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The paper explores the gender issues of women in Bapsi Sidwa’s An American Brat. It portrays the voice of women who had been subject to suppression, subjugation and brutalities. The vital issues of cruelties, exploitation and sufferings of women have been discussed in this paper. The paper highlights the sensitive issues of immigration, inter-community marriage, self-identity and the faces of religion and society in which individuals have been when the dislocation takes place from one place to another. It unveils the journey of self-identity of the women particularly in case of main protagonist Feroza. The paper throws light upon the transformation of Feroza, a Parsee young girl when the dislocation takes place in her individual self. In Feroza’s case an active and valid sense of self is eroded by her dislocation as a result of migration to a new world. She was a passive character as she was a Pakistani girl that time and turned out to be an active character while being in America.