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Rethinking Sports and Integration : Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (127 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351969093
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.483
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Objectives -- 1.2 Key concepts and perspectives -- 1.3 Contributions -- 1.4 Case in focus -- 1.5 Content -- 2 Defining sports-related integration and its shortcomings -- 2.1 The idea of societal unity -- 2.2 Political strategies: assimilation, integration and segregation -- 2.3 Shortcomings in the political belief in sports-related integration -- 2.4 Reconceptualizing integration -- 3 Evolving policies of sports-related integration -- 3.1 Europe as a destination for migration -- 3.2 From multiculturalism to civic integration policies -- 3.3 Evolving European policy of sports-related integration -- 3.4 Towards sports as social inclusion in competition states -- 4 Broadening the problem in focus -- 4.1 National focus on enhancing participation in sports -- 4.2 Problematization of Muslim girls and women in sports -- 4.3 Invisible problems of sports consumption and media -- 4.4 Diversity in sports coaching and leadership? -- 5 Rethinking programme techniques -- 5.1 Governmental funding -- 5.2 Top-down design of programmes -- 5.3 Measuring programme success -- 5.4 So what is the evidence? -- 6 Critiquing expectations of social capital in sports -- 6.1 The unified focus on social capital -- 6.2 Social capital according to Putnam -- 6.3 Bridging and bonding in ethnic mixed and minority clubs -- 6.4 Social capital and the options beyond -- 7 Applying diversity management -- 7.1 Diversity management -- 7.2 Supporting, accepting or rejecting diversity -- 7.3 Political reactions to women-only swimming -- 7.4 A relational perspective on diversity -- 8 Conclusion: recapitulating sports-related integration policies and programmes -- 8.1 Temporality of sports-related integration -- how to evolve? -- 8.2 Social relational integration in sports.
what are our guidelines? -- 8.3 Multi-level sports-related integration -- who takes the initiative? -- Index.
Summary: Examining the concept of integration in community sport, Rethinking Sports and Integration analyses the problems, methods, and results of sports-related integration programmes and explores how transnational connections influence participation in sport within migrant communities.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Objectives -- 1.2 Key concepts and perspectives -- 1.3 Contributions -- 1.4 Case in focus -- 1.5 Content -- 2 Defining sports-related integration and its shortcomings -- 2.1 The idea of societal unity -- 2.2 Political strategies: assimilation, integration and segregation -- 2.3 Shortcomings in the political belief in sports-related integration -- 2.4 Reconceptualizing integration -- 3 Evolving policies of sports-related integration -- 3.1 Europe as a destination for migration -- 3.2 From multiculturalism to civic integration policies -- 3.3 Evolving European policy of sports-related integration -- 3.4 Towards sports as social inclusion in competition states -- 4 Broadening the problem in focus -- 4.1 National focus on enhancing participation in sports -- 4.2 Problematization of Muslim girls and women in sports -- 4.3 Invisible problems of sports consumption and media -- 4.4 Diversity in sports coaching and leadership? -- 5 Rethinking programme techniques -- 5.1 Governmental funding -- 5.2 Top-down design of programmes -- 5.3 Measuring programme success -- 5.4 So what is the evidence? -- 6 Critiquing expectations of social capital in sports -- 6.1 The unified focus on social capital -- 6.2 Social capital according to Putnam -- 6.3 Bridging and bonding in ethnic mixed and minority clubs -- 6.4 Social capital and the options beyond -- 7 Applying diversity management -- 7.1 Diversity management -- 7.2 Supporting, accepting or rejecting diversity -- 7.3 Political reactions to women-only swimming -- 7.4 A relational perspective on diversity -- 8 Conclusion: recapitulating sports-related integration policies and programmes -- 8.1 Temporality of sports-related integration -- how to evolve? -- 8.2 Social relational integration in sports.

what are our guidelines? -- 8.3 Multi-level sports-related integration -- who takes the initiative? -- Index.

Examining the concept of integration in community sport, Rethinking Sports and Integration analyses the problems, methods, and results of sports-related integration programmes and explores how transnational connections influence participation in sport within migrant communities.

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