Promoting Acculturation Through Sport: An Ethnic-Cultural Identity Approach

Morela, Eleftheria; Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis; Sánchez, Xavier; Elbe, Anne‐Marie

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“…Previous research regarding the acculturative role of sport has revealed that an appropriate motivational environment, described as autonomy supportive, task‐involving, and socially supportive environment, is linked to attitudes favoring the integration of migrants in both migrant (Elbe et al., 2016) and host populations (Morela et al., 2016). Morela et al.…”

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Youth sport motivational climate and attitudes toward migrants’ acculturation: The role of empathy and altruism

Morela

Hatzigeorgiadis

Theodorakis

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J Applied Social Pyschol

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Previous research has shown that an empowering motivational climate in organized sport has been linked to attitudes favoring migrants’ integration. The purpose of the present study was to further test the relationship between motivational climate and acculturation attitudes, and to explore the role of prosocial skills as potential mediators of this relationship in adolescent athletes from the host population. Participants were 338 (13.61 ± .95 years of age) Greek adolescents (167 girls) participating in organized sport. Participants’ acculturation attitudes, prosocial skills, and perceptions of the coach‐created motivational climate were measured. Analysis of structural models revealed that an empowering motivational climate was positively related with prosocial skills, reflecting empathy and altruism, which in turn were positively linked with acculturation attitudes favoring migrants’ integration. The results of the present study replicate previous findings regarding the links between empowering motivational climate and acculturation attitudes, and further, provide evidence that prosocial skills such as empathy and altruism mediate this relationship.

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Youth sport motivational climate and attitudes toward migrants’ acculturation: The role of empathy and altruism

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Theodorakis

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“…Although the young migrant players were already familiar with the sport field, the moving to a new place demanded efforts to acquire capitals and to be inserted into the new culture and social structure (Bourdieu and Wacquant, 2000). Sport can be considered a good instrument for migrants cultural adaptation, considering its capacity of bringing people together (Morela et al, 2016), especially when individuals share similar cultural capitals (Smith et al, 2019; Ungruhe and Agergaard, 2020b), as in the case reported by P5.…”

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Moving Away: Intra-National Migration Experiences of Brazilian Men Elite Futsal Players During Youth

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Barker-Ruchti

Schubring

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International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Migration experiences are common for athletes, especially in team sports. Moving from home to a recruiting sport club has become an indispensable career investment. This is also the case in Brazilian futsal, where many developing players move to more promising clubs within the country. This process is often challenging, but little researched. The purpose of this article is to investigate 13 Brazilian men elite futsal players’ intra-national migration experiences during their youth. We aim to: provide insight into what factors allowed players to invest in a futsal career through migration; demonstrate the challenges young players faced during their migration; and describe how they adapted to the futsal context they had moved to. We use a Bourdieusian framework to examine young futsal players’ disposition to intra-national migration and the influence of capitals on their integration in the receiving places. A thematic analysis allowed us to identify that: Players’ disposition to migration was shaped by their families’ habitus and illusio related to futsal; some of the reported issues could have been avoided if clubs had provided more efficient support to young migrant athletes; and families and networks (social capital) were key for players being able to adapt to the new futsal context.

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“…El deporte puede convertirse también en una herramienta de movilidad social para las personas, ya que a partir de su práctica puede ser reconocido y obtener prestigio ante los demás; de allí que Águila (2013) menciona que existe una promesa de ser reconocido y esto motiva a especializarse o alcanzar a profesionalizarse, por esto los deportistas dan "respuesta positiva ante la espectacularidad de los eventos deportivos convierte el deporte profesional en un importante escaparate apetecible para intereses ideológicos, culturales, económicos y políticos". (p.10) No obstante, la práctica de deporte en distintas disciplinas se mantiene a lo largo del tiempo por su carácter social, cultural y político que se debate entre la mercantilización y desigualdad, los efectos positivos en el estado mental y físico (Barbosa & Urrea, 2018) y los valores que transmite en la sociedad y en escenarios tan complejos como la migración, en los que se puede lograr la socialización deportiva en las poblaciones tanto de acogida como migrante (Morela et al, 2017).…”

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Transformación social del bienestar humano: una reflexión de la práctica deportiva

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El deporte está representado en el imaginario social como una actividad importante para la vida saludable de los individuos. Así, esta aprehensión afectiva y simbólica siempre se encuentra referenciada por contextos o escenarios cuyas identidades personales, sociales y culturales transitan en la vida social y en las propias subjetividades de las personas que la habitan; como toda actividad humana es considerada una herramienta que le otorga a los practicantes beneficios a nivel social que le impacta en su realidad y en la de los demás, de tal forma que se puede promover positivamente la calidad de vida desde una perspectiva de política pública, para el desarrollo y bienestar global.

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Promoting Acculturation Through Sport: An Ethnic-Cultural Identity Approach

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Youth sport motivational climate and attitudes toward migrants’ acculturation: The role of empathy and altruism

Youth sport motivational climate and attitudes toward migrants’ acculturation: The role of empathy and altruism

Moving Away: Intra-National Migration Experiences of Brazilian Men Elite Futsal Players During Youth

Transformación social del bienestar humano: una reflexión de la práctica deportiva

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