Food Parcels in International Migration: Intimate Connections

ISBN-13: 9783319403724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 223 str.

Diana Mata-Codesal; Maria Abranches

Opis

This volume offers an ethnographic look at food sending and receiving practices among migrants in different regional contexts. For migrants and their families separated by migration, food circuits are a powerful and sensuous source of connection, which can help to maintain, reinforce and in some cases even create new transnational connections. The book takes food parcels as a material through with to think about relationships, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns in changing societies, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces. The book also contributes to a sensorial approach to social change by examining migrants and their families' experiences of global connectedness through familiar objects and narratives. By bringing in in-depth ethnographic insights from diverse social and economic contexts, the volumes widens our understanding of development experiences and moves beyond the divide between developing and developed countries; it contributors to our understanding of development by showing how global connections are experienced at a local level. Ethnographic chapters cover different geographic locations and migration routes (in Europe, Africa, America and Asia), as well as different types of migrants, including international students, asylum seekers, low-skilled labour migrants, irregular migrants or family migration.

Spis treści

1. Sending, bringing, consuming and researching food parcels     

Diana Mata-Codesal and Maria Abranches

Food, identity and belonging

 

2. Food as a matter of being: experiential continuity in transnational lives   

Maja Povrzanović Frykman

3. Thank you for the cured meat, but is it grass-fed? Contested meanings of food parcels in a new nutrition transition 

Raquel Ajates Gonzalez

Transnational kinwork  

4. When objects speak louder than words: food, intimacy and power in the contemporary transnational Filipino household                                       

Clement C. Camposano

5. A hard look at the balikbayan box: the Philippine diaspora’s exported hospitality

Karina Hof

6. Spaghetti with ajvar: an ethnography of migration, gender, learning and change                                                           

Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska

The circulation of nourishment and the deterritorialisation of food consumption

7. West African plants and prayers in the Netherlands: nourishment through visible and invisible substances

Amber Gemmeke

8. Inkumenda di téra: the informal circulation of Cabo Verdean food products

Tiago Silveiro de Oliveira

9. From ingredient to dish: the role of su

pply in the culinary practices of Mexican migrants in the United States

F. Xavier Medina and José A. Vázquez-Medina

O autorze

Diana Mata-Codesal is Researcher in the Humanities Department at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. 

Maria Abranches is Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK. 

Blurb

This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces. As the contributors to this volume argue, food and its related practices offer a window through which to examine the reconciliation of people’s localised intimate experiences with globalising forces. Their analyses contribute to an embodied and sensorial approach to social change by examining migrants and their families’ experiences of global connectedness through familiar objects and narratives. By bringing in in-depth ethnographic insights from different social and economic contexts, this book widens the understanding of the lived experiences of mobility and goes beyond the divide between origin and destination countries, therefore contributing to new ways of thinking about migration and transnationalism that take into consideration the materiality of global connections and the way such connections are embodied and experienced at the local level.