The word diaspora suggests a line or space between two places - somehow a permanent displacement, always travelling and never fully feeling as though you have arrived. It seems to suggest that people are living somehow out of place in a new culture and yet making their own versions of it, their own versions of self, still retaining versions of the home culture. This version of the home culture is probably out of date and will never fully feel comfortable because of the experience and perceptions enabled by the self constructed in the new or other, different cultures. This paper is an attempt to trace out diasporic elements in the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by the Dominican American writer Junot Diaz. The story deals with tbe lives of the different members of the De Leone - Calbrat family, which is under fuku, the curse that haunts the new world. It constantly moves from America to Dominican Republic and in return. The Dominican Republic's history of dictatorship plays a major role in shaping belongingness. As Oscar tries to establish his identity, reader experience poverty and diaspora.