Migration is a powerful driver of change in food systems globally. We are exploring how human mobility reshapes food environments including cultural food practices, access to nutrition, and patterns of consumption. Our work examines both the vulnerabilities and innovations that emerge when people move across, adapt to, and create emerging food systems.
In contexts of transnational migration, through the case of displacement from Myanmar, we investigate how experiences of displacement remake migrants’ relationships to food. Our work examines the ways that migrant communities practices of food production and consumption change across subsistence and wage-labor economies. Using oral histories, in-depth interviews, and object-centered interviews, we also trace that ways that cultural practices, identities, and relationships to place are preserved through food.
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Fiorella Research Group 