The role of the urban food environment, time use, and language in newcomers' adaptation and wellbeing: a comparative study of South American migrants in Toronto and Santiago de Chile
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Keywords: Immigrant geographies, Food geographies, Food behaviours, Dietary acculturation
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Marianne Lahaie Luna, University of Toronto
Michael Widener, University of Toronto
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Due to a plethora of unfortunate economic, social, and political issues, an influx of individuals from Latin America have been migrating to both Canada and Chile in the last decade. To our knowledge, there is a dearth in the literature with regards to the understanding of social spatial-factors, such as time use, language, and the built environment and their impacts on immigrants’ access to sufficient, healthy, and culturally appropriate foods. Understanding changes in food behaviours post-migration is imperative, given that the literature has linked dietary acculturation to deteriorating health outcomes of migrants. The objectives of this research are twofold: 1) understand what barriers to healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate food are common to Spanish-speaking immigrants in Toronto and Santiago, and what barriers are unique to each city and 2) analyze how urban environments and local immigrant supports of the two study cities enable access to food. In the presentation we will expand upon the objectives of this project, along with the methodologies and data that we will use to conduct a comparative analysis of food behaviours of Latin American immigrants in both Toronto, Canada, and Santiago, Chile.
The role of the urban food environment, time use, and language in newcomers' adaptation and wellbeing: a comparative study of South American migrants in Toronto and Santiago de Chile
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