Remembering the past and constructing the future over a communal plate: Restaurants established by African asylum seekers in Tel Aviv

Food, Culture and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 197-222

  Sabar, Galia ^a   Posner, Rachel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Commensality; Forced migration; Memory; Restaurants; Senses; Tel Aviv

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878715743     PISSN: 15528014     EISSN: 17517443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175174413X13589681351692     Document Type: Article

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