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Social Science Emigration & Immigration

Transnational Yearnings

Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City

by (author) Jenny Burman

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2011
Category
Emigration & Immigration, Emigration & Immigration, Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Caribbean & West Indies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774859547
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774817363
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774817356
    Publish Date
    May 2010
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

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Contributor Notes

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