A Culinary Quest: Peruvian Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Home and Belonging
The research is related to my PhD project in Latin American studies and focuses on Peruvian women entrepreneurs on the culinary market in Southern California. It explores how the women negotiate home and belonging through culinary entrepreneurship and adopts an intersectional lens to understand what role intersecting dimensions of identity like gender, race, ethnicity and class play in these processes. I also examine the importance of legal status and business formality, and how these women create homes for themselves, their families and the Peruvian community through their culinary entrepreneurship, as well as how the food-spaces they create are contested sites. I will present preliminary findings from data collected during fieldwork, August 2017-June 2018, based on in-depth interviews as well as participant observation. The discussion will be informed by a new approach to immigrant integration, focusing on migration as a home-making process, moving beyond the two dominant theoretical approaches: assimilation and transnationalism.
Publisert i NOLAN2018: Epochal shifts in current Latin America?, 2018
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