‘Connected to Something’: Soccer and the Transnational Passions, Memories and Communities of Sydney's Italian Migrants

Mini U Brochures: Advertising Social Exclusion at a Post-Secondary Institution, Canada?

“…For instance, spring break programs on pages 14 -16 provided young people with six different programs, but three of which were wall climbing, hockey, and skate programs that are generally considered to be White dominant sports (Fletcher, 2008;MacDonald, 2011). However, the sessions of soccer and basketball conceived as ethnically dominant sports by the public and media (Mauro, 2013;Ricatti & Klugman, 2013) were included all together under the sport sampler program category, and its program description was only one paragraph. Moreover, there was half a letter-size picture of wall climbing along with a small one in the introductory page: one for dodgeball, one for hockey, and one for gymnastics; each of the wall climbing, hockey, and skate programs had a paragraph of its program description (e.g., three paragraphs in total) that means more information spaces for those programs.…”

“…Moreover, there was half a letter-size picture of wall climbing along with a small one in the introductory page: one for dodgeball, one for hockey, and one for gymnastics; each of the wall climbing, hockey, and skate programs had a paragraph of its program description (e.g., three paragraphs in total) that means more information spaces for those programs. However, soccer (Mauro, 2013;Ricatti & Klugman, 2013) or basketball that is considered as ethnic sports had only one paragraph for its program description in the brochure 1. All in all, Mini U programs seemly are designed for young White people with respect to types of programs and marketing tactics of the programs.…”

“…Citing Marx's dialectical materialism, Andrews and Giardina (2008) argue that people make their own working, leisure, political, religious, and sport lives not their own choices but under certain conditions in a particular social location. That is why there are so many 'ethnic' sport and recreation teams because racialized minorities have often been marginalized and excluded from the mainstream ones (Hay, Published by ECSDEV, Via dei Fiori, 34, 00172, Rome, Italy http://ecsdev.org 2011; Mauro, 2013); they gain a sense of belonging/security and ethnic pride and loyalty from their ethnic teams where they can resist power imbalance and negotiate spoiled identities (Bradbury, 2011;Mauro, 2013;Ricatti & Klugman, 2013;Rich, Misener, & Dubeau, 2015;Ugolotti, 2015). However, considering the social production of racism, we should keep in mind that "It was not black people who should be examined, but white society; it was not a case of educating blacks and whites for integration, but of fighting institutional racism; it was not race relations that was the field for study, but racism" (Bourne 1981, p. 339, as cited in Oliver, 1992.…”

Imagining a multicultural community in an everyday football carnival: Chants, identity and social resistance on Western Sydney terraces

“…Histories of xenophobia in Australia towards immigrants have always walked together with narratives of prejudice against their 'ethnic' game, or the 'round ball code' (Danforth, 2001;Ricatti and Klugman, 2013). It is not surprising then that a sporting code that has survived in the cultural margins of the country has become strongly connected with the ethnic communities of Western Sydney (Skinner et al, 2008) from which the Wanderers fan group is drawn.…”

‘Over the border and the gates’? Global and transnational sport

“…This is particularly evidenced in the outpour of research on athlete migration, which has received by far the maximum attention (Maguire and Pearton 2000;Maguire and Falcous 2010;Carter 2011;Agergaard and Tiesler 2014). Transnational fandom too has been a popular topic, with research involving actors and dynamics as diverse as English football clubs in Norway (Hognestad 2006), European football in Nigeria (Onwumechili and Oloruntola 2014), Italians settled in Sydney (Ricatti and Klugman 2013), South American migrants in Spain (Müller 2014), marketing a local team to Lusophone migrants in America (Moniz 2007) and local fans' response to foreign owners (Bi 2015).…”