Youth sport, migration and culture: two football teams and the changing face of Ireland

Curran, Conor

doi:10.1080/14660970.2019.1687138

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“…Football as a site of free expression of the body and identity offered participants the opportunity to perform belonging to a global 'imagined community' (Anderson, 2006): that of those who love and play the game of football. Not dissimilarly to what Mauro (2019) has pointed out in his study, I observed that this mode of belonging came through the re-enactment of skills or celebrations they saw on TV or on the internet. Bamba would celebrate his goals with the 'dab', the distinctive celebration of the French international Paul Pogba, while Musa would try the 'step overs' in training sessions like his favourite player, Cristiano Ronaldo.…”

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Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy

Genovesi

2023

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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As radical right parties capitalise on the salience of immigration among the Italian public, this paper explores solidarity grassroots football as a unique lens to investigate how people seeking asylum resist the effects of policies and discourses of exclusion, and develop senses of belonging in the microscale of their day-to-day lives. Sport and migration studies researchers have primarily considered policy-based questions (e.g. how can sport facilitate integration?). In shifting the focus from integration to belonging, this ethnographic study engages with the embodied and affective experiences of individuals seeking asylum. Employing the analytical framework for the study of belonging advanced by Yuval-Davis and integrated by Antonsich, four themes are discussed: the agency of people seeking asylum in appropriating football to nurture a positive sense of self; the emergence of the material environment of sporting activities as a space of belonging; the negotiation of belonging within and beyond the team; and the local neighbourhood as possible trait d’union between sport-specific attachments and belonging to the wider community. The article contends that involvement in solidarity grassroots football can provide people seeking asylum with opportunities for belonging that go beyond the momentary, and play a vital role in resisting the liminality imposed by autochthonic politics of belonging.

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Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy

Genovesi

2023

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Youth sport, migration and culture: two football teams and the changing face of Ireland

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Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy

Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy

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