Criminalization and militarization : civic world-making in Arizona's agricultural borderlands / Kimberly Curtis -- Slaughterhouse politics : struggling for the future in the age of Trump / Christopher Neubert -- Contested ethnic foodscapes : survival, appropriation and resistance in gentrifying immigrant neighborhoods / Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco -- Immigrants as transformers : the case for immigrant food enterprises and community revitalization / Maryam Khojasteh -- Food from home and food from here : disassembling locality in local food systems with refugees and immigrants in Anchorage, Alaska / Sarah Huang -- Labor and the problem of herbicide resistance : how immigration policies in the U.S. and Canada impact technological development in grain crops / Katherine Dentzman and Samuel Mindes -- Labor and legibility : Mexican immigrant farmers and resource access at the United States Department of Agriculture / Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Sea Sloat -- Enterprising women of Mexican-American farming families in Southern Appalachia / Mary Beth Schmid -- Gender, food, and labor : feeding dairy workers and bankrolling the dairy industry in Upstate New York / Fabiola Ortiz Valdez -- The Canadian dream : multicultural agrarian narratives in Ontario / Jillian Linton -- Planning for whom? : towards culturally inclusive food systems in Metro Vancouver / Victoria Ostenso, Colin Dring, and Hannah Wittman -- "Here, we are all equal" : narratives of food and immigration from the Nuevo American South / Catarina Passidomo and Sarah Wood -- Boiled chicken and pizza : the making of transnational Hmong-American foodways / Alison Hope Alkon and Kat Vang -- Recipes for immigrant lives : crossing, cooking, cultivating and culture at a shared-use commercial kitchen / Situational Strangers -- Concluding thoughts / Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone.
Summary:
"This book investigates the intersection of food and immigration in North America through a novel construct: the immigrant-food nexus. To do this, the book's chapters delve into three overarching areas in which immigration and food intersect from the national level down to the daily lived experience of immigrants: Boundaries: Individuals, Communities, and Nations, Labor: Fields and Bodies, and Identity Narratives and Identity Politics. In taking a critical approach towards questions of food, agricultural and immigration policy, the volume's contributors ask: How can the immigrant-food nexus be understood in our current political climate of rising nationalism, and how does an analysis that transcends traditional "micro" or "macro" scales from the nation to the community to the body provide a new way to think about these issues? The contributors synthesize this analysis of "macro" topics within immigration and food with a "micro" analysis of immigrant foodways. Foodways are manifestations and symbols of cultural histories and proclivities. As individuals participate in culturally defined ways of eating, they perform their own identities and memberships in particular groups. How important are foodways as performances, on immigrant lived and daily practices? The concepts defined as "macro" have real, embodied consequences. The concepts defined as "micro" have large-scale, important meanings. The contributors recognize this: their work bridges the scales of the nation, community, and individual bodies to "render visible the political tensions about race, agriculture, immigration, and the future of the nation that simmer in everyday life" (Neubert, Chapter 2). Through critical, multidimensional research, critical food and immigration scholars today find themselves at a generative place to bring fact-based, humanized, and multi-scalar narratives of the immigrant-food nexus to light. The uniqueness of this book lies in the concept of the immigrant-food nexus as a lens for exploring immigration and food in North America. This fulfills a special need: to complicate the binary of macro level policy, and micro level lived experience, showing the intersections between these scales"-- Provided by publisher.
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