New Trend in Food Conservation: Chefugee, Displaced Kitchen and Displaced Dinner

Contemporary studies explore the links between migration and refugee, conflict and human right violations. Refugees encounter integration problems. Several studies reveal a growing trend to tackle refugee integration problem through programs such as chefugee. This project, which was initiated by Madrid for Refugees, arranged pop-up dinners each month cooked by refugee chefs from around the world. This paper argues that rebranding refugee through programs such as chefugee, Displaced Kitchen and Displaced Dinner by utilizing digital technology as means of promotion, can accelerate integration for these refugees and increase acceptance and positive interest from consumers of the programs. Preliminary research maps the global food conservation through immigration and integration by content analysis. As the preliminary findings, conserving food is not only by growing native food plants in the refugee settlements, but also conserving the native food culture in the new countries. The refugee networking aims to reach the balance between conservation and economic sustainability.