Considering the role of integration experiences in shaping immigrants’ post-migration food choices and eating practices

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI:10.1111/cars.12456

Eugena Kwon

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Abstract

This article draws on data collected from qualitative interviews with 38 recent immigrants in two Ontario cities to provide an overview of recent immigrants’ general dietary acculturation experiences. With insights from both Cockerham's health lifestyle theory and Berry's acculturation model, this article explores how structural inequalities related to integration and settlement may shape recent immigrants’ post-migration food choices and eating practices. The results of this study revealed that immigrants from non-Western countries experienced greater challenges in healthy eating. Findings are in line with Cockerham's health lifestyle theory: immigrants’ post-migration food choices and dietary acculturation strategies were not only bounded by socioeconomic status and cultural differences but were also shaped by various structural inequalities, especially those related to systematic barriers during the integration and settlement process. Overall, this paper provides a more holistic understanding of the multifaceted nature of immigrants’ dietary acculturation experiences.

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考虑整合经验在塑造移民后的食物选择和饮食习惯中的作用。

本文利用对安大略省两个城市38名新移民的定性访谈收集的数据，对新移民的一般饮食文化适应经历进行了概述。本文从Cockerham的健康生活方式理论和Berry的文化适应模型中深入探讨了与融合和定居相关的结构性不平等如何影响新移民在移民后的食物选择和饮食习惯。这项研究的结果表明，来自非西方国家的移民在健康饮食方面遇到了更大的挑战。研究结果与科克勒姆的健康生活方式理论一致：移民在移民后的食物选择和饮食文化适应策略不仅受到社会经济地位和文化差异的限制，还受到各种结构性不平等的影响，尤其是与融合和定居过程中的系统性障碍有关的不平等。总的来说，本文对移民饮食文化适应经历的多方面性质提供了更全面的理解。

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Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： The Canadian Review of Sociology/ Revue canadienne de sociologie is the journal of the Canadian Sociological Association/La Société canadienne de sociologie. The CRS/RCS is committed to the dissemination of innovative ideas and research findings that are at the core of the discipline. The CRS/RCS publishes both theoretical and empirical work that reflects a wide range of methodological approaches. It is essential reading for those interested in sociological research in Canada and abroad.