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Food and its meaning for asylum seeking children and young people in foster care

  • Ravi Kohli
    ,
  • Helen Connolly
    ,
  • Andrea Warman
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Abstract

There is little in the existing literature in refugee studies, foster care and the anthropology of food about the ways refugee and asylum seeking children regard food. This piece reports on two initiatives that delineate ways children seeking asylum and their carers understand food. The first is a research study examining unaccompanied asylum seeking children's perception of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, within which they focus on food and survival after arrival in the UK. The second, based on interviews with foster carers, is a practice orientated enquiry about food and its meaning in foster care. The findings suggest that food is related to many aspects of finding sanctuary, negotiating belonging within the foster family, and can powerfully evoke being at ‘home’ in a new land.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 233-245

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Children's Geographies (Volume 8, Issue 3)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2010

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2010

ISSN

1473-3285

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/225528
  • Scopus: 79957899553

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