The Articulation of Migrant Spatiality in Kureishi’s Cinema: Revisiting My Beautiful Launderette

As a legacy of colonization, the Third World’s fantasy West as utopia welcoming melting pot with innumerable wealth had nurtured identifications drastic immigrant influx to metropolitan centers. But their quest for unique spatiality in Centre was often challenged by catastrophic ordeals that expatriates happened undergo there. In this context, paper argues Hanif Kureishi Pakistani cinematographer tangible experiences has been able successfully depict migrants’ new ‘My Beautiful Launderette’ (1989). This literary analysis is qualitative nature and it deploys theoretical interpretations Mitchel Foucault Henry Lefebvre discover spatiality. According findings study, immigrants’ geographical dislocation from periphery fluctuation between native territory host locale. The dual existence amidst migrant turbulence upsized multiple immigrants have entrapped within varied trajectories ideological shift socio – cultural transition. controversial socio-political upheavals under Margret Thatcher not only undermined inclinations find identity space accumulation embracing western notions but greatly disturbed progress. Expatriates’ incapability locate themselves center owing prevalent racial polarizations intensely traumatized psychology embrace traditional values. Similarly, such psychological can be ubiquitously relatable Sri Lankan sphere.