Rethinking Sports and Integration : Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports

Agergaard, Sine

ISBN 10: 0367894173 / ISBN 13: 9780367894177

Published by Routledge, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Sports and Integration : Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367894173
• ISBN 13: 9780367894177
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descendants. It examines the origins of this idea and the concept of integration, and analyzes the problems in focus, the methods applied and the results of sports-related integration programmes.

The text also redefines sports-related integration with perspectives from migration studies that highlight the super-diversity within migrant groups, and explore the various ways in which transnational connections influence participation in sport within migrant communities.

This book is important reading for students and researchers working in sport development, sport policy or migration studies, as well as a valuable resource for sports governing bodies, policymakers and project workers.

About the Author

Sine Agergaard is a social anthropologist and professor in humanistic and social sports science at the Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is also a co-founder and currently the head of the International Network for Research in Sport and Migration Issues (spomi-net).