The Experience of Food Insecurity Among Immigrants: a Scoping Review

Maynard, Merryn; Dean, Jennifer; Rodriguez, Paulina I.; Sriranganathan, Gobika; Qutub, Mona; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.

doi:10.1007/s12134-018-0613-x

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“…Second, our results suggest that financial insecurity is an important indicator of legal vulnerability. The immigration policy climate threatens the economic security of undocumented immigrants as it limits their work opportunities, exposes them to economic exploitation, and prevents them from meeting their basic needs thereby becoming food insecure (Amuedo-Dorantes et al, 2013;Maynard et al, 2019). These financial challenges are detrimental conditions that hinder undocumented students' ability to fully participate in their academics.…”

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Disrupted Education?: A Latent Profile Analysis of Immigration-Related Distractions and Academic Engagement among Undocumented College Students

Chavarria

Cornejo

Ayón

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Journal of Latinos and Education

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Prior research has established that legal vulnerability disrupts undocumented students educational experiences. Building on this work, we examine the process through which undocumented immigration status may disrupt academic performance through students' behavioral engagement in their coursework. Drawing on a survey of nearly 1,300 undocumented college students in California, we use latent profile analysis to identify student profiles based on their experiences of immigration-related distractions. We then assess the role of self and family demographics on profile membership, and the relationship between immigration-related distraction profiles and students' educational engagement outcomes. We identify five distraction profiles that indicate a wide variation in frequency of immigration-related distractions and suggest that immigration-related distractions result from both students' own and their parents immigration-related issues. These distractions are consequential, as those students who are in more frequently distracted profiles are more likely to report negative behavioral engagement outcomes. Ultimately, we argue that academic distractions and behavioral disengagement are key ways in which legal vulnerability disrupts the academic success of undocumented students.

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Section: Control Variables and Profilesmentioning

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Disrupted Education?: A Latent Profile Analysis of Immigration-Related Distractions and Academic Engagement among Undocumented College Students

Chavarria

Cornejo

Ayón

et al. 2021

Journal of Latinos and Education

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“…Lastly, as this paper focuses on discourses of food multiculturalism, the context of immigrant food insecurity in Toronto and Canada is useful. As immigrant food insecurity continues to be an urgent issue in Canada, a growing body of research focuses on the specific vulnerabilities of racialized immigrant individuals and households in their experience of food insecurity (see Maynard, Dean, Rodriguez, Sriranganathan, Qutub & Kirkpatrick, 2019;Moffat, Mohammed & Newbold, 2018;Koç, Soo & Liu, 2016;Lessa & Rocha, 2012 for more). In PROOF, an annual report of household food insecurity in Canada, Valerie Tarasuk, Andy Mitchell and Naomi Dachner (2016) define household food insecurity as "inadequate or insecure access to food because of financial constraints" (p.2).…”

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“…Consequently, food insecurity is conceptualized as a direct symptom of scarcity and financial instability. Immigrant food insecurity is increasingly becoming an urgent social and public health issue in Canada (Maynard et al, 2019;Tarasuk et al, 2016). In PROOF, new immigrants, defined as those who have been in Canada for less than five years, are found to be more vulnerable to food insecurity as their rate of household food insecurity (15.2%) is significantly higher when compared to that of Canadianborn households (11.8%) (Tarasuk et al, 2016).…”

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Tourism Toronto's "How to eat..." guides: a global city's map to culinary colonialism

Kim¹

2021

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By focusing on Toronto as a “global city” (Sassen, 1991), the main objective of this Major Research Paper is to examine the contradictory relationship between Toronto’s discourse of “food multiculturalism” (Flowers & Swan, 2012) and processes of “culinary colonialism” (Heldke, 2003). This paper will use Tourism Toronto’s “How To Eat...” guides as a case study of Toronto’s discourse of food multiculturalism. Through critical discourse analysis, this paper demonstrates how Toronto’s discourse of food multiculturalism depends on colonial assumptions that commodify its racialized immigrants and diaspora as the Other. Consequently, this paper finds that Toronto’s global city strategy is critically linked to culinary colonialism. Furthermore, this paper conceptually builds on culinary colonialism by emphasizing food adventuring as a performative act of the Other. Within this context, these guides also operate as an intimate map for individual eaters to perform ‘the Other’ through food. Key Words: Global city; Food Multiculturalism; Culinary Colonialism; Performance Theory; Critical Discourse Analysis

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“…Meanwhile, some others concentrated on food insecurity as a global issue among different minority groups within certain geographic locations or phenomena (Weaver, and Hadley, 2009;Kohen, 2014;Riches, 2016;Tarasuk, Dachner, & Mitchell, 2019;WHO, 2015;Maynard et al, 2019).…”

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Food insecurity among newcomer refugees in Canada

Shafique¹

2021

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In Canada, grocery stores and supermarket shelves display a wide variety of food for consumers. However, newcomer refugees face different challenges in terms of the availability and accessibility of sufficient, nutritionally adequate and culturally familiar foods for consumption upon arrival to Canada that interrupt their integration process in a new society. This study will provide a review of the literature on food insecurity among newcomer refugees in Canada from 2009-2019. This review, demonstrates that refugees in Canada suffer higher incidents of food insecurity than immigrants and Canadians. Existing research also indicate that food security in the case of refugees need to be perceived more than availability and accessibility of safe and nutritious foods, require provision of culturally acceptable foods. Access to culturally familiar foods may not be possible in many instances, but the negative effects of such challenges put refugees in situations of stress and anxiety in their new home. Key Words: Newcomer; Refugees; Settlement; food insecurity; food security; food availability; accessibility; culturally acceptability.

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The Experience of Food Insecurity Among Immigrants: a Scoping Review

Cited by 33 publications

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Disrupted Education?: A Latent Profile Analysis of Immigration-Related Distractions and Academic Engagement among Undocumented College Students

Disrupted Education?: A Latent Profile Analysis of Immigration-Related Distractions and Academic Engagement among Undocumented College Students

Tourism Toronto's "How to eat..." guides: a global city's map to culinary colonialism

Food insecurity among newcomer refugees in Canada

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