ReviewFrontiers in sports and active living2019
Sport, Refugees, and Forced Migration: A Critical Review of the Literature.
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- Fostering Equity in and Through Sport: A Content Analysis of Sports Policies for Migrants in Australia.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2026Article
- Sport for Development and Peace Reviews: A Systematic Scoping Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Forced migrant fathers' experiences of pregnancy and childbirth: a hermeneutic phenomenological study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Perspectives of stakeholders in Danish voluntary sports clubs on engaging in potential social prescribing programmes: a qualitative case study.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- From reductionism to complex systems: Paradigm shift and knowledge evolution in competitive sports research using BERTopic.PloS one · 2026Article
- The impact of sports participation on the social integration of China's migrant population: a serial mediation model of life satisfaction and subjective well-being.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- From exile to medal: psychosocial wellbeing, belonging, and global solidarity in the Refugee Olympic Team through an ACTM perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Navigating new spaces: the role of sports and leisure in the lives of Montréal's immigrant and refugee communities.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- When performance is not enough: elite sport systems during prolonged crises.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Facilitating research participation through a research navigator programme: researchers' insights from a project with asylum seekers and refugees.Conflict and health · 2025Article
- Sport as a social capital intervention promoting health and well-being for migrant youth in Australia.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Birthplace as a capital: migratory flow, labor opportunities, and social reproduction in Brazilian men elite futsal players' careers.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- Forced migration, resettlement, and sport: Lessons from the Kabul-Edmonton soccer team.International review for the sociology of sport · 2024Article
- Effects of a co-designed exercise and sport intervention on cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic syndrome components among individuals living in a refugee camp in Greece: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of migration and health · 2024Article
- Unveiling the urban sports landscape: Profiling participants, motives, and policy implications.PloS one · 2024Article
- Exploring the gap between refugee-background communities' needs and existing community-based physical activity programs in Australia.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- "Even Though We Have Different Colors, We Are All Equal Here": Immigrants building a sense of community and wellbeing through sport participation.Journal of community psychology · 2023Article
- Health needs and perception of health care quality among Asylum Seekers and Refugees in an Italian local health authority: A qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- (Not) being granted the right to belong-Amateur football clubs in Germany.International review for the sociology of sport · 2022Article
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Abstract
Researchers, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly pay attention to sport and physical activity as a means and context for refugee wellbeing and integration, influenced by wider political and policy concerns about forced migration. Considering this growing scholarly and policy attention, it is timely to take stock of, and critically reflect on, recent developments in this field of research. This paper offers an integrative, critical review of the scientific literature on the topic. It critically synthesizes what is known about the sport and physical activity experiences of people with refugee and forced migrant backgrounds, and identifies key issues and directions for future research in this field. This review of contemporary academic literature comprises 83 publications derived from fourteen languages published between 1996 and 2019. It shows a substantial increase in the volume of published research on the topic in recent years (2017-2019). Published research is concentrated primarily in Western countries around the themes of health promotion, integration and social inclusion, and barriers and facilitators to participation in sport and physical activity. The findings foreground the use of policy categories, deficit approaches, and intersectionalities as three pressing challenges in this area of research. Based on this synthesis, the authors identify four research gaps that require attention in future research: the experiential (embodied emotional) dimensions of sport and physical activity, the need to decolonize research, the space for innovative methodologies, and research ethics.
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