Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper explores the interaction between home, belonging, and migration by closely reading Salim Ahamed’s 2015 Malayalam film, Pathemari. The paper briefly traces migration history from Kerala to the Gulf and its impact on Kerala’s housing boom, influencing its socioeconomic and cultural landscape. Through this, the paper examines how Gulf Malayalees navigate the multifaceted and contested concept of home despite being physically and emotionally displaced – the paradox of belonging and unbelonging, in their attempts to secure a material home while working as blue-collared Malayalee migrants in the Gulf.
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