What Is Rushdie's Argument Of Mass Migration?
In “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World”, Scott Russell Sanders refutes Salman Rushdie’s thesis that mass migration is beneficial. By following Rushdie’s argument, and then countering it, Sanders effectively structures his own argument. He begins by feigning agreement with Rushdie, then switches to casting a shadow of doubt over Rushdie’s argument and the celebrated idea of movement as a whole. In “Staying Put”, Sanders does more than simply refute Rushdie, he calls out to the American populace, to the teeming nation of immigrants, and tells them to grow roots in a land that glorifies