Moving Meals and Migrating Mothers: Culinary Cultures, Diasporic Dishes and Familial Foodways

Moving Meals and Migrating Mothers: Culinary cultures, diasporic dishes and familial foodways explores the complex interplay between the important global issues of food, families and migration. We have an introduction and twelve additional chapters which we have organised into three parts: Part I Moving Meals, Markets and Migrant Mothers; Part II Migrating Mothers Performing Identity through Moving Meals; Part III Meanings and Experiences of Migrant Maternal Meals. Although these parts are not mutually exclusive, they are meant to emphasize socio-cultural and economic considerations of migration (Part I), the food itself (Part II) and families (Part III). We have a wide geographic representation, including Europe (Ireland and France), the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Korea. In addition, we have contributors from all stages of career, including full professors, as well recent doctoral graduates. Overall the contributions are interdisciplinary, and therefore use a variety of methodologies, although most make use of traditional social sciences methods, including interviews and ethnographic observations.

Dr. Tanya M. Cassidy is International Convener for the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health (SNPCH) at Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland. She is also a Fulbright-HRB (Irish Health Research Board) Health Impact scholar, an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Award (MSCA) fellow, a Cochrane Fellow, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). She is the author of several publications including What’s Cooking Mom: Narratives about food and families (Demeter, 2015) and Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways From Maternal Perspectives (Demeter, 2016). Dr. Abdullahi Osman El-Tom, Emeritus Fellow at Maynooth, recently retired as Head of the Department of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is the author of several publications and previously co-edited with Tanya the well-received Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural contexts and confrontations (Bloomsbury, 2015).