The Seven Sisters indoor market in Tottenham, also known as “Latin Village”, supports a variety of London-based people however Latin Americans, and more specifically South Americans, make up the largest representation of community members. The market has worked for over a decade against corporate development projects which has been met with various forms of harassment ranging from racism, sexism, unlawful fines and evictions; yet the Latin American community, residents and academics/professionals have rallied to support the grassroots development project. This ethnographic study examined how the Seven Sisters community shapes their social movement using food, identity and space while also unpacking the tensions within the social movement. Food acts an introduction to newcomers of the market as it awakens various senses and memories. Latin American identity is intertwined with food as a foundation of cultural heritage/belonging and solidarity. Space, its current and future use, is important when thinking about why communities are connected to places and how people organize to protect these spaces. However, tensions within the community project complicate notions of representation such as: which foods are represented within the market, which communities are marginalized within the movement due to being non-Latin American, and how is the current and future vision of the market imagined by different people within the community and social movement. This paper will report on findings from ethnographic investigations into the Latin American diasporic community in London as it strives to carve out social, cultural and political spaces far from home.

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