Leisure and Forced Migration

This book offers a timely and critical exploration of leisure and forced migration from multiple disciplinary perspectives, spanning sociology, gender studies, migration studies and anthropology. It engages with perspectives and experiences that unsettle and oppose dehumanising and infantilising binaries surrounding forced migrants in contemporary society. The book presents cutting edge research addressing three inter-related themes: spaces and temporalities; displaced bodies and intersecting inequalities; voices, praxis and (self)representation. Drawing on and expanding critical leisure studies perspectives on class, gender, sexuality and race/ethnicity, the book spotlights leisure and how it can interrogate and challenge dominant narratives, practices and assumptions on forced migration and lives lived in asylum systems. Furthermore, it contributes to current debates on the scope, relevance and aims of leisure studies within the present, unfolding global scenario. This is an important resource for students and scholars across leisure, sport, gender, sociology, anthropology and migration studies. It is also a valuable read for practitioners, advocates and community organisers addressing issues of forced migration and sanctuary.

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Physical Cultures at Bournemouth University, UK, and a member of Associazione Frantz Fanon in Turin, Italy. Jayne Caudwell is Associate Professor in Social Sciences, Gender and Sexualities in the Department of Social Sciences and Social Work at Bournemouth University, UK.

1. Leisure and forced migration: Lives lived in asylum systems, Part I: Spaces and temporalities, 2. Informal football spaces and the negotiation of temporal politics in the lives of forced migrants, 3. A spatial-phenomenological analysis of asylum-seeking women's engagement in a cycling recreation program, 4. Thick leisure: Waiting time in a migratory context, 5. "We're the (global) North Bank...": Transnational fandom, forced migration and football consumption, Part II: Displaced bodies and intersecting inequalities, 6. Leisure provision for LGBTIQ+ refugees: Opportunities and constraints on building solidarity and citizenship across differences in Brazil, 7. Granted asylum and healthy living? Women newcomers' experiences of accessing leisure time physical activity in Denmark, 8. Pain, faith and yoga: An intersectional-phenomenological perspective on Syrian Muslim women's experiences of resettlement in Sweden, 9. Voices from the margins: Khat-chewing, devotional leisure and ambivalence in the British-Somali diaspora, Part III: Voices, praxis, and (self)representation, 10. Decolonial stories of forced migrants in physical activity and sport: "We the Afghan kids", 11. A different approach to making theatre with refugees: A refuge from being a refugee, 12. A Shia Ismaili Muslim's ringette experiences on and off the ice: An autoethnography