Food traditions and migration Representations about Korean cuisine in Buenos Aires

This article proposes a reflection on national cuisines, the representations associated with them and the ways in which they are used in the constructions of identities in migratory contexts. Specifically, we analyze the case of Korean migrants in Buenos Aires city, observing the senses associated with the "Korean" and "Argentinean" food traditions. National cuisines are historical constructions with certain anchoring in the collective memory and the past practices, which are reconstructed and updated in each context. We understand that, like identities, national cuisines are relational; they reconstruct their senses in relation to an "other. Thus, the sociohistorical processes that shaped them will be central, as well as the different discourses deployed in public policies, the media, and cultural industry products. And at the same time, in a migratory context like the one analyzed here, intercultural contact will intervene placing these representations in dialogue, conflict and tension.