The essay focuses on cooking practices and distribution of food in two reception centres for refugees and asylum seekers in Rome, Italy, in the context of a phenomenon that currently affects several European cities: the flow of people fleeing conflicts in their homeland and crossing Balkan and Mediterranean routes to seek asylum.The following questions are at the core of this comparative study: what is the sense of food for donors? How are the value systems of operators and activists expressed? In what ways do the food aid models of the two reception centres diverge?

Food and Refugees in Rome. Humanitarian Practices or Agency Response?

Donatella,Schmidt;Giovanna,Palutan
2020

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The essay focuses on cooking practices and distribution of food in two reception centres for refugees and asylum seekers in Rome, Italy, in the context of a phenomenon that currently affects several European cities: the flow of people fleeing conflicts in their homeland and crossing Balkan and Mediterranean routes to seek asylum.The following questions are at the core of this comparative study: what is the sense of food for donors? How are the value systems of operators and activists expressed? In what ways do the food aid models of the two reception centres diverge?
2020
Food Identities at Home and on the Move Explorations at the Intersection of Food, Belonging and Dwelling
9781350122338
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