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Paper short abstract:

This paper questions the role of food in the articulation of hospitality and inhospitality between migrant populations and members of majority societies in Bordeaux region ( city and countryside). at the intersection of public space, food, and migration.

Paper long abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to question the role of food in the articulation of relations between migrant populations and members of French majority society in the public space in Bordeaux and Sainte Foy La Grande (France). The centrality of food in civil unions is giving shape to (in)security and agency and ideas about citizenship in our unequal yet globally connected societies. We will analyze the civic engagement of members of association (migrants and "established" (Elias) at the intersection of food, migration and inequalities. How do migrants, refugees and civil associations make use of food as a resource or as political resistances ? How can those "accidental communities" between asylum seekers, refugees, "established" make mutual intercultural knowledge? How can food become a means to express political resistance to social exclusion processes within wine and ultraliberal French society ? We would like to interrogate the transformative power of food within progressive dynamics at the local level and beyond. Ultimately, our goal is to show how mobilizations through food, for and with migrants, reflect the ideologies as well as the social, economic and political ambitions of ordinary citizens.