Week 2 Courtney Saeteurn

Evelyn Hu-Deharts paper "Asian American Formations in Age of Globalization" examines Asian American identity while also incorporating their Asian homeland as well. The article talks about transmigrants. Transmigrants are privileged in the fact that they are allowed to be actively involved in both an adopted country and also in their homeland. Race plays a huge part in identity even though we don't like to think of it that way. But Asian Americans are different because they are both rejected in their homeland and their adapted land. So how does an Asian American conceptualize their identity when they don't really belong in either of their respective countries. I think that people change their identities in relation to the situation that they are in. Since identity is fluid, one can choose to portray a different identity to make themselves more appealing in a certain situation. Also, it seems that transmigrants actively portray two identities, one for their homeland and one for their adapted country. The merging of these completely different two identities seems not to mesh.