Tracing the graphic heritage of Hackney's migrant communities through food

![CDATA[The borough of Hackney’s position within the East End of London, and its proximity to the docks, means that migrants have been settling there since the 18th century. The borough can be described as ‘super-diverse’ (Vertovec, 2007) with several well-established, large communities of migrants who settled in Hackney in the 1900s having been joined by many more recent arrivals from across the world. These newer arrivals bring with them not only diversity in terms of their country of origin, but also language, religion, migration channels and immigration status, gender, and socioeconomic status (Vertovec, 2007). This chapter focuses primarily on diversity in relation to country of origin, ethnicity and lan-guage and outlines how, as part of the process of negotiating a sense of belonging and identity, food’s ‘graphic heritage’ (Harland & Xu, 2021) plays a critical part in facilitating the navigation of a transnational and ‘translocal’ space (Brickell & Datta, 2011), connecting migrants with notions of ‘home’ in the material present and a remembered or imagined sense of ‘home’ elsewhere in the past.]]