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Salvadoran Diaspora Foodways

Diaspora

⚠ A DIASPORA ON THE SCALE OF THE COUNTRY. Very large emigration during and after the civil war of 1979-92 and continuing since means a substantial share of people of Salvadoran origin live outside El Salvador, chiefly in the UNITED STATES — Los Angeles above all, plus Washington DC and its Virginia and Maryland suburbs, Houston, New York and San Francisco — and in Canada, Australia, Spain, Italy, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico and Belize. The PUPUSERÍA travelled intact and is now an ordinary American restaurant category; remittances are a very large share of national income and are themselves a food-system fact, funding household consumption. ⚠ DIASPORA SALVADORAN FOOD IS NOT INFERIOR OR FAKE and is recorded as its own development.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Salvadorans abroad community documented

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Emigration during and after the Salvadoran civil war of 1979-92 and continuing since has placed a substantial share of people of Salvadoran origin outside the country, principally in the United States. Remittances constitute a very large share of national income and are recorded as a food-system factor through household consumption. The pupusería is documented as an established restaurant category in the United States. documented
  • The Salvadoran civil war drives mass emigration, principally to the United States; remittances become a very large share of national income. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • migrated to American documented

    Los Angeles, Washington DC, Houston, New York; the pupusería is now an ordinary American restaurant category.

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