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The quest for identity and alienation are the central concerns of Anita Desai’s works. She tends to explore every aspect of a person’s life. Anita Desai’s novel Bye-Bye Blackbird deals with Indian immigrants in England before 1964, the year when England completely changed its immigration policy. The blackbirds are especially Indians flying to England. Bye–Bye Blackbird explores the world of three people who are stuck with their identity and how they have to find out their true self. The novel centers around three characters Adit, Sarah and Dev. The novel depicts the real crisis of these people who really try hard to find their own existence in an alien land, where Adit and Sarah are more inclined to India after their brutal experiences in England. But Dev who came to England with a sort of hatred began to accept it as his homeland. Through this paper I tend to explore the phases of their immigration in the light of Homi K Bhabha’s theory of Mimicry and Hybridity.