Abstract

CASTILLO LOBOS, Lucía  and  CONTRERAS VALERIA, Carla. Don’t Let Children Without Fruit! Food Practices as a Political Action of Haitian Migrant Mothers in Chile. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2023, vol.18, e667.  Epub Sep 14, 2023. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2023.v18.667.

Using an intercultural approach, this paper aims to analyze the food practices of the children of Haitian mothers in Chile. The methodology corresponded to a qualitative, exploratory and interpretative study carried out with a study group comprised of nine Haitian mothers who were raising children under four years of age who had access to public primary healthcare and preschool education in Chile. Semi-structured interviews were held, the findings of which were subjected to a thematic analysis that led to theorizing around two categories of analysis: knowledge, deficiencies, and integration, as well as tensions with the healthcare system. The study concluded that the interviewed mothers interwove their culture of origin, food availability in Chile, the acceptance of the Chilean gastronomic culture, and the tensions of the relationship with the healthcare system, to develop the feeding practices of their children that are gestated at home and transition towards the public realm, as a political manifestation leading to social integration.

Keywords : migrants; food practices; childhood; childrearing.

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