Said & Adorno
If we focus on Vancouver, there's a local author that speaks to the idea of living between two worlds in his biotext Diamond Grill. (Fred Wah). The author brings up the idea of the hyphenated identity, which he describes as being "a sign of impurity…and it’s frequently erased as a reminder that the parts…are not equal to the whole". Many of the theorists look into the idea of the dual identity not being a possibility. From the dialectic form illustrating that the relationship comes from the tension or from Fanon's description of the hierarchy between the poor white & black folk. Your identity is shaped from the notion that you are from where you're from and that taints the way you are perceived in the future. Bringing it back to Said when he says that you, essentially, cannot return home once you leave and you cannot be fully immersed when you get there.
by the way if anyone was interested in a wednesday night lecture: http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/fredwah/