A Reflection on A Combination of Melissa's Writings

A Reflection on A Combination of Melissa's Writings
The article "Welcoming the Other" by Melissa Lee introduces three novels, A Free Life (2007) and A Map of Betrayal (2014), and For Today I Am a Boy (2014). The books tell three different stories exploring the relationship between the homeland, new country, home, and individual and the lack of identity of these foreigners. Language barriers and how to break down their previous emotions and perceptions and reinvent themselves as new individuals are significant challenges experienced by immigrants.
Another challenge is rejection in immigrant communities with the same background and culture where old immigrants reject newcomers. This is perceived as a refusal to utilize their native language to communicate with newcomers. "The refusal to speak in the visitor's language is where Derrida concludes that violence — the first violence — begins, in which we impose on the visitor translation into t...