Migration, migrants and leisure: meaningful leisure?

Mata‐Codesal, Diana; Peperkamp, Esther; Tiesler, Nina-Clara

doi:10.1080/02614367.2015.992620

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“…Importantly, this study highlights the critical role of interactions among social structures, cultures, and individuals in potentially constructing people's meaning systems (including meaning-making through leisure) and lifestyles (including leisure styles). By acknowledging these phenomena, the benefits of leisure to help people find and actualize meanings in life can be better understood as an important way of developing a positive identity and coping with and adapting to acculturation stress of ethnic community members (Mata-Codesal et al, 2015).…”

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Role of leisure-generated meanings in adaptation to acculturation stress of Korean immigrants in Canada

Kim

Iwasaki

2016

Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure

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This study tests the hypothesis that leisure-generated meanings would buffer acculturation stress on the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of Korean immigrants (n = 120) in a western Canadian city. Analyses of survey data show that acculturation stress is significantly associated with lower life satisfaction and self-esteem, poorer mental health, and sociocultural adaptation. The study only supports the main effects of leisure-generated meanings on life satisfaction and self-esteem (as indicators of psychological adaptation), but not the leisure buffer model. All of the leisure adaptation meanings (i.e., leisure companionship, leisure mood enhancement, leisure palliative coping, leisure rejuvenation, and leisure adjustment) and most of the global leisure meanings (i.e., group harmony, leisure friendship, self-development, and ethnic identity) predict higher life satisfaction and self-esteem. The findings suggest that meaningmaking through leisure appears to be culturally contextualized and seems to be a significant predictor of effective psychological adaptation to acculturation stress. Implications and recommendations are discussed.

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Role of leisure-generated meanings in adaptation to acculturation stress of Korean immigrants in Canada

Kim

Iwasaki

2016

Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure

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“…the individuals' involvements in leisure activities and their satisfaction derived from them (Mannell & Kleiber, 1997;Parr & Lashua, 2004). More critical perspectives, however, have sought to go beyond the micro-levels of the personal experience of leisure and position it within the wider structural, political and historical contexts (Mata-Codesal, Peperkamp & Tiesler, 2015;Rojek, 2010;Stebbins, 2012Stebbins, , 2017). On the macro-level, leisure time and activities provide subjects with an opportunity to reformulate or resist prevailing modes of cultural formations.…”

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Leisure as a Space of Political Practice in Middle East Women Life Writings

Asl

2019

GEMA

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Middle East women's active participation in resisting against socio-political impositions and constraints has received scant attention in the existing scholarship within the field. Much of the literature is focused on the socially victimized, subjugated and passive state of the female subjects in facing patriarchal authoritarianism and repression. In contrast, this article aims at exploring the subjected women's investment in multifarious acts of resistance through their leisure time and practices. To this end, Foucault's notion of "counter-conduct," a mode of resistance to be governed differently, is used to examine women's leisure activities in Jean P.

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“…Like, this is my history as well, and I think that this is a really important, you know, part of our political identity as well as [ Senses of familial heritage were also used to explore wider issues of citizenship and community identity. The collective sense of participating in shared activities of leisure not only defines a community of belonging, but also facilitates the negotiation of individual and familial senses of place in the resident society (Mata-Codesal, Peperkamp and Tiesler 2015). These performances of connection, reinforcement or affirmation could also facilitate further performances of recognition, but also misrecognition.…”

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‘We are… we are everything’: the politics of recognition and misrecognition at immigration museums

Smith¹

2017

Mus. Soc.

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Qualitative interviews were undertaken with visitors at five museums that display the histories and experiences of immigration in the United States and Australia. This paper outlines the range of embodied performative practices of meaning making that visitors undertook during their visits and the meanings and political values that they created or reaffirmed in doing so. The key performance at these museums were the affirmation and reinforcement of familial, ethnic and national identities in which individuals explored the tensions between migrant identity and the nationalizing narratives of the resident nation. The performance of reinforcement could also be used to justify both politically progressive and conservative narratives of inclusion and exclusion. Building on performances of reinforcement some visitors also engaged in acts of justification, recognition and misrecognition. In illustrating and mapping out the range of banal and complex ways these museums were used by visitors, the paper argues that museums may be more usefully understood as arenas of justification rather than resources for public education.

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Migration, migrants and leisure: meaningful leisure?

Cited by 54 publications

References 8 publications

Role of leisure-generated meanings in adaptation to acculturation stress of Korean immigrants in Canada

Role of leisure-generated meanings in adaptation to acculturation stress of Korean immigrants in Canada

Leisure as a Space of Political Practice in Middle East Women Life Writings

‘We are… we are everything’: the politics of recognition and misrecognition at immigration museums

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