Unpacking the balikbayan box. Long-distance care through feeding and food consumption in the Philippines

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24425/122486" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.24425/122486</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24425/122486" target="_blank" >10.24425/122486</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unpacking the balikbayan box. Long-distance care through feeding and food consumption in the Philippines

Original language description

This article explores caring through feeding as an important aspect of transnational family life, and analyzes the practices connected to sending food products home, supervising what the family eats, and changing consumption patterns. It focuses on Filipino migrants to the United States who maintain transnational ties with their families. With a history of colonial encounter, the United States has been a popular migration destination, and has also strongly infl uenced food consumption. The study shows the ways in which packages from abroad (balikbayan boxes) express love and care, and how they allow migrants to control food consumption of the family in the country of origin. By looking at the goods the immigrants put in the packages, and the way these are received, it is possible to uncover the dynamics of love, care, and intimacy in transnational families, which often translate into power, tensions, and control among family-members. The article analyses how food products sent in the packages work, bringing with them new ideas and practices, creating imaginaries of migration, and building the social prestige of the immigrant. Using the concept of „social remittances“, the article also shows the changing patterns of food consumption in the Philippines.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia Socjologiczne

ISSN

0039-3371

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

231

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

131-148

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058820305