The immigrant-food nexus : borders, labor, and identity in North America / edited by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agyeman, Julian, editor.

Giacalone, Sydney, editor.

Series:

Food, health, and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Food habits.

Ethnic food.

Social conditions.

United States.

Immigrants--Canada--Social conditions.

Ethnic food--Social aspects--United States.

Ethnic food--Social aspects--Canada.

Food habits--United States.

Food habits--Canada.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Canada.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Government policy.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways. This volume considers the intersection of food and immigration at both the macroscale of national policy and the microscale of immigrant foodways--the intimate, daily performances of identity, culture, and community through food.

Contents:

I Borders: Individuals, Communities, and Nations p. 17

1 Criminalization and Militarization: Civic World Making in Arizona's Agricultural Borderlands p. 21 / Kimberley Curtis

2 Slaughterhouse Politics: Struggling for the Future in the Age of Trump p. 41 / Christopher Neubert

3 Contested Ethnic Foodscapes: Survival, Appropriation, and Resistance in Gentrifying Immigrant Neighborhoods p. 59 / Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco

4 Immigrants as Transformers: The Case for Immigrant Food Enterprises and Community Revitalization p. 81 / Maryam Khojasteh

5 Food from Home and Food from Here: Disassembling Locality in Local Food Systems with Refugees and Immigrants in Anchorage, Alaska p. 99 / Sarah D. Huang

II Labor: Fields and Bodies p. 115

6 Labor and the Problem of Herbicide Resistance: How Immigration Policies in the United States and Canada Impact Technological Development in Grain Crops p. 119 / Katherine Dentzman and Samuel C. H. Mindes

7 Labor and Legibility: Mexican immigrant Farmers and Resource Access at the US Department of Agriculture p. 141 / Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Sea Sloat

8 Enterprising Women of Mexican American Farming Families in Southern Appalachia p. 161 / Mary Elizabeth Schmid

9 Gender, Food, and Labor: Feeding Dairy Workers and Bankrolling the Dairy Industry in Upstate New York p. 181 / Fabiola Ortiz Valdez

III Identity Narratives and Identity Politics p. 201

10 The Canadian Dream: Multicultural Agrarian Narratives in Ontario p. 205 / Jillian Linton

11 Planning for Whom? Toward Culturally Inclusive Food Systems in Metro Vancouver p. 225 / Victoria Ostenso and Colin Dring and Hannah Wittman

12 "Here, We Are All Equal": Narratives of Food and Immigration from the Nuevo American South p. 245 / Catarina Passidomo and Sara Wood

13 Boiled Chicken and Pizza: The Making of Transnational Hmong American Foodways p. 261 / Alison Hope Alkon and Kat Vang

14 Recipes for Immigrant Lives: Crossing, Cooking, Cultivating, and Culture at a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen p. 281 / Situational Strangers.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262357555

0262357550

OCLC:

1130240298

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access