Cultural memory through food: Identities after forced migration
Journal: Antropoloji
Year: 2025

This study aims to explore the impact of forced migration on the eating habits of migrants. It also seeks to determine whether people who have experienced forced migration have transmitted the foods they consider their own to future generations. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 families who migrated to Türkiye. After World War II, approximately 500,000 Bosnians, Albanians, and Pomaks in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were forced or encouraged to leave their lands. Türkiye ac