A critical study of contemporary British and Irish fiction that examines how novels and short stories represent migration, displacement, and the negotiation of belonging, focusing on the narrative strategies—voice, temporality, and spatial form—that convey migrants’ experiences. It explores how literary texts engage with legal, social and cultural frameworks (race, class, gender, citizenship) to reveal processes of inclusion and exclusion, and considers the ethical and aesthetic stakes of writing migration. Overall, the work argues that fiction both reflects and reshapes public understandings of migration, national identity, memory, and transnational belonging.