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Record Nr.

UNINA9910642295303321

Autore

Johnson Lisa <p>Lisa Johnson, Universität Trier, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

Moves - Spaces - Places : The Life Worlds of Jamaican Women in Montreal. An Ethnography / Lisa Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

9783839458082

3839458080

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Collana

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Disciplina

305.4209714

Soggetti

Migration

Mobility

Culture

Jamaica

Canada

Gender

Postcolonialism

Ethnology

Gender Studies

America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Acknowledgments    9 Abstract    11 1 Introduction    15 2 Historical Overview    21 3 Research Questions and Outline    29 4 Methodology    37 5 Theoretical Concepts    43 6 The City: Localizing Perspectives    61 7 Womanhood: Female Spaces    69 8 Laws of Attraction: Bodily Practices    89 9 Grandma's Tale: Mind-Trips and Memories    107 10 Take Off: Mobile Perspectives    121 11 Frictions in Paradise: Facing Facts    127 12 Roots, Pathways and Trajectories: Processes of Oscillation    147 13 Conclusion    163 References    171

Sommario/riassunto

In the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem no longer able to grasp how belonging and



home are to be found in movement. This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors by following the intricate mental and physical trajectories of their deep-rooted yearning to return home.