Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games

Turcott, Ryan; Ariyo, Emma S.

doi:10.1080/17430437.2022.2017828

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“…While the above articles have mainly focused on individual athletes, less recognition has been given to the institutionalized mediatization of “refugee athletes”. Analysing representations of the ROT in international news media between 2015 and 2021, Turcott and Ariyo (2022) identify three frames: 1. The Flat Frame encompassing the majority of news coverage of the ROT (40%) that does not mention the “refugee crisis”; 2.…”

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“…Disrupting the Crisis Frame in which primary attention was paid to the “refugee story” of ROT athletes (the least identified frame, in 25% of the articles). The latter frame is the only one where normative coverage of the “refugee crisis” is disturbed and more critical analyses are offered (Turcott & Ariyo, 2022). Our article demonstrates how, as in other areas, sports institutions appear keen to follow and reinforce these manifestations and changes in societal discourse, both in content and approach.…”

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Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games

Burdsey

Michelini

Agergaard

2022

Communication & Sport

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Following the global “refugee crisis” of 2015, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), providing opportunities for refugee athletes to compete at the 2016 and 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics. To examine the changing intertwinements between wider social dynamics and mediated constructions of refugees, this article considers the IOC’s representation of the ROT around the 2020 Games. With this aim, a catalogue of articles published on the IOC’s website was examined through critical discourse analysis. Four discursive themes emerged: 1. The saving, healing and transformative power of Western sporting capital and the Olympic Games; 2. The ROT as epitome of the Global North’s inclusivity and benevolence; 3. Refugee athletes as offering hope and inspiration to other refugees; and 4. The neoliberal ideal that “hard work pays off” and “you can overcome everything” in and through sport. More broadly, current changes in the societal reception of refugees were evident in the IOC’s communication, which appeared to assume that we have moved beyond the “refugee crisis”. The IOC disseminates an “official” discourse, which elides the challenging structural conditions that refugees face after their arrival in receiving contexts, and obscures current political reluctance towards finding more long-term solutions for refugees.

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Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games

Burdsey

Michelini

Agergaard

2022

Communication & Sport

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“…In sport, there is a growing prevalence of forced athlete migration, and in some cases, athletes are either granted asylum or refugee status to compete once leaving their homeland. In 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) created an Olympic refugee team to afford these individuals opportunity to compete in international competition (Turcott and Ariyo, 2021). Rather than participating in the Olympics for a specific country, these individuals competed under the IOC flag and represented themselves.…”

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Sport, migration and diaspora: the case of Ivorian track and field athletes

Butler,

Aicher,

Vahoua

et al. 2024

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PurposeThis study focused on Ivorian track and field athletes who were current or former members of the Ivorian national team to understand athletes’ experiences with migration, diaspora and sport.Design/methodology/approachParticipatory action research (PAR) methodology was used in this research study (Lenette and Nesvaderani, 2021). According to Schinke and Blodgett (2016), PAR is a type of qualitative research used to engage the researcher and researched. The researcher and researched work together to understand the issues of a situation and communicate a plan to work toward resolving those issues (Kemmis et al., 2014). Using PAR helped to engage multiple people in the study, and as more research studies explore forced migration and sport, more scholars are starting to lean on the methodology to create a more diverse perspective and to include marginalized populations in the world of scholarly research (Stone, 2018; Robinson et al., 2019).FindingsKey findings illustrate Ivorian athletes’ ability to forge a bond that transcended tribal and political differences through geographical proximity and sport opportunity, allowing them to (re)connect with their Ivorian diaspora by representing the national team.Originality/valueThis research paper expands on past studies in sport and migration by showcasing the fluid nature of how diaspora constructs an athlete’s national identity once they are forced to leave their homeland.

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De Martini Ugolotti

2024

Music, Forced Migration and Emplacement

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Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games

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Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games

Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games

Sport, migration and diaspora: the case of Ivorian track and field athletes

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