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This paper aims to understand if sport, in this case soccer, has served as a facilitating or hindering tool for a migrant community of Haitians to organize themselves into sports teams which can be integrated into institutionalized sports clubs and that facilitates experiences of inter-community and intercultural relations with other players. Local conscious and unconscious cultural exchange implies learning and transmission within the Haitian community and Chilean society, including learning new elements that influence daily life. This integration is the beginning of the inclusion of Haitian people in Chilean society.
The objective is to understand the practice of soccer as a sociocultural phenomenon and constructor of inclusion for Haitian migrants who live in the commune of Concepción.
Specific objectives: - Contextualize the sociocultural and daily reality at the time of preparing a soccer game for Haitians from the commune of Concepción.
- Identify the socio-cultural meanings that the creation of an immigrant soccer club (with legal personality) and identify if there is recognition from the local community.
- Identify how sport impacts social integration.
The Methodology is qualitative and involves exploratory, descriptive, phenomenological and ethnographic techniques.
The expected results: That Soccer be a constructor of inclusion between immigrants and the native population of Concepción. In addition it is expected that soccer allows new Haitians to integrate into the community through a "Sports Club of Haitians from Biobío" through the creation of spaces to meet each other.
