What is it about?
Food and culinary traditions and rituals are used by migrants to create a bridge between their homeland and the destination country. This article demonstrates the intricate ways this happens and what the implications are for identity and belonging using South African migrants in Australia as a case study.
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Why is it important?
Mass migration of all kinds is a hot topic globally. Therefore, many societies are grappling with how best to foster social cohesion by successfully integrating migrants. This findings from this research show that a balance can be struck between discourses of multiculturalism and assimilation and this model is being enacted in the everyday using food traditions and practices in Australia.
Perspectives
As a migrant to Australia, many of the practices this research explores are phenomena that I first noticed and participated in myself as a new Australian. I feel strongly that we shouldn't neglect the everyday in our quest to find answers about how to live which is why this research focused on food and related practices which are elemental to human experience.
Ms Allegra C Schermuly
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: Food, identity and belonging: a case study of South African-Australians, British Food Journal, October 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/bfj-01-2016-0037.
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