Eating abroad, remembering (at) home
The relationship migrants forge with food is not straightforward. Along with migrants' personal or group features (e.g. gender, generation, age, etc.), specific origin and residence characteristics encourage or hinder specific practices in their new places of residency. Such descriptors also im...
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Anthropology of food
2010
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | The relationship migrants forge with food is not straightforward. Along with migrants' personal or group features (e.g. gender, generation, age, etc.), specific origin and residence characteristics encourage or hinder specific practices in their new places of residency. Such descriptors also imbue migrants' food practices with different meanings. Using data from Ecuadorian migration to Europe and the US I sketch in this paper three different ways in which food plays out in contexts of migrancy; the case of New York city where Ecuadorian migrants can easily get into an 'already-present home from home' creating and sustaining a transnational food sphere; London where there are very few Ecuadorian migrants but they can draw onto other transnational communities' food resources; and the Spanish Northern town of Santander1 where there is neither a strong Ecuadorian community nor other relevant ethnic communities. |
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