Last Possession

“When people lose their homes, all is not lost. As long as you speak your language, you still hold the key to the prison of the foreign land you are trapped in.”Assimilation is a process which has taken over integration slowly and resulted in countless refugees, migrants losing their identity and ties with their roots. The fear of embracing a new culture and incorporating it in the already existing framework of society has led to eating away of the new culture and replacing it with the existing one. This paper presents an insight into how, in the heightened period of refugee crisis, assimilation has led to refugees and migrants blending in with the dominant society and giving up on their heritage, so as to survive the change. Considering how determination and changes of immigrants’ identity resulting from intercultural contacts impact their socio-economic integration, this paper strives to question the notion of assimilation.