Throughout history, wars, political conflicts, and economic crises have brought about successive waves of immigration, which have been playing a vital role in designing the demographic map of the world. Studying the theme of immigration and the problems of assimilation in human literary production is inevitable. This paper employs the New Historicist approach as its major methodology, which asserts the reciprocal roles which history and literature play in generating each other. The aim of this paper is to investigate the variety of historical contexts- biographical, political, social, and cultural- that were essential to the process of producing NoViolet Bulawayos We Need New Names, in which immigration and the problems of assimilation is a major theme. In addition, through a literary analysis to the text, the authors reaction to these contexts will be investigated in the literary work by examining the ways in which the theme of immigration and the problems of assimilation are employed as a reflection to these contexts. The outcome of this analysis will describe the relationship between history and the literary text from a New Historicist view.