Metropolitics

Taste of Home: A Sociocultural Exploration of Food Habits and Health Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in New York City

Fatema Kamal — 2018-05-22T05:00:00Z

Resettlement in an entirely different country may have drastic consequences for an individual's health. This is particularly true among immigrants to the US from South Asia; people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives experience particularly severe obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes post-migration. Sociologist Fatema Kamal investigates the nutritional practices of Bangladeshi adults living in New York City, exploring the influence of cultural

- From the Field / immigration, food, New York, migration, Queens, identity, Bronx, Bangladeshi, nutrition, ethnic identity

Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France

Jean Beaman — 2017-05-31T15:28:53Z

As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western countries have become highly nationalistic, with debates surrounding border control and citizenship often dominating political conversation. But it's not just newcomers who have raised these discussions. Based on her forthcoming book, this piece by Jean Beaman shows how second-generation immigrants from North Africa in France, who are legally French citizens, get treated as outsiders and

- From the Field / France, immigration, banlieue, Île-de-France, ethnicity, Paris region, racism, Paris, suburbs, discrimination, migration, race, citizenship, identity, North Africans, Maghrebi, second generation, marginalization, citizen outsiders, cultural citizenship, nationality

Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia

Alain Cottereau & translated by Oliver Waine — 2016-10-11T05:00:00Z

In Europe, the relationship that migrants originating from the Arab Muslim world – whether first- or second-generation – maintain with Islam is both a little-explored subject and a source of confused concern. An ethnographic study of an Andalusian family conducted by Alain Cottereau and Mokhtar Marzok sheds light on the different ways in which people relate to religion, and calls into question what is often presumed to be a binary opposition between religiousness and a return to tradition on the

- From the Field / gender, Spain, ethnography, religion, migration, citizenship, community, Islam, Muslim, Andalusia, family, identity, belonging, male–female relations, domestic life