The Politics of Food and Hospitality: How Syrian Refugees in Belgium Create a Home in Hostile Environments

摘要: While eating practices fulfil a central role in expressing collective identities, they potentially turn into sites of contention when individuals are forced to migrate. By drawing upon semi-structured interviews and informal observations with Syrian refugees Belgium, this article describes the politics food hospitality through which wider socio-political subjectivities renegotiated. More precisely, I argue that three sets meanings crucial understand symbolic importance hospitality, conditions under it feeds series micro-political struggles: (i) power-infused relations between hosting being hosted or giving receiving; (ii) sense individual autonomy dignity; (iii) revitalization selves. putting these practice, create intimate bubbles homeliness often subversive hostile environment find themselves.