ABSTRACT

This chapter considers the significance of food and belonging for a group of migrant women in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand. It is divided into four sections. In the first section we engage with the works of an Australian feminist philosopher Elspeth Probyn, who uses the notion of alimentary assemblages' to think about how bodies, places, and food intermingle. Second, we offer an outline of how we ate our way through the research. In the third section of the chapter, draw on data to illustrate what migrants' bodies do and become when they ingest Kiwi' food traditions, that themselves reflect rhizomatic geographies of migration from the United Kingdom. In the fourth section the unpalatable' we recount stories of racism, highlighting the subtle ways in which some of the participants and their families are marginalized. Finally, the chapter conclude that the figuration of food, bodies, spaces, cultures, and traditions happens amongst and across different migrant and ethnic groups on a daily basis.