Moves - Spaces - Places (eBook, PDF) - Johnson, Lisa
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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.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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.