Migrants and sport: Football as an area for integration of refugees in Croatia
Integration of refugees is an area that has been raising a relatively insufficient research interest, especially in the countries of the Southeast Europe, where the refugees, in the sense of persons who have been seeking for or were granted the international protection after the year 2000,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2018/0350-08611803477J.pdf |
| Summary: | Integration of refugees is an area that has been raising a relatively
insufficient research interest, especially in the countries of the Southeast
Europe, where the refugees, in the sense of persons who have been seeking
for or were granted the international protection after the year 2000, and
based on the 1951 Refugee Convention, represent a new migrant community.
From the viewpoint of cultural anthropology and based on the qualitative
research conducted from spring 2015 to autumn 2017, in this paper I discuss
integration of refugees in Croatia through sport. The aim of the paper is to
explore, based on the case study of Football Club Zagreb 041, which
dimensions of integration participation in sport can have for persons that
are seeking for or were granted asylum in Croatia. In doing so, the paper
compares the results of other European empirical research with the ones
obtained in Croatia, and it also questions theses of some scholars on
questionable integrative role of sport, as well as the theses that sport is
more an area of creating distinction and status than an area for inclusion
and building social bridges between the host society and immigrants. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |