This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships intimacy care
consumption exchange and other fundamental anthropological concerns examining them in
relation to wider transnational spaces. As the contributors to this volume argue food and its
related practices offer a window through which to examine the reconciliation of people's
localised intimate experiences with globalising forces. Their analyses contribute to an
embodied and sensorial approach to social change by examining migrants and their families'
experiences of global connectedness through familiar objects and narratives. By bringing in
in-depth ethnographic insights from different social and economic contexts this book widens
the understanding of the lived experiences of mobility and goes beyond the divide between
origin and destination countries therefore contributing to new ways of thinking about
migration and transnationalism that take into consideration the materiality of global
connections and the way such connections are embodied and experienced at the local level.
