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VIRTUAL EVENT: Joining the dots: food, family and migration research
19 January 2021, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
In this webinar, Dr Ivana Bajić-Hajduković will highlight the significance of researching transnational families in the context of both sending and destination countries, and the role that food plays in this process.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Jenny Woodman, Thomas Coram Research Unit
Food, family and migration are often studied in social science as separate disciplines, with varying degrees of overlapping interest.
Disciplinary boundaries, often reinforced with institutional and financial restrictions, hinder a holistic view of these inseparable social phenomena.
Traditionally, migrant communities were studied from the perspective of host societies and the impact these communities have in destination countries, including the role of food they bring with them.
Dr Bajić-Hajduković argues that migration impacts sending societies as much, possibly even more, than the host societies.
Food plays a role in keeping stability not only amongst the migrant communities in the host societies, but more so among their family left behind.
This talk will feature reflections from Dr Bajić-Hajduković’s latest book, ‘Can You Run Away From Sorrow? Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade’.
TCRU seminar series
The Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) hosts a weekly seminar series, where invited speakers present work of relevance to the research interests of the unit.
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About the Speaker
Dr Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic
Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University London
Ivana earned a PhD in Social Anthropology from UCL (2008). Past research and publications focused on migration, material culture, family and remittances.
Since 2014, Ivana has been teaching and writing about food. Her current research is a comparative study of cheese production in London and the Italian Alps.