Date of Award
Spring 5-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Urban Studies
Department
Planning and Urban Studies
Major Professor
Dr. David Beriss
Second Advisor
Dr. Renia Ehrenfeucht
Third Advisor
Dr. Steve Striffler
Abstract
Framed through the standardizations of food and generalizations of people, this research explores the shifting ingredients of migrant identities and the ethnic foodways carried with them as they cross the border into the United States. Using ethnographic observational fieldwork, content analysis of menus, and semi-structured interviews with restaurant staff and migrant workers, this study examines the transnational narratives of the day laborer population and their deterritorialized food culture in post-Katrina New Orleans. Further, this research explores this flow of people and culture through a globalization lens in order to achieve a more holistic understanding of the “migrant experience” and how Latinos are both defined and self-defined within an increasingly global context.
Recommended Citation
Fouts, Sarah B., "From Pupusas to Chimichangas: Exploring the Ways in which Food Contributes to the Creation of a Pan-Latino Identity" (2012). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1437.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1437
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