Food Parcels in International Migration: Intimate Connections

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Sending, Bringing, Consuming and Researching Food Parcels (Diana Mata-Codesal, Maria Abranches)....Pages 1-21 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Food as a Matter of Being: Experiential Continuity in Transnational Lives (Maja Povrzanović Frykman)....Pages 25-46 Thank You for the Cured Meat, but Is It Grass-Fed? Contested Meanings of Food Parcels in a New Nutrition Transition (Raquel Ajates Gonzalez)....Pages 47-70 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 When Objects Speak Louder Than Words: Food, Intimacy and Power in the Contemporary Transnational Filipino Household (Clement C. Camposano)....Pages 73-93 A Hard Look at the Balikbayan Box: The Philippine Diaspora’s Exported Hospitality (Karina Hof)....Pages 95-116 Spaghetti with Ajvar: An Ethnography of Migration, Gender, Learning and Change (Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska)....Pages 117-139 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 West African Plants and Prayers in the Netherlands: Nourishment Through Visible and Invisible Substances (Amber Gemmeke)....Pages 143-167 Inkumenda di téra: The Informal Circulation of Cabo Verdean Food Products (Tiago Silveiro de Oliveira)....Pages 169-190 From Ingredient to Dish: The Role of Supply in the Culinary Practices of Mexican Migrants in the United States (F. Xavier Medina, José A. Vázquez-Medina)....Pages 191-210 Back Matter ....Pages 211-223