Urban migrant women's everyday food insecurity coping strategies foster alternative urban imaginaries of a more democratic food system

《Urban migrant women's everyday food insecurity coping strategies foster alternative urban imaginaries of a more democratic food system》

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关键字: Migrants; food security; food sovereignty; Colombia; Washington; DC; SOVEREIGNTY; ECONOMY; POWER; GEOGRAPHIES; CITIZENSHIP; WASHINGTON; DIFFERENCE; RESISTANCE; STRUGGLES; DIVERSITY

作者单位: [Hammelman, Colleen] Temple Univ, Dept Geog & Urban Studies, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA. [Hammelman, Colleen] Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Geog & Earth Sci, 355 McEniry,9201 Univ City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28229 USA. Hammelman, C (reprint author), Temple Univ, Dept Geog & Urban Studies, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA.; Hammelman, C (reprint author), Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Geog & Earth Sci, 355 McEniry,9201 Univ City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28229 USA. E-Mail: Colleen.hammelman@uncc.edu

摘要: Urban migrant women worldwide utilize a creative combination of food insecurity coping strategies to procure food for themselves and their families. Using in-depth interviews with 72 migrant women in Medellin, Colombia, and Washington, DC, this paper argues that in low-income urban communities these everyday strategies can further their demands for autonomy in determining what foods they produce and consume. Relying on feminist geography and food sovereignty literature, this research explores how migrant women living in poverty rely on informal networks for growing and sharing food, seek out organic, fresh foods, and utilize independent survival strategies to counter exclusionary rhetoric and a food system they view as unhealthy. In doing so, they devise alternative urban imaginaries of a more democratic food system. This research contributes a more nuanced understanding of the food insecurity experiences of urban migrant women.