چكيده
Immigration as an important phenomenon has changed today’s world. Immigration has advantages and disadvantages. Although immigration can advance some peopleʹs lives, it has destructive effects on humans’ identities because of the over bearing situation. The rate of female migration is growing faster than male migration. The United States was one of the main destinations for immigrants. It has been considered as a country in which immigrants can achieve their aims and it has been especially one of the ideal countries for female immigrants. Julie Otsuka an award-winning Japanese American author is known for her historical fiction novels dealing with Japanese Americans. Her books are known for calling attention to the plight of Japanese Americans throughout World War II. This study will aim to show immigration not only as a destructive action in Japanese female immigrants’ lives of Julie Otsuka’s novel, The Buddha in the Attic, but also it will show how a mother’s life can influence on her children and destroy their lives. The novel explains the Japanese women (Picture Brides) whose lives, identities, and humanities are influenced by a travel to a destination or utopia, which is called the United States. The reason for writing this research is to consider immigration through three generations. The old Japanese people who force their daughters to immigrate in order to have a better life without knowing how their children’s humanity and identity influenced by it. The Japanese women who as picture brides forced by different problems to go to another country that they just know its name, and finally the immigrants’ children who are born in America but they have an unpleasant childhood and life. Immigration and its destructive consequences cannot be ignored because humanʹs identities and their humanities are influenced by that.
