ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to evoke three figures of the tension between origin and destination, three figures that kind of embody the sociocultural breaks of individuation in the worlds of immigration, three figures of ethnicity that were inspired by three classical figures used to name oppressed people in American sociology: the victim, the trickster and the hero. The first figure, the victim, is a figure of a refuge in nostalgia. The second figure is a figure of the post-modern individual, the figure of a cosmopolitism that would intend to be emancipated from living conditions to the point of pretending that it only takes after itself. It is also a figure of flight and refusal, a figure that can be included in a perspective of an individual taken into the zapping of a multiple personality. The third figure is a figure of authenticity in the meaning Charles Taylor.
