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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.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
11 January 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837658088
Format: Paperback
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Lisa Johnson, born in 1988, is an associated postdoc researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Trier and a lecturer for Cultural Studies at Saarland University. She completed her doctorate in the field of cultural anthropology in 2020 as a member of the DFG-funded International Research Training Group Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces at Trier University. Her main research areas focus on mobility, migration and return migration as well as transculturality, music and sound, in Jamaica and North America.
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