From Bastuhara to Immigrati: Resistance and Refugee Solidarity in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island

Refugees exist throughout human history, though it is after the British imperial collapse that term ‘refugee’ finds currency in South Asia. This paper shows how refugee solidarity different expressions face of resistance and securitization two Amitav Ghosh’s novels ˗ from state-sponsored genocide refugees regime a left-wing government The Hungry Tide, to right-wing denying entry immigrants stranded on Italian coastline Mediterranean Gun Island. also unfolds politicization issues like sheltering socializing affects idea solidarity: indifference civic society atrocities against Tide stands contrast with support extended illegal by rights activists despite opposition “right-wing, anti-immigrant groups” Finally, reflects how, this age economic globalization, digital media appears more powerful than any doctrinaire ideology ‘dispossessed’ managing refugees’ solidarity.