FOOD IN THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCE
First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Food in the migrant experience. - (Studies in migration)
1. Immigrants 2. Food 3. Immigrants - Nutrition 4. Immigrants
Health and hygiene
I. Kershen, Anne J., 1942
363.8'08691
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Food in the migrant experience / edited by Anne J. Kershen.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Food habits--Great Britain--Congresses. 2. Immigrants--Great Britain--Congresses.
3. Nutrition--Great Britain--Congresses. 4. Food habits--Congresses. 5.
Immigrants--Congresses. I. Kershen, Anne J.
GT2853.G7F672002
394.1'2'0941-dc21 2002066592
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-1874-4 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-138-25135-9 (pbk)
CONTENTS
Anne J. Kershen
Lucio Sponza
Panikos Panayi
Todd Endelman
Lien Bich Luu
Bruce Hindmarsh
Anuradha Basu
Sally Chan
Angela J.M. Donkin and Elizabeth A. Dowler
Daniel W. Kirton and Alison Tedstone
Nasima Kirton and Barbara J. Boucher
Streets with high density of Italian ice-cream makers and dealers (Holborn, 1891 numbers correspond to streets listed in Table 2.4)
Leicester
Electoral wards in Leicester, 1971/81
Stages in the diffusion of beer brewing technology to and within London between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries
A model to account for poor health outcomes among refugees and asylum seekers living in industrialised countries
Paan/betel nut chewers
Location of Italians in London, 18611911 (when at least 300 were recorded on any census day)
Main occupations of Italians in the Holborn District, 184191 Parishes of St Andrews Eastern, Saffron Hill, St James/Clerkenwell (when at least 50 were recorded at any census)
Profile of Cura family through censuses, 186191
Streets with high density of Italian ice-cream makers and dealers (Holborn District), 1891
Italians residing in Fleet Row and their occupations, 186191
Ale and beer production in London, 157495
Estimates of costs of brewing a tun of beer in London, 15741636
Scale of production by alien and English beer brewers in London in 1574
United Kingdom ethnic restaurant and take-away market, 19932000 ( million)
South Asian population in Britain
Competition from other eating out venues, 199397
Age profile of respondents (mean scores) (n=26)
Diversity in educational attainment
Motives for business entry (in order of importance for sample as a whole)
Finance at start-up
Business performance
Reliance on family/co-ethnic labour and co-ethnic customers
Foods which contribute to a healthy diet, used for food price survey
Foods which were least available in shops stocking more than 50 per cent of foods on each list
Magnitude of the global crisis in refugees, as of 1999 (Data from 1)
Suggested components for a community-based survey of refugee child nutritional risk
Anuradha Basu is Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the Department of Management at the School of Business, University of Reading and founder Director of the newly created Centre for Entrepreneurship in the School of Business, University of Reading. Her current research interests focus on ethnic minority entrepreneurship and the role of the family in ethnic minority business development.
Her recent publications include: Family Finance and New Business Startups, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 63, No. 3, July 2001 (joint paper with Simon Parker); Culture and Entrepreneurship: A Study of London s Immigrant Businesses, University of Reading Discussion Paper in Economics and Management, No. 432, 2001; The Emergence of a South Asian Business Elite in the UK, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2001, pp. 24965; Family and Business: A Study of Asian Entrepreneurs in Britain, in P. Poutziouris (ed.), Tradition or Entrepreneurship in the New Economy, Proceedings of the 11 th Annual World Conference of the Family Business Network, London, 2000.
Barbara J. Boucher, a recently retired consultant physician and senior lecturer, remains attached to the Departments of General Medicine and of Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine of both the Medical and Dental School Queen Mary, University of London and of Barts and the Royal London NHS in an honorary capacity. Her published research includes work on diet, on various metabolic disorders and on the assessment and care of those with diabetes. Current work includes the study of vitamin D deficiency and betel-usage as risk factors for diabetes and ischaemic heart disease, the role of vitamin D status on weight and body-build at birth and the effect of date of birth on the risk of diabetes in adult life.
Sally Chan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Retailing and Marketing at The Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her experience in consultancy includes user focus groups for the Design Support Centre, consumer research for ASDA Stores Ltd, service satisfaction surveys for the Princes Trust, and marketing education to institutions in China. She is presently completing a doctoral thesis about second generation Chinese entrepreneurial behaviour in Britain and Australia.
Angela J.M. Donkin is currently Senior Research Officer for the Office for National Statistics and is engaged in managing research into health inequalities. Her PhD was on the influence of TV advertising on childrens food choice and she subsequently worked on aspects of constraints to food choice. Her published works include articles on mapping access to healthy food and the results of research into minimum income requirements for healthy living.
Elizabeth A. Dowler is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, where she works on food and nutrition as social policy issues. She has carried out research and consultancy in many parts of the world and, latterly, has focused on food and low income, and public perceptions of food risk, in the UK and the rest of Europe. She has published widely and her most recent publications include Poverty Bites: Food, Health and Poor Families (2001), together with Angela Donkin et al., a paper on Mapping Access to Healthy Food in Deprived Areas (2001), and Nutrition policy through the life stages, in P. Shetty (ed.),
