Spaghetti with Ajvar: An Ethnography of Migration, Gender, Learning and Change

Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska
Rok wydania: 
2017
Tytuł książki / czasopisma: 
Food Parcels in International Migrations. Intimate Connections
ISBN: 
978-3-319-40372-4

W książce Food Parcels in International Migrations. Intimate Connections pod redakcją Diany Maty Codesal i Marii Abranches ukazał się artykuł dr hab. Karoliny Bielenin-Lenczowskiej zatytułowany Spaghetti with Ajvar: An Ethnography of Migration, Gender, Learning and Change

Abstrakt

In this chapter, I focus on the changing foodways of Macedonian-speaking Muslims (Torbeshi) in a transnational context. I explore how food practices are used in the development and maintenance of gender and ethnic identities of migrants. I argue that migrants, especially women, actively engage in the new foodscape as they learn new skills and experiment with new tastes. The metaphor of “spaghetti with ajvar” best describes this phenomenon as can reflect the immersion in the cultural and social contexts of both the place of origin (western Macedonia) and the place of settlement (northern Italy). It also shows the mutual influence of these contexts.

Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska, Spaghetti with Ajvar: An ethnography of migration, gender, learning and change, w: Diana Mata Codesal and Maria Abranches (ed.), Food Parcels in International Migrations. Intimate Connections, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 117-139.

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