According to Michael Laguerre, transnational identities will be accompanied by a protest position of the minorities in the western countries where they protest against the dominance of the majority people who are the original occupants of the respective countries (Laguerre, 1998). He further notes that those individuals will organize themselves in minority spaces where they will continue with their feelings of being inferior to the majority. People in such environments will mostly get involved in activities that will seek to change the host country practices to their own terms which are in line with their own home countries.

On the other hand, Robin Cohen on his list notes that they fail to appreciate the contribution of different immigrants in the labor sector. He differs sharply from Michel Laguerre about the transitional identity by proposing that individuals across the commonwealth countries will have the feeling of being British as they feel covered with a universal umbrella which is being under the colonization of the British (Cohen, 1997).

Question 2

In Drown, there are interconnected stories that seek to track the life and development of young Yunior, Rafa who is his brother and their parents. They move from Dominican Republic to New York on the neighborhoods of Washington Heights.

Due to the continued movement of Yunior family, he develops a sense of loneliness as he has no childhood friends whom he can relate. His father on the other side seems to be obsessed with something unknown (Diaz, 1996). It is out of this obsession that he beats him while growing up for being car sick. His father is also rough, and he roughs up his mom, although he loves her, he has multiple girlfriends and plays her. The rough environment that Yunior grows in has adverse effects on his adult life as he ends up as a drug dealer who hates and roughs up women.

References

Cohen, R. (1997). Global diasporas (1st ed.). London: UCL Press.

Di?az, J. (1996). Drown (1st ed.). New York: Riverhead Books.

Laguerre, M. (1998). Diasporic citizenship (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press.