FOODCIRCUITS

FOODCIRCUITS: Hidden Connections between Migrants and Societies is an ERC-funded research project that explores the embodied experiences of individuals involved in all stages of food production and distribution, with a focus on farmworkers, supply chain workers, and consumers. The project studies how these participants' relationships with specific fruits and vegetables are shaped by and reinforce their social positions, while also exposing the often-invisible connections that link them, which in turn reflect and reproduce broader social dynamics.

Through an ethnographic investigation of three specific food circuits—German asparagus, Spanish oranges, and California strawberries—FOODCIRCUITS aims to reveal both the shared and divergent patterns that emerge across these contexts, as experienced by those who contribute to the production, distribution, and consumption of these foods. By focusing on the lived experiences of the people embedded within these circuits, the project seeks to deepen our understanding of how global food systems operate as complex networks of social and economic relationships with important implications for social science, humanities and public policy. 

To learn more about the project, approach, and FOODCIRCUITS team, please visit: https://web.ub.edu/en/web/projecte-recerca-foodcircuits