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The immigrant-food nexus : borders, labor, and identity in North America /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Agyeman, Julian (Editor), Giacalone, Sydney (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
Series:Food, health, and the environment.
Subjects:
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Immigrants > Canada > Social conditions.
Ethnic food > Social aspects > United States.
Ethnic food > Social aspects > Canada.
Food habits > United States.
Food habits > Canada.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.