Refugee youth, belonging and community sport

@article{Spaaij2015RefugeeYB,
  title={Refugee youth, belonging and community sport},
  author={Ram{\'o}n Spaaij},
  journal={Leisure Studies},
  year={2015},
  volume={34},
  pages={303 - 318}
}
  • R. Spaaij
  • Published 9 February 2015
  • Sociology
  • Leisure Studies
This article examines community sport as a site where refugee youth negotiate belonging, which is conceptualised as a dynamic dialectic of ‘seeking’ and ‘granting’. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork among Somali Australian youth at community football (soccer) clubs in Melbourne, the article identifies the kinds of belonging that are constructed by refugee youth in community sport, the social processes that facilitate or impede these belongings, and the forms of boundary work… 
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