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In case you are interested:
The call for papers for the panel **Food parcels: intimate connexions in
transnational migration** in the upcoming EASA2014 conference (Tallinn,
31st July - 3rd August 2014) is now open, closing on 27th February.
To propose a paper and/or contact the convenors, follow the link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2962
Convenors:
Diana Mata-Codesal (University of Deusto)
Maria Abranches (University of Sussex)
This panel aims to explore food circuits in relation to migration with a
bottom-up approach, worldwide and in a historical perspective. Food parcels
being sent and received by migrants worldwide maintain, reinforce and in
some cases even create new transnational interconnections. In the context
of migration, food circuits are a powerful sensuous link within
transnational families and groups. Collaboration, intimacy and connection
are essential processes at play in transnational migration. Sharing,
cooking or eating food from home are intimate acts which acquire extra
connotations in situations of physical separation. While living separate
daily lives, in many cases migrants and their families also forge lasting
and meaningful transnational bonds. The practices of preparing, sending,
consuming, selling, sharing or giving away food are important transnational
connections, reminders of mutual obligations, as well as tokens of love.
The food parcels that circulate in many migratory systems - between
contiguous countries, within countries and even spanning continents -
enable us to raise issues of transnational belonging, family-making
processes, or sensuous re-creations of home, among others. Alongside
maintaining connections, these food circuits may also generate new
relationships.
This panel seeks to show how pervasive practices of sending and receiving
food within transnational families are. At the same time the panel also
aims to show their diversity in time and space, regarding issues like the
meanings attached to the food parcels, the range of sending practices -
i.e. the nature of the sending channels - or the transformations suffered
by these culturally loaded foodstuffs in their journeys.
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