
The racial segregation inflected in all aspect of life as behavior, economic and social. And both themes have played an importuned role in the society in Johunsbirg. Also it aims to clarify the impact of racial segregation and migration on African’s society in the novel cry beloved country was written. The decisive aim of this research is to study the way in which the writer portraits racial segregation.


The oral tradition stories passed down verbally from one generation to another is common to all of African people. Fiction has been written in all of the South Africa‘s official language with language body of work in African and English. South Africa has a rich and divers literary works dominating fiction and nonfiction. It depicts the suffering of elderly black cleric when his son murders a white man and his sister became a prostitute. It was regarded by many writers as the revolutionary in the ideological atmosphere of the country in 1948, because of its main point which deals with the oppression of the white from the black. The concern of this study is to investigate the impact of racial segregation and migration on African society in Alan Paton literary production specially his most known novels, Cry, the Beloved Country.

The behaviors of Stephen Camalo represent the phenomenon and how the people deal with in a Christian society. The writer depicts also the way that society in the South Africa deals with stigma especially the virtues which exist in society. Alan Paton portraits the struggles of racial segregation and their impact on migration in South Africa society. The author succeeds to defend his issue during the time of racial segregation. ” It means that the practice and its strict result in social and economic problems lead to migration from rural to urban areas. The techniques adopted in analyzing the data was coding to obtain the relation between racial segregation and migration as depicted by Alan Paton in his novel” Cry the Beloved Country The following results were found: There is strong relation between racial segregation and migration. The data have been collected via the authentic material which is Alan Paton’s novel” Cry, the beloved country” as well as other materials and information which were taken from different books encyclopedias and researches. The descriptive analytical method was adopted. This study aims to investigate the impact of racial segregation and migration on South African society.

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