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Cinema, as a field that provides data to sociological research, has recently contributed to social scientific studies as a kind of laboratory. The main reason for this is that cinema has the potential to reflect social events/phenomena and assumes a kind of projector mission. For this reason, in this study, the film Biutiful is handled within the framework of immigration, immigration situations and survival strategies of immigrants. The aim of the study is to examine the problems of individuals and groups who migrated to Europe in order to have a better chance of life. While looking at the movie Biutiful, this article has chosen to proceed in two main ways. The first is to examine the personal story of the main character through the allegory of the immigrant-father, and the second is to examine the theoretical dimensions of the movement of immigrants (Chinese and African -especially Sub-Saharan countries-) that are the subject of the film, and look at the survival strategies and immigration situations. Two important concepts come to the fore in the survival strategies of immigrants: The first is the sweetshop concept, which signifies the role of immigrants in employment, the second is the allegory of “wasted life” (referring to Bauman), which reveals the perception that immigrants are "waste" and "useless" in the social world.

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