The immigrant-food nexus : : borders, labor, and identity in North America / / edited by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone.

• Superior document: Food, health, and the environment
• TeilnehmendeR: Agyeman, Julian,; Giacalone, Sydney,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : The MIT Press,, [2020]
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Food, health, and the environment.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 pages).

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways. This volume considers the intersection of food and immigration at both the macroscale of national policy and the microscale of immigrant food...

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.