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TUNON PABLOS, Esperanza. Migrants in the United States: testimonials about eating habits, health and the body. Inter disciplina [online]. 2022, vol.10, n.26, pp.22-59.  Epub 04-Abr-2022. ISSN 2448-5705.  https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2022.26.80968.

This article presents testimonies from Mexican migrant women and men living in the New York state, United States, about their health and eating habits. Through them we identify life styles, strategies to obtain, prepare and consume foods, as well as the cultural beliefs associated with models of health and beauty. The article contrasts these testimonies against the sociodemographic data of the informants giving us a panorama of the diversity of living situations that exist regarding these topics; this offers us the opportunity to categorize and identify behavioral rules and eating habits for social groups within the larger category of migrants. Our results show differences within migrants associated with consumer habits by socioeconomic level, place of residence and time since arrival to the United States. There are also differences by gender, marital and conjugal status. Also notable is the context of the place where the person migrated to and the tension that migrants encounter surrounding issues of acculturation and the construction of new eating habits.

Palavras-chave : eating habits; overweight and obesity; migration; testimonies.

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