Venezuelan Migrant Gustatory Memory and Its Consolidation in Transit and Destination Scenarios

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Carolina Rey Rivera

Abstract

This article aims to make visible the culinary practices of Venezuelan migrants associated with the loss of their tradition. Under this guideline, it analyzes how their tradition becomes a practice of gustatory memories, through the places where they build their memory, the routes of flavor they visit and the fusions that give rise to the assimilation of their cultural citizenship in the Pueblo Libre district in Lima, Peru. The methodology structured an exploratory qualitative approach and the use of ethnographic techniques such as the photographic archive and grounded theory. It analyzes the data obtained through the qualitative analysis software ATLAS.ti. The main findings show how migrants, in the absence of traditional inputs, build information networks through their taste memory, evoking their culture and bringing it to their reality through the creation of productive ventures, using WhatsApp as a means of communication, connection and marketing par excellence to share with family, friends, and clients various recipes and preparations that strengthen a new identity of the Venezuelan migrant, based on fusion food.

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Rey Rivera, C. (2024). Venezuelan Migrant Gustatory Memory and Its Consolidation in Transit and Destination Scenarios . Sosquua, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.52948/sosquua.v6i2.1040
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