‘Do know harm’: Examining the intersecting capabilities of young people from refugee backgrounds through community sport and leisure programmes

Smith, Robyn; Mansfield, Louise; Wainwright, Emma

doi:10.1177/10126902221150123

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“…To help ensure anonymity and confidentiality, participants’ names have been replaced by pseudonyms and details that would risk making them recognisable have been slightly modified. The research engaged with approaches that go beyond the standardised practices of procedural ethics (MacKenzie et al, 2007; Smith et al, 2023). As a White Italian male researcher, I was aware of the risk of reproducing the exploitative relations that participants experienced in their day-to-day lives.…”

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“…Although this study did not employ the Participatory Action Research framework that has been used in recent works on sport and forced migration studies (Smith et al, 2023; Stone, 2018), the methodological decisions outlined above contributed to creating more equitable relations. Yet, my position of privilege in terms of language, race, gender, legal status and class, still involve an inextricable differential of power between me and the participants.…”

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Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy

Genovesi

2023

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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As radical right parties capitalise on the salience of immigration among the Italian public, this paper explores solidarity grassroots football as a unique lens to investigate how people seeking asylum resist the effects of policies and discourses of exclusion, and develop senses of belonging in the microscale of their day-to-day lives. Sport and migration studies researchers have primarily considered policy-based questions (e.g. how can sport facilitate integration?). In shifting the focus from integration to belonging, this ethnographic study engages with the embodied and affective experiences of individuals seeking asylum. Employing the analytical framework for the study of belonging advanced by Yuval-Davis and integrated by Antonsich, four themes are discussed: the agency of people seeking asylum in appropriating football to nurture a positive sense of self; the emergence of the material environment of sporting activities as a space of belonging; the negotiation of belonging within and beyond the team; and the local neighbourhood as possible trait d’union between sport-specific attachments and belonging to the wider community. The article contends that involvement in solidarity grassroots football can provide people seeking asylum with opportunities for belonging that go beyond the momentary, and play a vital role in resisting the liminality imposed by autochthonic politics of belonging.

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Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy

Genovesi

2023

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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De Martini Ugolotti

2024

Music, Forced Migration and Emplacement

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Co-designing a Physical Activity Service for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Using an Experience-Based Co-design Framework

McKeon,

Curtis,

Rostami

et al. 2024

J Immigrant Minority Health

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People from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds resettling in Australia often experience intersecting risks for poor mental and physical health. Physical activity can promote better health outcomes, however there are limited programs tailored for this population. Therefore, understanding how to support refugees and asylum seekers to engage in physical activity is crucial. This paper aims to describe how the experience-based co-design (EBCD) process was used to identify priorities for a new physical activity service for refugees and asylum seekers. Using an EBCD framework we conducted qualitative interviews and co-design workshops with service users (refugees and asylum seekers living in the community) and service providers at a community Centre in Sydney, Australia. Sixteen participants, including eight service users and eight service providers engaged in the EBCD process over 12-months. The interviews revealed common themes or ‘touchpoints’ including barriers and enablers to physical activity participation such as access, safety and competing stressors. Subsequent co-design focus groups resulted in the establishment of five fundamental priorities and actionable strategies; ensuring cultural and psychological safety, promoting accessibility, facilitating support to access basic needs, enhancing physical activity literacy and fostering social connection. Using EBCD methodology, this study used the insights and lived experiences of both service users and providers to co-design a physical activity service for refugees and asylum seekers which is safe, supportive, social and accessible. The results of the implementation and evaluation of the program are ongoing.

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‘Do know harm’: Examining the intersecting capabilities of young people from refugee backgrounds through community sport and leisure programmes

Cited by 5 publications

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Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy

Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy

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Co-designing a Physical Activity Service for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Using an Experience-Based Co-design Framework

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