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Food in the Migrant Experience (Paperback)
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Food in the Migrant Experience (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Migration and Diaspora
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At its most basic, food is vital to our survival there can be no
form of life without it. But in economically developed and thriving
societies there is more to eating and drinking than just surviving.
As the centuries have passed, the marketing, preparation and
presentation of food has become an intrinsic part of the modern
consumer society. Food operates in the religious sphere too, with
consumption and abstinence playing their part in religious ritual
whilst methods of animal slaughter have moved into the political,
as well as the religious arena. Food not only sustains the migrant
on both the real and metaphorical journey from home to elsewhere,
it also provides a bridge between the familiar and the unfamiliar.
Food acts as a catalyst for cultural fusion and excitement but it
can also endanger: change of diet all too frequently creating as
many health problems as it resolves. Its multi-disciplinary nature
enables Food in the Migrant Experience to address all the above
issues in chapters written by leading academics in the fields of
migration, economics, nutrition, medicine and history. As we
continue to explore the minutiae of the immigrant experience, this
book will be essential reading to all those engaged in the study of
migration.
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