Hurricanes in Toronto: Distance, identity, and the Jamaican diaspora

Focus on Geography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Mains, Susan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIASPORA; HURRICANE; NATURAL DISASTER;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 34547092425     PISSN: 15494934     EISSN: 19498535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8535.2007.tb00183.x     Document Type: Article

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