CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Bacarra, Divine Joy Satur |
|---|---|
| Title | Food Practices of Filipina Migrant Women Married to Polish Men and Their Sense of Identity |
| Summary | This study of 12 migrant women in married to Polish men wish to explore on the complex ways that they make sense of their identity after migration which can be examined through their food practices. As there are limited literature on Filipinas in Poland, this study explores on their distinct experience in food making through which existing theories on food, migration and identity can be affirmed and examined. The thesis investigates on the role of food in explaining Filipino women's connection to the home through nostalgia and how the women's various categorical positions of gender, race, age, employment and marital status shape their food making and their identity. The study argues that through food, Filipino migrant women assert their strong ties to the Philippines and recognize changes in identity constructions after migration to Poland, which put the women in ambivalent positions and establish multiple notions of who they are. Exploring on the claims of Beagan and Chapman, in this study of Filipina migrant women, food acts as a way determine the multiple positioning of Filipina migrants and how these categories shape and is being shaped by the ways they prepare, consume and give meanings to their food. |
| Supervisor | Lukic, Jasmina |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/bacarra_divine.pdf |
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