Trajectories, Food Choices and Dietary Acculturation of Vulnerable Migrants in Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID14721246
AuthorsLivia Martins (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Lívia do Vale Martins (0000-0003-4645-9055, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, corresponding author), Claudia Ridel Juzwiak (0000-0003-1101-0063, Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Claudia Juzwiak (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Teressa Juzwiak (Independent Researcher, Hague, Netherlands)
Year2022
Volume61
Issue5
Pages624-637
Publication date2022-09-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEcology of Food and Nutrition (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0367-0244 • E-ISSN: 1543-5237
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03670244.2022.2116432
PMID36000207
OpenAlexW4293214814
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

Migrants in situations of socioeconomic vulnerability face many hardships regarding their eating practices. The aim of this study was to identify how migratory trajectories affect their food choices and the processes of dietary acculturation they experience. This is a qualitative study, conducted through the episodic narrative method, based on interviews of eight migrants. The Food Choice Process Model was adopted as the theoretical framework for the Content Analysis. Integration, assimilation, and separation were identified as acculturation processes and it was concluded that the financial situation was what most affected migrants' food choices in the early stages of life in Brazil

Acculturation · Affect (linguistics · Assimilation (phonology · Environmental health · Food choice · Geography · Immigration · Narrative · Psychological resilience · Qualitative research · Social science · Social vulnerability · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Demography · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices · Medicine · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Psychology · Social Psychology