Children's Geographies
Volume 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 233-245

Food and its meaning for asylum seeking children and young people in foster care (Article)

Kohli R.K.S. , Connolly H. , Warman A.
  • a Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Bedfordshire, Park Square, Luton LU1 3JU, United Kingdom
  • b Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Bedfordshire, Park Square, Luton LU1 3JU, United Kingdom
  • c Who Cares Trust, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

There is little in the existing literature in refugee studies, foster care and the anthropology of food about the ways refugee and asylum seeking children regard food. This piece reports on two initiatives that delineate ways children seeking asylum and their carers understand food. The first is a research study examining unaccompanied asylum seeking children's perception of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, within which they focus on food and survival after arrival in the UK. The second, based on interviews with foster carers, is a practice orientated enquiry about food and its meaning in foster care. The findings suggest that food is related to many aspects of finding sanctuary, negotiating belonging within the foster family, and can powerfully evoke being at 'home' in a new land. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

Author Keywords

Children's rights Asylum seeking children foster care Food

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79957899553&doi=10.1080%2f14733285.2010.494862&partnerID=40&md5=ea4aa92eb9ec64f79802269c919685bc
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2010.494862
ISSN: 14733285
Cited by: 20
Original Language: English