“Consuming Diaspora”: A Theoretical Approach to the Relationship between Migration, National Identity and Food Cover Image

“Tüketen diaspora”: Göç, Ulusal Kimlik ve Yemek İlişkisine Teorik Bir Yaklaşım
“Consuming Diaspora”: A Theoretical Approach to the Relationship between Migration, National Identity and Food

Author(s): Özge Çopuroğlu
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Migration; food; national identity; rites of passage; communitas; liminality;

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the general framework of the concept of threshold, which has been put forward that the relationship between food and migration plays a role in the integration and adaptation of immigrant communities to the roof cult of the host country through the food regime and in the consolidation of national identity over time. In this respect, while examining the identity bond that immigrant communities establish with their homeland through food, it aims to theoretically shape the argument that immigrant communities have a threshold position at the stage of their arrival and integration into their host society.The first part of the study is on the relationship between food and migration, through the studies that have come to the fore in the literature; cultural equivalent is summarized. In the last part, the threshold positions of immigrant communities and the possibility of providing a new collective equality within the host society were questioned.

  • Issue Year: 9/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 423-433
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Turkish