Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: challenging the contribution of sport

Spracklen, Karl; Long, Jonathan; Hylton, Kevin

doi:10.1080/02614367.2014.939989

Cited by 56 publications

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“…Not least, sports-based interventions have been directed towards urban areas of exclusion (e.g. Bustad and Andrews 2017; Collins and Haudenhuyse 2015; Kelly 2011) and towards the inclusion of migrants (Agergaard, Michelsen la Cour, and Treumer Gregersen 2015;Forde et al 2015;Long, Hylton, and Spracklen 2014;Spracklen, Long, and Hylton 2015), involving civil society actors in welfare provision (Agergaard 2012;Ekholm 2016). Notably, participation in sport has been recognized as a path to inclusion (e.g.…”

Section: Sports-based Interventions: a Means Of Making Social Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

2019

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Absence from sport participation among girls from ethno-cultural minorities is often highlighted as an inclusion policy challenge. Based on 35 interviews with community sports coaches, managers and partners, we explore how the absence of girls is problematized in four Swedish sports-based interventions, focusing on how problems, as well as the means and the ends of social inclusion, are articulated. The girls are assessed as being in need of social change due to their alleged social exclusion. Absence is explained by “patriarchal norms” as well as by the introvert conduct of the girls themselves. Girls-only sports activities performed by female coaches as role models are described as a way for girls to gain social inclusion and to become emancipated from subjugating norms. In conclusion, participation in community sport is highlighted in discourse as crucial for adopting powers of emancipation. A similar discourse could be recognized elsewhere, inside and outside the realm of sport.

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Section: Sports-based Interventions: a Means Of Making Social Policymentioning

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Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

2019

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“…This section introduces this area of interest, before discussing some of the issues in football before highlighting a potential role football can play in physical health promotion. Racial and ethnic barriers have been the focus of a growing body of research that has considered the dynamics of ethnic differences and identities, nation and relations in and through sport -it is generally agreed that the experiences of Black and Asian people in sport are mediated by racism (Carrington 2010;Hylton and Morpeth 2014;Spracklen, Long, and Hylton 2014). Thirty-two studies in the decade up to 2009 identified that racism, in its various forms, had a negative impact on the involvement and experiences of Black and minority ethnic groups (Hylton et al 2015).…”

Section: Black Minority and Ethnic (Bme) Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retracted article: Football and physical health: what do we know?

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Sport in Society

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Our current understanding is that football is a popular intervention option and can offer valuable health improvement programme success. This includes interventions delivered by professional football clubs and their respective in the community programmes, as well as other sports clubs organizing recreational football and Football Fitness, which is small-sided football training rather than competitive 11v11 matches. This article seeks to communicate an understanding of the role of football in physical health improvement using research, grey literature and policy documentation undertaken predominantly across the UK and Europe. The core themes that emerge from the review include the following health conditions and behaviours: overweight and obese, cardiovascular disease and lifestyle-related diseases; and the following target groups: children and young people, men, women and older adults, including Black, minority and ethnic groups. The evidence supports the health effects of football for these conditions and behaviours across the lifespan through controlled interventions and through community-based football programmes. The article concludes with a number of practical implications to improve the effectiveness of football-led physical health interventions.

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“…Linking sociological debates and insights from geography and mobility studies research, I build upon an understanding of both diasporic and transnational identities to include theoretical insights about translocalism. The findings of this paper therefore adds knowledge to the limited body of leisure research examining the experiences of migrant groups in England (Spracklen, Long and Hylton, 2014). However, the studies that do attend to the leisure lives of diasporic groups have tended to be about the identities and belongings of men, and their leisure pastimes, rather than what women do for leisure, with whom, where and for what purpose.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Yet despite the importance of leisure for migrant communities in England, there has been little examination of the range of activities and cultural pastimes that constitute their leisure time (Spracklen, Long, & Hylton, 2014).…”

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Walking for leisure: the translocal lives of first generation Gujarati Indian men and women

Ratna

2017

Leisure Studies

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Walking as a leisure pastime is particularly popular amongst first generation members of the South Asian community. In this paper, walking is used as a vehicle to explore the connections that these Gujarati Indian men and women have to the spaces/ places of their local communities and 'home'. Whilst the lives of younger generations of South Asian men and women have tended to be at the forefront of academic debates, this has had the unfortunate effect of reducing the subjectivities of older groups to more narrow and fixed ideas about South Asian traditions and cultures. Thus limiting an understanding of their identities as also being hybrid, multiple and in-process. Additionally, much of the research about the leisure lives of migrant groups has been based upon research about the subjectivities and belonging of men, the histories of women have been relatively ignored. In order to address these absences, this research utilised participatory methods to explore first generation Gujarati Indian men and women's experiences of walking. The research findings revealed that the spaces/places that they walked through and across as part of their daily routines whilst relatively ordinary, were deeply meaningful, they enabled the participants to forward the translocal character of their identities over time and across space.

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Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: challenging the contribution of sport

Cited by 56 publications

References 40 publications

Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

Retracted article: Football and physical health: what do we know?

Walking for leisure: the translocal lives of first generation Gujarati Indian men and women

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