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In 1948, a decision in Britain granted the citizens of the United Nations member states the British citizenship and the right to free entry into Britain. This triggered a large wave of immigration to Britain from the countries that were British colonies in the past. Immigrants from many colors, nations, beliefs, and origins were used as the ' cheap labour force' within the needs of the market after the Second World War, and many literary works on the social, cultural and economic problems of immigrants were subsequently painted. At this point, this study, based on the argument which it reflects and processes the socio-economic, cultural and historical ‘reality’ and integrity of literary works in the periods of writing, even indirectly and subjectively, aims to study the immigrant characters in the novels written by Sam Selvon, Zadie Smith and Hanif Kureishi, to reinterpret Marx’s theory of alienation and to conceptualize the process of two-dimensional alienation. In other words, this study will attempt to rationalize the sense of meaninglessness and weakness that immigrant characters in their novels, one of the important representatives of the post-colonial English novel, have experienced due to their classical and ethnic backgrounds, through the concept of ‘two-dimensional alienation’ and to concrete how characters, in a chaotic environment in which people are alienated, try to realize themselves with similar escape mechanisms, and thus incorporate their truths and how they have been added to ‘white capitalism’ with their own consent.