From Pupusas to Chimichangas: Exploring the Ways in which Food Contributes to the Creation of a Pan-Latino Identity

<p>Framed through the standardizations of food and generalizations of people, this research explores the shifting ingredients of migrant identities and the ethnic foodways carried with them as they cross the border into the United States. Using ethnographic observational fieldwork, content analysis of menus, and semi-structured interviews with restaurant staff and migrant workers, this study examines the transnational narratives of the day laborer population and their <em>deterritorialized</em> food culture in post-Katrina New Orleans. Further, this research explores this flow of people and culture through a globalization lens in order to achieve a more holistic understanding of the “migrant experience” and how Latinos are both defined and self-defined within an increasingly global context.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Planning and Urban Studies

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Fouts, Sarah B

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. David Beriss
• Dr. Renia Ehrenfeucht
• Dr. Steve Striffler

• immigration
• food
• Latinos
• globalization
• citizenship
• New Orleans
• Social and Cultural Anthropology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1437

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2484