Food Parcels in International Migration: Intimate Connections - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319820885 ISBN 13 : 9783319820880

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319820885
• ISBN 13: 9783319820880
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Mata-Codesal Diana, Abranches Maria
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