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Journal Article
The ecology of plant ingredients, food heritage, and adaptation among Syrian, Afghan, and Egyptian Coptic diasporas in Northwestern Italy
2025
Overview
Background
This study investigates how migration affects the culinary practices of Syrian, Afghan, and Egyptian Coptic communities living in Northwest Italy, specifically focusing on how these groups preserve, adapt, or abandon traditional foodways in a new socio-cultural environment. The objective is to understand the role of food in maintaining cultural identity and navigating integration in the host country.
Methods
Using a multidisciplinary approach, the research combines semi-structured interviews with 64 participants. Data were analyzed using SAS 9.4 and R 4.4.2. Descriptive and frequency analyses summarized demographic and food-related patterns, while Fisher’s exact tests and logistic regression assessed differences and predictors of traditional food maintenance. Qualitative data from interviews were thematically analyzed using an inductive approach, highlighting key themes such as adaptation, resilience, and cultural continuity.
Results
The findings reveal distinct culinary patterns shaped by each group’s cultural and ecological heritage, Syrian horticultural traditions, Afghan pastoral legacies, and the Coptic plant-based diet. While culinary resilience, adaptation, and loss occur across all groups, the extent varies. Influencing factors include ingredient availability, economic constraints, and levels of social integration. Age, gender, religion, and migration history further shape food behavior.
Conclusions
This research underscores the dynamic relationship between migration and food, highlighting how culinary practices serve as a site of both cultural preservation and adaptation in diaspora contexts.
Publisher
BioMed Central,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
Subject
/ Adult
/ Cities
/ Complementary & Alternative Medicine
/ Cooking - statistics & numerical data
/ Culture
/ Diaspora
/ Ecology
/ Emigrants and Immigrants - statistics & numerical data
/ Female
/ Food
/ Food heritage and food ethnobiology
/ foodways
/ gender
/ Humans
/ Italy
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ Middle Eastern People - ethnology
/ Middle Eastern People - statistics & numerical data
/ Multiculturalism & pluralism
/ North African People - statistics & numerical data
/ Religion
/ Society
/ South Asian People - ethnology
