Moving Meals and Migrating Mothers

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 Skłodowska 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).

Introduction

PART I
Moving Meals, Markets and Mothers
1. Pasche Guignard, Florence
French Food Rules and French Parenting in North America: An impossible translation?
2. Rodriguez, Maria Elena
From Happy Meals to Celebrity Chefs: Shifting attitudes towards mothers and traditional food in Puerto Rico
3. Pérez, Ramona Lee
Flavors of Domesticity: Routine, alienation, resistance and celebration in home cooking

PART II
Migrating Mothers, Performing Identity through Making Meals
4. Loewen, William, Loewen, Gladys, Shepherd, Sharon
Food without Borders: Adaptive expressions of mothering
5. Ore, Hadas
Traversing the Mythology of the Female Home Cook - Jewish-Israeli Mothers ‘Cooking’ Homes in New Zealand
6. Abram, Dorothy
Symbol and Sel-Roti: The Taste of Return in Womens’ Nepali-Bhutanese-Hindu Refugee Identity and Ritual. Performance

PART III
Meanings and Experiences of Migrant Maternal Meals
7. Chapman, Gwen & Habib, Sandiza
Intersections of Discursive, Social, and Material Contexts of ‘Good Mothering’: Immigrant Mothers’ Experiences with Infant Feeding and Nutrition in Metro Vancouver
8. De Souza, Ruth
Going Without: Migrant Mothers, Food and the Postnatal Ward [in New Zealand Hospitals]
9. Zhou, Qianling, & Haoyue, Chen
Infant Feeding Among Chinese Mothers in Ireland.
10. Vallianatos, Helen
Migration, Mothers, Meals: Immigrant Mothers’ Experiences and Perspectives on Feeding Children