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edition:Hardcover
also available: eBook Paperback
category: Social Science
published: May 2010
ISBN:9780774817356
publisher: UBC Press

Transnational Yearnings

Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City

by Jenny Burman

tagged: emigration & immigration, caribbean & west indies, hospitality, travel & tourism
Description

The global pathways that connect cities and nations are congested with people, money, and cultural transmissions. Transnational Yearnings maps a new way to look at modern contact zones and the personal interconnections that inform them by tracing circuits of migration and leisure travel between postcolonial Jamaica 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. Innovative and provocative, this book is about the desires, intimacies, and power relations that at once inform and reflect transnational migration and the diasporization of urban space.

About the Author

Jenny Burman

Contributor Notes

Jenny Burman is an assistant professor of communication studies at McGill University.

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