Taste experience in migration : feelings of belonging and identities of children and their family in asylum-seeking situation in the Province of Liege (Belgium)

  • Vivier, Mélanie
Publication date
July 2020

Abstract

My doctoral research questions the role and place of food in the daily life of children and their family in asylum-seeking situation. Based on ongoing fieldwork at a Red Cross reception center and at an elementary school in the Province of Liège (Belgium), this paper aims to describe and analyze the food sensitive experiences of families and more particularly of children, through transformation or, on the contrary, the upholding of taste habits in a migratory context. The - positive or negative - taste experience has a core place in the discourses on food in the field. Coming from various countries, socialized where references are quite different from those existing in the Belgian society, families in asylum-seeking situation (adults and c...

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