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The past has always displayed its pages to reveal to readers the complex process of migration. Migrants, initially, face problems with language, social norms, values, customs, rituals, and culinary habits in alien countries; eventually, they shape their own linguistic and social identities by adapting to the new social context, which is perforated by cultural diversity. They are undoubtedly puzzled by the encounter of multiple identities and the nostalgia for their homelands. Sometimes, personal and professional needs force people to move from their own lands to foreign lands. The plight of these immigrants, in unfamiliar social conditions, cannot be ignored. Many writers have meticulously depicted the lives of expatriates in their literary pieces. The diasporic poems of Imtiaz Dharkar and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni display the concepts of uprooting, socio-cultural loss, and the resulting nostalgia and passion. The study argues that the poems of the two writers express striking similarities in dealing with major diasporic themes such as immigration, cultural displacement and nostalgia, and that their poems serve as an agency to voice the predicament of immigrants.