BOOK REVIEW: RETHINKING SPORTS AND INTEGRATION. DEVELOPING A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRANTS AND DESCENDANTS IN SPORTS

• Authors: Jacek Burski

Abstracts

EN

Sine Agergaard, the author of “Rethinking sports and integration. Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports”, is well known for her work in researches of migration, integration and social participation, especially in and by sport. In her previous researches she had used sport-based perspective to examine how migrants had integrated within hosting society, in what ways relations between newcomers, local communities and state institutions were established, and what were the social processes of migration with special focus on professionals as an actors and objects of these phenomena (Agergaard and Tiesler 2014; Agergaard et al. 2018; Agergaard 2017; Agergaard and Botelho 2014; Agergaard and la Cour 2012). She is also the co-founder and currently head of the International Network for research in Sport and Migration Issues. (spomi-net) In the mentioned works, Agergaard used different approaches and methods to examine both particular cases (like a problem of women professionals’ integration, ethnic minority into the field of Danish football) and transnational relations. Problems researched by the author refer to broader mosaic of interests tied up by the question: “How one can establish perspective on locally occurring but internationally connected migration-related phenomena in field of sport?” Summary of work (books and articles) establish Agergaard’s position as an expert in the field of migration and sport.

Keywords

EN

sociology of sport; migration; social integration

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Society Register
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 191-194

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Jacek Burski

• University of Lodz

References

• Agergaard, Sine. 2017. “Learning in Landscapes of Professional Sports: Transnational Perspectives on Talent Development and Migration into Danish Women’s Handball around the Time of the Financial Crisis, 2004–2012.” Sport in Society 20 (10): 1457–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2016.1221068.
• Agergaard, Sine. 2018. Rethinking Sports and Integration: Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports. Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.
• Agergaard, Sine, and Vera Botelho. 2014. “The Way out? African Players’ Migration to Scandinavian Women’s Football.” Sport in Society 17 (4): 523–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2013.815512.
• Agergaard, Sine, and Annette la Cour. 2012. “Governing Integration Through Sports.” Nordic Journal of Migration Research 2(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/v10202-011-0024-y
• Agergaard, Sine, Silke Dankers, Mette Munk, and Anne-Marie Elbe. 2018. “Understanding Implementation and Change in Complex Interventions. From Single- to Multi-Methodological Research on the Promotion of Youths’ Participation in Physical Education.” Sport in Society 21 (2): 314–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2017.1284804.
• Agergaard, Sine, and Nina Clara Tiesler, eds. 2014. Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge.
• Putnam, Robert D. 2001. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. 1. Touchstone ed. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/sr.2018.2.1.12

Biblioteka Nauki

1036497