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The global pathways that connect cities and nations are congested with people, money, and cultural transmissions. Transnational Yearnings is about the migrations and uneven exchanges that bind postcolonial Jamaica to the diasporic city. It is about the desires, intimacies, and power relations that at once inform and reflect transnational migration and the diasporization of urban space. This innovative and provocative book maps out a new way to look at contemporary contact zones and global interconnections as it traces circuits of migration and leisure travel between the Caribbean and Toronto, a city that has become for Jamaican Canadians both a place of promise and cultural vitality and a site of criminalization and exclusion through deportation. Transnational Yearnings is an important addition to recent scholarship on Caribbean transnationalism and Canadian-Caribbean relations, one that paints a fuller portrait of Jamaican immigrants than we often see.

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As a study of Caribbean transnationalism, this is one of the best and most inviting I have read. Burman's scholarship is excellent and her prose is well-written and accessible. Perhaps her book's most intriguing contribution to studies of globalization is in its focus on the host community as more than simply a static entity but as something that actively shapes global Caribbean identities. Transnational Yearnings would be a valuable text in undergraduate courses on tourism, Caribbean societies, and transnationalism.<br>- Philip Scher, editor of Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture and Representation <br>Burman provides compelling insights into transnationalism and the circular exchanges that occur, both in regards to the Jamaican Canadian diaspora and to Canadian tourism in Jamaica. The field of Caribbean Canadian Studies is expanding, and Transnational Yearnings will make a useful and important contribution to the areas of diasporic studies, migration studies, o

As a study of Caribbean transnationalism, this is one of the best and most inviting I have read. Burman's scholarship is excellent and her prose is well-written and accessible. Perhaps her book's most intriguing contribution to studies of globalization is in its focus on the host community as more than simply a static entity but as something that actively shapes global Caribbean identities. Transnational Yearnings would be a valuable text in undergraduate courses on tourism, Caribbean societies, and transnationalism.<br>- Philip Scher, editor of Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture and Representation <br>Burman provides compelling insights into transnationalism and the circular exchanges that occur, both in regards to the Jamaican Canadian diaspora and to Canadian tourism in Jamaica. The field of Caribbean Canadian Studies is expanding, and Transnational Yearnings will make a useful and important contribution to the areas of diasporic studies, migration studies, immigration and settlement studies, as well as cultural studies.<br>- Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Sociology Department/Caribbean Studies, Ryerson University

As a study of Caribbean transnationalism, this is one of the best and most inviting I have read. Burman's scholarship is excellent and her prose is well-written and accessible. Perhaps her book's most intriguing contribution to studies of globalization is in its focus on the host community as more than simply a static entity but as something that actively shapes global Caribbean identities. Transnational Yearnings would be a valuable text in undergraduate courses on tourism, Caribbean societies, and transnationalism.<br>- Philip Scher, editor of Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture and Representation <br>Burman provides compelling insights into transnationalism and the circular exchanges that occur, both in regards to the Jamaican Canadian diaspora and to Canadian tourism in Jamaica. The field of Caribbean Canadian Studies is expanding, and Transnational Yearnings will make a useful and important contribution to the areas of diasporic studies, migration studies, B

As a study of Caribbean transnationalism, this is one of the best and most inviting I have read. Burman's scholarship is excellent and her prose is well-written and accessible. Perhaps her book's most intriguing contribution to studies of globalization is in its focus on the host community as more than simply a static entity but as something that actively shapes global Caribbean identities. Transnational Yearnings would be a valuable text in undergraduate courses on tourism, Caribbean societies, and transnationalism.<br>- Philip Scher, editor of Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture and Representation <br>Burman provides compelling insights into transnationalism and the circular exchanges that occur, both in regards to the Jamaican Canadian diaspora and to Canadian tourism in Jamaica. The field of Caribbean Canadian Studies is expanding, and Transnational Yearnings will make a useful and important contribution to the areas of diasporic studies, migration studies, r

As a study of Caribbean transnationalism, this is one of the best and most inviting I have read. Burman's scholarship is excellent and her prose is well-written and accessible. Perhaps her book's most intriguing contribution to studies of globalization is in its focus on the host community as more than simply a static entity but as something that actively shapes global Caribbean identities. Transnational Yearnings would be a valuable text in undergraduate courses on tourism, Caribbean societies, and transnationalism.<br>- Philip Scher, editor of Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture and Representation<br><br>Burman provides compelling insights into transnationalism and the circular exchanges that occur, both in regards to the Jamaican Canadian diaspora and to Canadian tourism in Jamaica. The field of Caribbean Canadian Studies is expanding, and Transnational Yearnings will make a useful and important contribution to the areas of diasporic studies, migration studies, immigration and settlement studies, as well as cultural studies.<br>- Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Sociology Department/Caribbean Studies, Ryerson University

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Jenny Burman is an assistant professor of communication studies at McGill University.

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