This article explores how food memories contribute to the construction of migrant identities and cultural practices. Often times migrant communities seek to create a home away from home through cooking, sharing, and consuming ethnic food. The article argues that food is central to the ways migrants identify themselves both in an individual and collective way. This source will provide background information on food, memory, and identity while giving us specific examples from the Cameroonian community in Cape Town, South Africa.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26549625?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
During the constant movement and relocation immigrants experience, food has the ability to give people a sense of place or belonging. From production, preparation, or consumption individuals and groups craft their identities around these different goods and lifestyles. This article will help us to understand how others have used food to find their sense of belonging while constantly moving. This source can also give us some ideas on the types of interview questions we would like to ask people.
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