Insights from Immigrant and Refugee Youth on Resilience through Sport Participation during Adaption to a New Country

Kaya, Adem; Faulkner, Paula E.; Baber, Ceola Ross; Rotich, Jerono P.

doi:10.1080/15562948.2021.1890303

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“…Several concrete suggestions were made to promote mutual understanding between the two communities, such as creating venues for cross-cultural activities for youth and neighborhood activism for adults. Youth-focused community building can be effective to bridge the new locals and old locals as shown in examples of sport participation (Spaaij 2015; Kaya et al 2022; Bradbury 2011; St. John 2009). Developing a sense of belonging and perceived community support will continue to be a critical factor for building resilience among refugee children (Pieloch, McCullough, and Marks 2016).…”

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Resettled Refugees and African Americans in the Same Neighborhoods: Insights for Intergroup Dynamics and Multicultural Community Building

Lee,

Disney

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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After resettlement, refugees are situated to navigate new environments and social relationships with nonrefugee residents in the United States. This study focuses on the intergroup dynamics between refugees and native African American residents with whom refugees often share spatial boundaries in urban neighborhoods. Based on 30 in-depth interviews in Albany, NY and Clarkson, GA, our findings suggest that both groups share the experiences of social marginalization and disadvantageous neighborhood factors. On the other hand, each group differed in their views on the police and the type of poverty that they deal with. Although two groups rarely collaborated, solidarity was deemed possible and desirable. Several suggestions for community building were made, including cross-cultural activities for youth and neighborhood activism for adults. Future research can examine the space-making and rights-seeking processes of resettled refugees in the context of urban poverty and in their relation to other locals.

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Resettled Refugees and African Americans in the Same Neighborhoods: Insights for Intergroup Dynamics and Multicultural Community Building

Lee,

Disney

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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“…Kaya et al (2021) found however, that immigrant and young refugees did not have long term goals for participation in such projects but participated in sport because they viewed it as a fun activity that gave them an opportunity to interact with others in an enjoyable way. SfD programs targeting refugees may often have the same goals as cited above, but also may have been created to offer a respite from boredom, to foster a sense of belonging and to contribute to social inclusion and to wellbeing (Doidge, Keech, and Sandri 2020;Kaya et al 2021;Michelini 2021;Olliff 2008;Stone 2018;Wells and Welty Peachey 2016). Spaaij et al (2019) have argued that the emotional aspects of sport participation are a key area requiring more research in SfD and forced migration studies.…”

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“…Scholarship focusing on SfD projects, including those for refugees, reveals that the focus of many such projects has often been on the learning of sport skills, on using sport to develop life skills, on empowerment, on guiding youth towards sport club membership, on enhancing the integration of refugees into the country where the refugees hope to live/settle and on contributing to the wellbeing of participants (Kaya et al 2021;Kidd 2011;Schulenkorf, Sherry, and Rowe 2016;Spaaij and Jeanes 2013;Spaaij et al 2019;Válková 2021;Welty Peachey and Burton 2017;Welty Peachey, Schulenkorf, and Hill 2020;Zipp, Smith, and Darnell 2019). Kaya et al (2021) found however, that immigrant and young refugees did not have long term goals for participation in such projects but participated in sport because they viewed it as a fun activity that gave them an opportunity to interact with others in an enjoyable way. SfD programs targeting refugees may often have the same goals as cited above, but also may have been created to offer a respite from boredom, to foster a sense of belonging and to contribute to social inclusion and to wellbeing (Doidge, Keech, and Sandri 2020;Kaya et al 2021;Michelini 2021;Olliff 2008;Stone 2018;Wells and Welty Peachey 2016).…”

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Leaders building relationships with young refugees during a sport project

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Knoppers

2021

Sport in Society

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The focus of this paper is to examine how social work students (SWs) attempted to enact social work principles to engage in relationship building with young refugees during a Sport for Development project. The project, 'U on Board' was built on the assumption that pleasure and enjoyment in physical activity could contribute to the wellbeing of participants. The project took place at a refugee centre in a Dutch midsized city. We drew on Foucauldian notions of pastoral power and dressage to analyze how SWs applied social work principles to engage in relationship building with participating refugees. The Foucauldian based analysis revealed the SWs built positive relationships with the refugees by applying principles they had learned in their social work education through the disciplining power of dressage and of pastoral power.Recent reviews of Sport for Development (SfD) research and sport and forced migration studies found that most of the scholarly attention has focused on the objectives and content of such programs with few if any, focusing specifically on the congruency between the objectives of the program and the skill set of those who offer or lead the sport activities 1 (Schulenkorf, Sherry, and Rowe 2016;Spaaij et al. 2019). Based on their review and critique of core pedagogical strategies used in SfD initiatives, Spaaij and Jeanes (2013) suggested that establishing and maintaining positive relationships between those offering a project (leaders) and those young people for whom the project is earmarked should be a primary goal of such programs. Scholarly explorations of skills that may enable leaders/workers to engage in relationship building in SfD projects have however, received relatively little scholarly attention. [End note: In this paper, we refer to those working with participants in these programs as leaders.]Although those who work in SfD projects may possess the physical expertise to transmit sport skills to participants, leaders may overlook the needs of participants in SfD projects or focus on objectives such as working towards sport club membership and developing competitive sport skills (e.g. Waardenburg et al. 2019). Sport professionals are educated to teach sport skills but may not have the necessary expertise in working with youth such as young refugees. In contrast, relationship building is a core objective of social work and its

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“…Although the ways dressage function in social work education has not been the focus of available research, it has been used in research exploring how education disciplines students in various ways. For example, Rutherford et al (2015) explored how student teachers learned to enact being a teacher and concluded that the concept of dressage aptly described how Scholarship focusing on SfD projects, including those for refugees, reveals that the focus of many such projects has often been on the learning of sport skills, on using sport to develop life skills, on empowerment, on guiding youth towards sport club membership, on enhancing the integration of refugees into the country where the refugees hope to live/ settle and on contributing to the wellbeing of participants (Kaya et al, 2022;Kidd, 2011;Schulenkorf et al, 2016;Spaaij & Jeanes, 2013;Spaaij et al, 2019;Válková, 2021;Welty Peachey & Burton, 2017;Welty Peachey et al, 2020;Zipp et al, 2019). Kaya et al (2022) found however, that immigrant and young refugees did not have long term goals for participation in such projects but participated in sport because they viewed it as a fun activity that gave them an opportunity to interact with others in an enjoyable way.…”

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Understanding youth in sport

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In my dissertation, I challenged several modes of thought about youth sports and their practices. I purposely chose to explore practices and activities that vary greatly: resistance to competitive sport and the oft-invisible processes that are part of unorganised sports and of organised sports. Instead of drawing on commonly used post-positivist frameworks, I described an alternative way to study youth sport. In doing so, I gave participants a voice and contributed to the theorising of youth sport. A showed how variety in the use of theories, especially those that provide insight into the complex practices of youth sport such as the application of tools based of a Foucauldian approach to reality, can be used to develop policy and change practices that currently may result in youths dropping out, being exploited or abused or missing pleasure in participation. Because youth sport is considered to be an important contributor to the development of youths in society, research and theorising need to go beyond investigating outcomes and, instead, critically examine its complexities. The various studies in my dissertation revealed how a Foucauldian lens can be used to investigate youth sport practices and what this lens has to offer to scholars, administrators and policymakers to enhance their understanding and ability to respond to issues in youth sport.

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Insights from Immigrant and Refugee Youth on Resilience through Sport Participation during Adaption to a New Country

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Resettled Refugees and African Americans in the Same Neighborhoods: Insights for Intergroup Dynamics and Multicultural Community Building

Resettled Refugees and African Americans in the Same Neighborhoods: Insights for Intergroup Dynamics and Multicultural Community Building

Leaders building relationships with young refugees during a sport project

Understanding youth in sport

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