Abstract

This article presents findings of a visual ethnographic study that examined the transnational experiences and living conditions of twenty Toronto-based Jamaican Canadians aged 60 years and older. Utilizing photovoice methods, the study explored the question: What are the experiences of Jamaican Canadian transmigrant older adults who live in and across Canada and Jamaica? Findings revealed that issues of social networks, time, mobility, and well-being are constitutive of the Jamaican Canadian transnational aging experience. In fostering what interpretive gerontologists refer to as a meaningful culture of aging, the participants and researcher used arts-based processes and methods to explore Jamaican Canadians’ migratory life course as a visual and cultural artifact. The article expands critical and interpretive scholarship on the diversity of the global life course by centering the life-stories, interpersonal meaning and existential concerns of transnationally mobile diasporic Jamaican/Caribbean older adults. More so, it illustrates both the promise and utility of interpretive approaches in transnational aging research.