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Moving Meals and Migrating Mothers

Culinary Cultures, Diasporic Dishes and Familial Foodways

Tanya M Cassidy editor Abdullahi Osman El-Tom editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Demeter Press

Published:15th Dec '21

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Moving Meals and Migrating Mothers: Culinary cultures, diasporic dishes and familial foodways explores the complex interplay between the important global issues of food, families and migration. We have an introduction and twelve additional chapters which we have organised into three parts: Part I Moving Meals, Markets and Migrant Mothers; Part II Migrating Mothers Performing Identity through Moving Meals; Part III Meanings and Experiences of Migrant Maternal Meals. Although these parts are not mutually exclusive, they are meant to emphasize socio-cultural and economic considerations of migration (Part I), the food itself (Part II) and families (Part III). We have a wide geographic representation, including Europe (Ireland and France), the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Korea. In addition, we have contributors from all stages of career, including full professors, as well recent doctoral graduates. Overall the contributions are interdisciplinary, and therefore use a variety of methodologies, although most make use of traditional social sciences methods, including interviews and ethnographic observations.

This volume builds on the important idea that ethnic cultural practices clash with the mainstream in situations of migration by exploring themes of nutrition, religion, survival, resistance, autonomy, patriarchy and biomedical hegemony, among others. Particularly timely is the research pertaining to mothers navigating the challenges of combining nutrition with cultural norms leading to the conclusion that the Westernization of local diets has not only led to the consumption of fewer nutrients but also to the devaluation of cultural practices, for which women are often blamed. A highly engaging read that portrays food as a sight of reproduction and empowerment for migrant women, this book is truly significant to women’s studies, anthropologists, and transnational feminist migration scholars. - Dr. Anna Kuroczycka Schultes, immigration scholar, co-editor of The Migrant Maternal: Birthing New Lives Abroad

ISBN: 9781772583311

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280 pages