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

By: Burman, Jenny, 1970-.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010Description: xi, 205 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780774817356 (hbk.); 0774817356 (hbk.).Subject(s): Jamaicans -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions | Tourism -- Social aspects -- Jamaica | Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto | Jamaica -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 305.89697292071
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."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-192) and index.

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."