文化地理学视角下跨国移民饮食适应研究进展与启示

PROGRESS OF RESEARCH ON DIETARY ACCULTURATION OF TRANSNATIONAL IMMIGRANTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

全球化进程下,跨国移民成为不同地域间文化交流、冲突和再协商的主要载体,其在地饮食适应问题尤为凸显。本文回顾了国内外跨国移民饮食适应的研究,发现由营养学等范式主导的早期研究偏重对饮食适应水平的直接观测,较少探究饮食适应的身体属性、地方关系以及文化意涵。文化地理学视角下的跨国移民饮食适应的相关研究进展主要包括以下三个方面:身体尺度下的动态饮食适应过程、地方尺度下跨国饮食景观的生产与重构,以及身体与地方交互尺度下饮食适应与身份认同的复杂关系。本文最后针对当前研究的主要不足提出未来跨国移民饮食适应研究的可能议题。

Under the process of globalization, transnational immigrant groups have become a realistic carrier of cultural exchanges, conflicts and renegotiations between different regions and countries. Their original food cultures are challenged to varying degrees and collide and integrate with local food cultures, often caught in the dilemma of maintaining the culture of the origin and integrating into the local dietary pattern,resulting in serious dietary acculturation problems. This paper reviews the domestic and international research on dietary acculturation of transnational immigrants, and finds that the disciplinary paradigm of nutrition science has dominated early research, focusing on the material attributes of diets and direct observation of the level of dietary adaptation of transnational immigrants, with little discussion on the embodiments and subjectivities, local relations and cultural implications of dietary acculturation. Research on transnational migrant dietary acculturation from a cultural geography perspective has focused on the following three aspects:The dynamic process of dietary acculturation guided by trans-local subjectivity at the body scale, the production and reconstruction of transnational dietary landscapes at the local scale, and the complex relationship between dietary acculturation and identity at the interactive scale of body and place. The paper concludes by proposing possible topics for future research on dietary acculturation of transnational immigrants. As China has become an emerging destination for transnational migrants. The research on dietary acculturation not only helps to guide new theoretical trends in food geography, but also contributes to the promotion of social integration of transnational immigrants in China, the development of a diverse and balanced urban foodscape,and the enhancement of the soft power of food culture.