2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 40: Sport and Integration 2

Jun 8, 2022, 3:30 PM

Description

Chair: Annika Frahsa
Room: N16, Building C Level 3

132. Group Exercises as a Resource for the Development of Socially Integrative Potentials, Using the Example of Long-Term Unemployment and Homelessness.

Lukas Oettle

6/8/22, 3:30 PM

Long-term unemployment and homelessness lead to serious physical, psychological and social stress. Empirical studies draw attention to a downward spiral that often begins with the loss of employment, intensifies with the transition into long-term unemployment and homelessness, and makes reintegration into social structures such as employment increasingly difficult. Sport and exercise in groups...

133. Immigrants' sports participation

Eva Berthelsen Schmidt, Bjarne Ibsen, Karsten Elmose-Østerlund, Jens Høyer-Kruse

6/8/22, 3:50 PM

The purpose of the paper is to analyze immigrants' sports participation in Denmark. Inspired by ethnicity theory, marginality theory and assimilation theory we analyze the significance of different factors – ethnic background, socioeconomic position, and access to sports opportunities - for participation in different types of sport and under different forms of organization. The data basis for...

134. ‘Do know harm’: Supporting the capabilities of young people from refugee backgrounds through co-designing/delivering community sport and leisure programs

Robyn Smith, Louise Mansfield, Emma Wainwright

6/8/22, 4:10 PM

Within Western resettlement countries, sport has gained increased traction among policy makers, practitioners, and academics as a tool to meet Western neo-liberal policy goals through fostering integration, health and wellbeing, and social inclusion among young people from refugee backgrounds. Yet, considering the complex challenges that these young people experience during their displacement...

135. The meaning making of inclusion and inclusion work in Swedish martial arts - obstacles, opportunities and negotiations

Jenny Svender, Maria Johansson

6/8/22, 4:30 PM

Equality, diversity and inclusion have been discussed in the sports context for many years, in practice as well as in research. In Sweden, increased inclusion is an explicit ambition in policies of the sports movement. However, there are no specific directives on how inclusion and inclusion work should be interpreted and implemented. Rooted in a theoretical framework inspired by Foucault, the...