It also finds that a good life is not entirely an exclusive
of migration because the attendant challenges of dislocation and
stereotype are largelyhingedon migration. A good life is however,
precipitated on opportunities and/or hardwork. The research therefore
concludes that the world of migrants is a dicey one and it dislocates,
alienates and stereotypes on account of the binaries that characterise
race, gender, class and other forms of identity markers within the
experience of migration.