Forced Migration and Sport

This book aims to extend and deepen conversations among scholars, policymakers, and practitioners about the role of sport in relation to contexts and issues of forced migration. Chapters critically analyse and interrogate the implications of existing approaches, practices, and research around sport and forced migration across five themes.

Ramón Spaaij is Professor in the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Australia, and Visiting Professor in the Utrecht University School of Governance, The Netherlands. His research addresses sociocultural aspects and impacts of sport, with a focus on diversity, social inclusion, social change, and violence. Carla Luguetti is Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Australia, and an expert in sport pedagogy and social justice. Her work focuses on activist approaches within sport and physical education context, in collaboration with researchers and practitioners from all over the world. Nicola De Martini Ugolotti is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Physical Culture at Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, and member of Associazione Frantz Fanon, Italy. His research is located at the intersection of sport/leisure, urban and (forced) migration studies.

Forced migration and sport: an introduction Part 1: Participatory methodologies, power, voice and ethics 1. Critically examining a community-based participatory action research project with forced migrant youth 2. 'Should I really be here?': Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure 3. A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football 4. Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective 5. Participatory action research and visual and digital methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: process, ethical complexities, and reciprocity Part 2: Emotions, affect and embodiment 6. Exploring the somatic dimension for sport-based interventions: a refugee's autoethnography 7. The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men 8. "They play together, they laugh together': Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects Part 3: Gender and intersectional perspectives 9. In her own words: a refugee's story of forced migration, trauma, resilience, and soccer 10. We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the 'politics of invisibility' 11. Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women's experiences of football Part 4: Critical perspectives on integration and intercultural communication 12. Running for inclusion: responsibility, (un)deservingness and the spectacle of integration in a sport-for-refugees intervention in Geneva, Switzerland 13. Escaping the position as 'other': a postcolonial perspective on refugees' trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs 14. The 'integrative potential' and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum 15. Leaders building relationships with young refugees during a sport project 16. Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games 17. Stadia of Sanctuary? Forced migration, flawed football consumers and refugee supporters clubs