Bustling across the Canada-US Border

Gender and the Remapping of the Caribbean across Place

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4739486
AutoresD Alissa Trotz (autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen15
Número2
Páginas59-77
Fecha de publicación2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/07990537-1334239
OpenAlexW2172289994
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas18

While discussions of transnational migration now offer rich studies of the embodied transgression of territorial boundaries, empirical investigations in the social sciences have largely tended to be preoccupied with the relations sustained between origin/home/departure and destination/away/settlement societies. This emphasis has arguably restricted our comprehension of the complexity of transnational practices that connect people not just with the place they left but across sites of migration. Drawing on the example of Caribbean women who travel regularly between Toronto and New York, this essay explores gendered and routinized modes of travel across sites of migration that displace the home-away dyad. How might we explain these visits to Caribbean people in places other than the Caribbean and to Caribbean places in North America? How might we account for the prominence of women across these circuits, and what might such gendered journeys offer to discussions of Caribbean culture and identity

Caribbean art · Comprehension · Dyad · Embodied cognition · Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Transnationalism · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Social Psychology