Cuisine et organisation domestique en migration. Résultats de l’enquête Coralim

Abstract

Everyday dietary habits lend themselves to an exploration of parental practices, addressed here from the point of view of the children of migrants, with the Coralim survey of the French National Institute for Agronomic and Environmental Research. Socially differentiated family cooking influences children’s food preferences. Household organization depends as much on the origin as on the structure of migrant households, with less traditional functioning than expected, more egalitarian practices, and more organizational diversity supported by other adults (adult children, other relatives). This organization determines the children’s participation in housework, which is marginal in egalitarian extended families where tasks are distributed among the adults, whereas the assignment of mothers to the kitchen in traditional and single-parent families strengthens children’s participation, especially that of girls, attesting to the gendered nature of household socialization.