From Ingredient to Dish: The Role of Supply in the Culinary Practices of Mexican Migrants in the United States

This chapter explores three models of supply and procurement of Mexican food in the United States. The first one explains the transportation of food stuffs by migrants themselves or other subjects who are socially linked to them. The second model illumina

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Edited by

DIANA MATA-CODESAL and MARIA ABRANCHES

Anthropology, Change, and Development Series editors Laura Camfield University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom Catherine Locke Progress in Development Studies Development Studies Institute, LSE London, United Kingdom Lan Anh Hoang School of Social and Political Sciences University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

Mainstream development studies have tended to neglect important aspects of experience in developing countries that fall outside the conventional preserve of development intervention. These neglected phenomena include consumption, modernity, and mobility and ambivalent experiences such as uncertainty, mistrust, jealousy, envy, love, emotion, hope, religious and spiritual belief, personhood and other experiences throughout the lifecourse. They have most closely been addressed through critical ethnography in the context of contemporary developing societies. We invite volumes that focus on the value of ethnography of these contemporary experiences of development (as change), not only to address these neglected phenomena, but also to enrich social science thinking about development. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14768

Diana Mata-Codesal  •  Maria Abranches Editors

Food Parcels in International Migration Intimate Connections

Editors Diana Mata-Codesal Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain

Maria Abranches University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom

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