Résumé :
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Introduction: Between 2000 and 2007, 34 Roma families participated in an exceptional affirmative action programme addressed to a specific ethnic minority in France. These families had been living for 10 years in the urban interstices of the conurbation of Sénart, a lower-middle-class residential area on the outskirts of Paris. In the wake of the urban policies against social exclusion launched in the mid-1990s, the Sénart Project developed a local public action that combined accommodation and a social accompaniment programme, which included an educational component to teach healthy eating, time organization and household budget management.By focusing on the nutrition-related actions implemented, in this article I analyse how the cultural aspects of food and eating habits were addressed within the project. Methods: I undertook a four-year ethnographic fieldwork 18 months after the Sénart Project ended. This included documentary analysis of its archives, interviews with its beneficiaries and the professionals involved, and ethnography among three extended families with distinct integration histories. Conclusion: This study sheds light on the pivotal significance of taking into consideration communities of care and applying a comprehensive intercultural understanding of social practices in nutrition interventions. These conditions are the sine qua non for providing nutritional benefit equally to all.
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