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- Title: Locating Diaspora: Afro-Caribbean Narratives of Migration and Settlement in Toronto, 1914-1929 (Report)
- Author : Jared G. Toney
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 140 KB
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This article examines the experiences of Afro-Caribbeans in Toronto in the early twentieth century. It identifies and analyzes the practices and processes of diaspora at the local level and considers ways in which discourses of community, nation, and race travelled between sites and across borders. In so doing, it investigates the ways in which immigrant identities were constituted, contested, and reformulated in the tension between local experience and diasporic consciousness. As well, it evaluates how borders shaped the contours of trans-local and transnational communities. By extrapolating from individual histories, this article identifies several key features, institutions, processes, and practices that defined the Afro-Caribbean experience in Toronto and informed local engagements with global black and West Indian diasporas. These factors include encounters with discriminations employment patterns, social relations, and organizations like Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association. By "locating diaspora" in Toronto, this article elucidates the intersection and ongoing dialectics between the local and the global, and illustrates the significance of borders in shaping migration networks and constituting diasporic communities. Cet article considere l'experience afro-caribeenne a Toronto au debut du vingtieme siecle. L'analyse se concentre sur l'identification des processus de creation de la diaspora ainsi que ses pratiques afin d'etudier la circulation de discours communautaires, nationaux et raciaux entre differents sites et a travers les frontieres. L'eclairage de la tension entre l'experience locale et la conscience de l' appartenance a la diaspora permet d'enqueter sur la maniere dont les identities migrantes sont constituees, contestees et re-formulees. Se faisant, l'analyse evalue l'infiuence de differentes frontieres (nationale, culturelle, sociale) sur la constitution d'identites trans-locales et transnationales. Construit a partir de recits individuels, cet article identifie les principaux traits, institutions, processus et pratiques qui definissent l'experience afro-caribeenne a Toronto et qui informent les relations de cette communaute locale avec les diasporas noires et caribieennes mondiales. Les facteurs clefs de la construction identitaire sont, entre autres, l'experience de la discrimination, le marche du travail, la sociabilite, ainsi que des organismes comme I'Universal Negro Improvement Association de Marcus Garvey. Cet articles' inscrit pleinement dans une dialectique entre le global et le local, Il * localise la diaspora * afin de demontrer l'importance de dtfferentes frontieres dans la creation de reseaux migrants et la construction identitaire au sein de la diaspora.