Transnational Yearnings: Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City
by Jenny Burman
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The global pathways that connect cities and nations are congested
with people, money, and cultural transmissions. These routes are
also hampered by uneven power relations and the efforts of groups to
maintain or change them. How do hopes and dreams, feelings of guilt or
loss affect transnational migration and the way migrants relate to
their environment and to one another?
This book 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.
Transnational Yearnings maps 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. By merging the study of large-scale processes, local
opposition movements, and interpersonal connections, it paints a fuller
portrait than Jamaican immigrants often receive in the media and will
appeal to anyone interested in tourism, migration, postcolonialism, and
global exchange.
- Rank: #3732347 in Books
- Published on: 2010-12-01
- Released on: 2010-12-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
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