Homemaking through food practices. Asylum seekers and social workers’ voices from the Cuneo and Lecco provinces

Journal title MONDI MIGRANTI
Author/s Gaia Cottino, Silvia Luraschi
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/2
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 105-117 File size 183 KB
DOI 10.3280/MM2021-002006
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Food influences the ways through which migrants relate to space and make home. Through the structuring of a culinary competence, they make sense of new situa-tions, between memories and adjustments to new food grammars. The hereby ar-ticle weaves together the voices of asylum seekers, refugees, and social workers, offering an interdisciplinary discussion of the food practices within a number of extraordinary reception centers (CAS) and former-SPRAR apartments within the alpine and pre-alpine space of the Cuneo valleys and the Lecco province. Such discussion aims at analyzing the extent to which diverse spaces generate different uses of the "food suitcase" and the extent to which the newcomers agentively elaborate creative solutions to homemaking and social interaction.

Keywords: asylum seekers; food; proximity relationships; homemaking; food grammar; agency.

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Gaia Cottino, Silvia Luraschi, Farsi casa attraverso le pratiche alimentari. Voci di richiedenti asilo, operatori e operatrici nelle province di Cuneo e Lecco in "MONDI MIGRANTI" 2/2021, pp 105-117, DOI: 10.3280/MM2021-002006