Juliet comes from Nigeria and has been living in Italy for the past 20 years. “Where I come from, a woman who does not know how to cook cannot get married”, she told me (Mauriello) when we first met during my fieldwork in Naples. Stories told by migrant women from other sub-Saharan African regions that I (Mauriello) collected in recent years describe mothers who “test” their daughters about their cooking abilities to see whether they can prepare an entire meal on their own, to be sure that “t...
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