Title Transnational yearnings : tourism, migration, and the diasporic city / Jenny Burman.

Publication Info.	Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 205 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.
Contents	Disservice industry : colonial and postcolonial tourism development in Jamaica -- Global subjects, tourist objects : the souvenir trade in Jamaica -- Charged circuits : transmigration and diasporic conditions -- Migrant remittances : cultural economies of yearning -- "Danger to the public" : targeting and deporting Jamaican-born Torontonians -- Masquerading Toronto through Caribana : diasporic carnival meets the sign "Music ends here."
Summary	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.
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Subject	Jamaicans -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions.
	Jamaicans.
	Ontario -- Toronto.
	Social conditions.
	Tourism -- Social aspects -- Jamaica.
	Tourism -- Social aspects.
	Jamaica.
	Jamaica -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
	Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.
	Transnationalism.
	Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
	Canada.
	Emigration and immigration.
	Jamaican Canadians -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions.
	Social aspects.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
	Ontario.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
	Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Burman, Jenny, 1970- Transnational yearnings. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010 9780774817356 (OCoLC)471042822
ISBN	9780774817370 (electronic book)
	0774817372 (electronic book)
	128333545X
	9781283335454
	9780774817356
	0774817356

Title Transnational yearnings : tourism, migration, and the diasporic city / Jenny Burman.

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