Rethinking Sports and Integration

Name: Rethinking Sports and Integration
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Rethinking Sports and IntegrationDeveloping a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports\nAuthor(s): Sine Agergaard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138290624, 978-1138290624\nSynopsis\nRethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descendants. It examines the origins of this idea and the concept of integration, and analyzes the problems in focus, the methods applied and the results of sports-related integration programmes.\n\nThe text also redefines sports-related integration with perspectives from migration studies that highlight the super-diversity within migrant groups, and explore the various ways in which transnational connections influence participation in sport within migrant communities.\n\nThis book is important reading for students and researchers working in sport development, sport pol.