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This qualitative study investigates an understudied area within the context of the role of food in migrant settlement, focusing on forced migrants'1 adaptation to the London urban food industry through engagement in cookery classes, targeted to support migrant/refugee communities in their entrepreneurship journeys. Through analysis of interviews with 10 migrants and ethnographic observations of 7 cookery classes, this research examines how professional cooking and being part of a food network can be catalysts for entrepreneurial activities and provide pathways to independence. The findings reveal that migrants' work experience in cookery classes and training enable them to develop strong leadership skills and exercise micro-power practices challenging negative stereotypes such as migrants-as-vulnerable. This research contributes to the literature by enhancing understanding of a unique power dynamic in the context of food organizations and training programs that empower forced migrants in their entrepreneurial journey in the London food community.
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Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of food and nutrition in the broadest sense. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of food and nutrition -- ecological, biological, and cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition strives to become a forum for disseminating scholarly information on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health, but also to promote and contest social and cultural identity. The content scope is thus wide -- articles may focus on the relationship between food and nutrition, food taboos and preferences, ecology and political economy of food, the evolution of human nutrition, changes in food habits, food technology and marketing, food and identity, and food sustainability. Additionally, articles focusing on the application of theories and methods to address contemporary food and nutrition problems are encouraged. Questions of the relationship between food/nutrition and culture are as germane to the journal as analyses of the interactions among nutrition and environment, infection and human health.
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