Transnational Yearnings
Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City
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2010
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-1735-6 (ISBN)
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
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By exploring circuits of migration and personal exchange between Toronto and Jamaica, this book maps a new way to look at postcolonial contact zones and transnational migration.
The global pathways that connect cities and nations are congested with people, money, and cultural transmissions. Transnational Yearnings is about the migrations and uneven exchanges that bind postcolonial Jamaica to the diasporic city. It is about the desires, intimacies, and power relations that at once inform and reflect transnational migration and the diasporization of urban space.
This innovative and provocative book maps out a new way to look at contemporary contact zones and global interconnections as it traces circuits of migration and leisure travel between the Caribbean and Toronto, a city that has become for Jamaican Canadians both a place of promise and cultural vitality and a site of criminalization and exclusion through deportation.
Transnational Yearnings is an important addition to recent scholarship on Caribbean transnationalism and Canadian-Caribbean relations, one that paints a fuller portrait of Jamaican immigrants than we often see.
The global pathways that connect cities and nations are congested with people, money, and cultural transmissions. Transnational Yearnings is about the migrations and uneven exchanges that bind postcolonial Jamaica to the diasporic city. It is about the desires, intimacies, and power relations that at once inform and reflect transnational migration and the diasporization of urban space.
This innovative and provocative book maps out a new way to look at contemporary contact zones and global interconnections as it traces circuits of migration and leisure travel between the Caribbean and Toronto, a city that has become for Jamaican Canadians both a place of promise and cultural vitality and a site of criminalization and exclusion through deportation.
Transnational Yearnings is an important addition to recent scholarship on Caribbean transnationalism and Canadian-Caribbean relations, one that paints a fuller portrait of Jamaican immigrants than we often see.
Jenny Burman is an assistant professor of communication studies at McGill University.
Introduction: Mobilities, Immobilizations, and Transnational Desires
1 Disservice Industry: Colonial and Postcolonial Tourism Development in Jamaica
2 Global Subjects, Tourist Objects: The Souvenir Trade in Jamaica
3 Charged Circuits: Transmigration and Diasporic Conditions
4 Migrant Remittances: Cultural Economies of Yearning
5 “Danger to the Public”: Targeting and Deporting Jamaican-Born Torontonians
6 Masquerading Toronto through Caribana: Diasporic Carnival Meets the Sign “Music ends here”
Conclusion: “It is not enough/to be pause”
Notes
References
Index
| Verlagsort | Vancouver |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► Karibik |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7748-1735-6 / 0774817356 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-1735-6 / 9780774817356 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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