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

Bielenin-Lenczowska, Karolina

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“…It becomes crucial for the keeping of family intimacy and relatedness, especially when migrants are mothers, daughters, and sisters, i.e. family members of whom care work at home is expected (Aguilar 2009;Belasco 2008;Camposano 2018;DeVault 1991). However, remittances and packages are also a tool for controlling and infl uencing the consumption of the family.…”

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“…Today new technologies allow migrants to stay in touch with the home town or village and to witness and control the daily consumption of food in their families: with the use of an internet camera or social networking sites they can take part in family meals, both everyday and festive, see what products are being bought, and instruct family members on their diet. This possibility of being in a way present in both places is crucial for maintaining kinship ties through commensality (Carsten 2004;Belasco 2008). The power of skype face-to-face conversations is hard to miss: different from the bodily presence, it is still a very meaningful way of communicating at a distance.…”

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2018

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This article explores caring through feeding as an important aspect of transnational family life, and analyzes the practices connected to sending food products home, supervising what the family eats, and changing consumption patterns. It focuses on Filipino migrants to the United States who maintain transnational ties with their families. With a history of colonial encounter, the United States has been a popular migration destination, and has also strongly infl uenced food consumption.The study shows the ways in which packages from abroad (balikbayan boxes) express love and care, and how they allow migrants to control food consumption of the family in the country of origin. By looking at the goods the immigrants put in the packages, and the way these are received, it is possible to uncover the dynamics of love, care, and intimacy in transnational families, which often translate into power, tensions, and control among family-members. The article analyses how food products sent in the packages work, bringing with them new ideas and practices, creating imaginaries of migration, and building the social prestige of the immigrant. Using the concept of "social remittances", the article also shows the changing patterns of food consumption in the Philippines.

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2018

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“…The purity and sweetness of Saharanpur's water, and other dietary preferences, were often emphasised by migrants, and this acted as an ethnic marker that created an elastic connection to home (cf. Rabikowska 2010;Hage 2010;Bielenin-Lenczowska 2018;Ratnam 2018). On the road, too, collectivised forms of migration allowed craftworkers to re-create an affective sense of 'home' through shared cooking and the reproduction of Saharanpur ka khana (Saharanpur food) (cf.…”

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Networks, Labour and Migration Among Indian Muslim Artisans

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2019

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List of figures vii List of tables ix Acknowledgements x 1. Marginalisation, connectedness and Indian Muslim artisans: an introduction 1 2. A brief history of Indian Muslim artisans 22 3. The Indian craft supply chain: money, commodities and intimacy 49 4. Muslim women and craft production in India: gender, labour and space 78 5. Apprenticeship and labour amongst Indian Muslim artisans 6. Neoliberalism and Islamic reform among Indian Muslim artisans: affect and self-making 7. Friendship, urban space, labour and craftwork in India 8. Internal migration in India: imaginaries, subjectivities and precarity 9. Labour migration between India and the Gulf: regimes, imaginaries and continuities vi CONTENTS 10. Marginalisation and connectedness: a conclusion Glossary of Hindi, Urdu and Arabic terms

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

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