1. The Nature of Belonging
... transitory "comings and goings" of the camp. This ceaseless instability serves to establish the migrants as people who live uncertain lives constantly wondering "what would be coming next." As a part of our nature, we tend to gravitate towards those from our home country when migrating, and Skrzyrnecki makes a comparison using a simile between the migrants "like a homing ... reflected in Spirited Away with further allusions to the migrant experience. This animated bildungsroman (coming of age story, a story of where the character grows up) follows a sullen 10 year old girl, Chihiro, who...
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