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- Title
'Back There We Had Nothing to Eat': The Case of Transnational Food Insecurity.
- Authors
Carney, Megan A.
- Abstract
This article discusses migrant food insecurity in the United States from the perspective of Mexican and Central American migrant women. Many describe migrating because they had nothing to eat in their countries of origin. Migration is thus framed as a necessary strategy for overcoming food insecurity. I argue that these women's perspectives are unique in the migration literature because food security comprises a gendered labour from which men are frequently spared. Unfortunately, food insecurity still prevails in these women's households in the US. Assuming a 'double-duty' workday of earning wages and overseeing care within households, these women experience the added burden of ensuring food security of households 'back there.' Thus, I argue that the food practices of Mexican and Central American migrant women provide a unique lens through which to understand the increased feminization of transnational migration from Latin America to other regions of the world.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FOOD security; WOMEN migrant labor; MIGRANT labor; SERVICES for migrant labor; PRECARITY
- Publication
International Migration, 2017, Vol 55, Issue 4, p64
- ISSN
0020-7985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/imig.12293