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Subject(s)

• Jamaicans—Québec (Province)—Montréal—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Women, Black—Québec (Province)—Montréal—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Women—Québec (Province)—Montréal—Social life and customs [Browse]

Series

• Kultur und soziale Praxis [More in this series]
• Culture and social practice ; 2703-0024

Summary note

"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."--Back cover.

Notes

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Trier) under the title: Moves, spaces and places - roots, pathways and trajectories of Jamaican women in Montreal.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-190).

Contents

• Historical overview
• Research questions and outline
• Methodology
• Theoretical concepts
• The city : localizing perspectives
• Womanhood : female spaces
• Laws of attraction : bodily practices
• Grandmas' tale : mind-trips and memories
• Take off : mobile perspectives
• Frictions in paradise : facing facts
• Roots, pathways and trajectories : processes of oscillation.

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ISBN

• 9783837658088 ((paperback))
• 3837658082 ((paperback))

OCLC

1281644720

International Article Number

9783837658088

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