Moving towards social inclusion: Manager and staff perspectives on an award winning community sport and recreation program for immigrants

Forde, Shawn; Lee, Donna S.; Mills, Cathy; Frisby, Wendy

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2014.02.002

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“…Likewise, Theebom et al [22] have demonstrated how sports clubs cooperate positively in the processes of acquisition of social capital of the immigrant population and in the interaction of foreigners with the native members of society. Results that coincide with a study by Forde et al [66], which conclude that community sports programs prove to be important spaces for the social inclusion of the immigrant population; although Makarova and Herzog [63] express that such spaces will be effective as long as the immigrant population is prevented from living in segregation or marginalization during sports practice.…”

Section: Can Sport Help In the Social Inclusion Of The Immigrant Popusupporting

confidence: 73%

Immigration and Social Inclusion: Possibilities from School and Sports

Carter-Thuillier¹,

López-Pastor²,

Gallardo-Fuentes³

et al. 2018

Immigration and Development

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Immigration is a manifestation of cultural pluralism that crosses a transversal form, an important part of the western societies, generating consequences in political, social and cultural terms. Likewise, the evidence shows that the educational system attached to sport can be a positive context to promote inclusive processes associated to the immigrant population, due to its high social transcendence and its universal character. On the other hand, sports may act as a tool for social and cultural conflict if they focus on the imposition of a dominant culture or exacerbates the competitive sense. The present chapter has by objective to analyze the possibilities of sports as a tool for the social inclusion of the immigrant population, giving special emphasis to the educational options that were offered by the sport practice in the school context. To do this, it presents an important number of theoretical and empirical backgrounds associated with this topic, which will allow the reader to understand the existing relationship between sport, education and immigration, exposing their possible risks and virtues.

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Section: Can Sport Help In the Social Inclusion Of The Immigrant Popusupporting

confidence: 73%

Immigration and Social Inclusion: Possibilities from School and Sports

Carter-Thuillier¹,

López-Pastor²,

Gallardo-Fuentes³

et al. 2018

Immigration and Development

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“…Not least, sports-based interventions have been directed towards urban areas of exclusion (e.g. Bustad and Andrews 2017; Collins and Haudenhuyse 2015; Kelly 2011) and towards the inclusion of migrants (Agergaard, Michelsen la Cour, and Treumer Gregersen 2015;Forde et al 2015;Long, Hylton, and Spracklen 2014;Spracklen, Long, and Hylton 2015), involving civil society actors in welfare provision (Agergaard 2012;Ekholm 2016). Notably, participation in sport has been recognized as a path to inclusion (e.g.…”

Section: Sports-based Interventions: a Means Of Making Social Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although, through the focus on the role of sport in promoting social inclusion, ideals of integration have been noted to imply assimilation of the cultures and norms of mainstream society (cf. Ekholm and Dahlstedt 2017;Forde et al, 2015), thus reinforcing racial hierarchies and stigmatizing the already excluded youth (Hylton 2011;Long, Hylton, and Spracklen 2014;Spaaij et al 2016). In addition, it has been noted that children with migrant backgrounds have been included as the subjects of intervention in sports activities rather than as regular members of voluntary sports clubs in civil society (Agergaard, Michelsen la Cour, and Treumer Gregersen 2015).…”

Section: Sports-based Interventions: a Means Of Making Social Policymentioning

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Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

2019

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Absence from sport participation among girls from ethno-cultural minorities is often highlighted as an inclusion policy challenge. Based on 35 interviews with community sports coaches, managers and partners, we explore how the absence of girls is problematized in four Swedish sports-based interventions, focusing on how problems, as well as the means and the ends of social inclusion, are articulated. The girls are assessed as being in need of social change due to their alleged social exclusion. Absence is explained by “patriarchal norms” as well as by the introvert conduct of the girls themselves. Girls-only sports activities performed by female coaches as role models are described as a way for girls to gain social inclusion and to become emancipated from subjugating norms. In conclusion, participation in community sport is highlighted in discourse as crucial for adopting powers of emancipation. A similar discourse could be recognized elsewhere, inside and outside the realm of sport.

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“…With specific reference to sport as a means of inclusion, some problematic aspects regarding its potential have been identified. It is important to highlight the risk of inclusion in a sports context being seen as synonymous with adaptation (assimilation) to specific norms and to the pre-defined ideals of the majority, creating stereotypes of these groups, maintaining hierarchies, and excluding racialised groups (e.g., Forde, Lee, Mills, & Frisby, 2015;Hylton, 2011;Long, Hylton, & Spracklen, 2014;Spaaij et al, 2016). Furthermore, different types of inclusion have been identified, involving both the strengthening of bonds within groups, and thereby creating stronger boundaries against other groups (exclusive bonding), as well as the creation of bridging contacts between different groups (inclusive bridging) (Coakley, 2011).…”

Section: Social Inclusion and The Role Of Sportmentioning

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Football for Inclusion: Examining the Pedagogic Rationalities and the Technologies of Solidarity of a Sports-Based Intervention in Sweden

Ekholm

Dahlstedt

2017

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Sports practices have been emphasised in social policy as a means of responding to social problems. In this article we analyse a sports-based social intervention performed in a "socially vulnerable" area in Sweden. We examine the formation of includable citizens in this project, based on interviews with representatives involved in the project. The material is analysed from a governmentality perspective, focusing on how problems and solutions are constructed as being constitutive of each other. The focus of the analysis is on social solidarity and inclusion as contemporary challenges, and how sport, specifically football, is highlighted as a way of creating social solidarity through a pedagogic rationality-football as a means of fostering citizens according to specific ideals of solidarity and inclusion. The formation of solidarity appears not as a mutual process whereby an integrated social collective is created, but rather as a process whereby those affected by exclusion are given the opportunity to individually adapt to a set of Swedish norms, and to linguistic and cultural skills, as a means of reaching the "inside". Inclusion seems to be possible as long as the "excluded" adapt to the "inside", which is made possible by the sports-based pedagogy. In conclusion, social problems and social tensions are spatially located in "the Area" of "the City", whose social policy, of which this sports-based intervention is a part, maintains rather than reforms the social order that creates these very tensions.

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Moving towards social inclusion: Manager and staff perspectives on an award winning community sport and recreation program for immigrants

Cited by 51 publications

References 27 publications

Immigration and Social Inclusion: Possibilities from School and Sports

Immigration and Social Inclusion: Possibilities from School and Sports

Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

Football for Inclusion: Examining the Pedagogic Rationalities and the Technologies of Solidarity of a Sports-Based Intervention in Sweden

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