Sine Agergaard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 202650 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sine Agergaard |
| PRENOMES | Sine |
| SOBRENOME | Agergaard |
| ASSINATURA | AGERGAARD S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2658-8933 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 248 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Embodied well-being
The well-being of children and adolescents is debated globally, and school settings constitute important sites in which well-being is lived and managed. In contemporary well-being debates, schoolchildren’s embodied experiences receive little attention, and well-being is often treated as synonymous with mental health. In this study, we explore and conceptualize embodied well-being in everyday school settings. While Danish media discussed a proclai…
Family coaching
In Denmark, as in other countries, policymakers and municipalities seek to promote leisure-time physical activity among children and adolescents. However, many initiatives focus on the individual child, overlooking the role of parents in children’s leisure practices. In contrast, a system-oriented family coaching approach was developed as part of an intervention aimed at involving parents in supporting their children’s leisure-time physical activ…
Unpacking tensions in community capacity building
Community capacity building is widely regarded as a valuable approach in health promotion and applied across diverse contexts. However, there is a lack of research in applying community capacity building to promote leisure-time physical activity among children and adolescents. This study aimed to build community capacity to develop leisure-time physical activities for children and adolescents in public housing areas. In this article we examine ho…
Paying attention to tension
Collaborations between public institutions and civil society organisations are popular. One such context for public-civil collaboration is rehabilitation, where health care institutions and sports clubs collaborate in supporting physical activity for people with non-communicable diseases. More specifically, our study involves health care workers, sports club volunteers, and people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), whose perspectives on physic…
Doing physical activity or not
According to biomedical notions, physical activity (PA) is an integral part of treatment for several non-communicable diseases, Type 2 diabetes (T2D) among them. Adapting one’s life in accordance with such notions, however, involves considerations that reach beyond what can be confined to treatment decisions. Thus, we aim to explore the various reasons for doing PA or not among healthcare workers and people with T2D taking part in programs that p…
What is the meaning of PE? Exploring the influence of an educational curriculum approach on students’ participation and non-participation in physical education
There is evidence that the longstanding multi-activity sport-based approach to physical education (PE) limits the opportunities for students to participate in and learn from PE. Furthermore, studies of educational approaches to PE have identified a willingness to re-orientate and re-structure PE by exploring diverse ways of learning in, through and about movement. This study endeavours to advance this issue through an empirical analysis of how an…
Rights-based Youth Sport
Participating in organized club sport constitutes a vital part of many young people's lives. This is particularly true in the Nordic countries, where almost all children have spent time in sport clubs at the point of reaching youth Sport participation thus plays an important role in making friends and being included in social networks Being 'good at sport' is also often attributed to high social status among peers, especially for boys In addition…
Supporting adolescents' leisure time physical activity in low‐income areas
In low‐income communities, there is often a lack of resources and facilities for adolescents to engage in organized sports and leisure time physical activity. Therefore, different intervention strategies have been applied to promote physical activity. Yet, a systematic overview of the experiences of those involved in the interventions is lacking. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative systematic review was to synthesize participating adolescents',…
Navigating Public Urban (Green) Space – An Analysis of Ethnic “Other” Women’s Walking Activities in Denmark
Globally, walking is the most popular leisure time physical activity (LTPA) among adults. Yet, navigating public spaces might pose distinct challenges for ethnic “Other” women, whose bodies and veiling practices have come under scrutiny in Western societies. Based on an ethnographic study of a walking group with ethnic “Other” women living in a deprived area of a Danish city, this article explores how the women negotiated being physically active …
Children's Rights to and in Sport
It has long been stated that children have the rights to protection from, e.g., abuse and to the provision of age-appropriate leisure, play, and recreational activities along with participation in all matters that concerns them. Yet, the full range of children's rights to and in sport has not yet been explored in detail. To do so, it is relevant to turn to the Scandinavian countries, which are praised for promoting children's rights and well-bein…
Young refugees' experiences of accumulating horizontal and vertical social capital through organised and informal sports
For the last 20 years, Putnam's conceptualisations of bonding and bridging social capital have become a common reference for policies and programmes that seek to promote integration in and through sports. However, few researchers have looked beyond face-to-face interactions to how sports may develop migrants' relations to formal associations, institutions, and agencies in civil society. In this article, we aim to explore how young refugees accumu…
Moving beyond skills acquisition
In the last few decades, there has been a movement from individualistic and mechanistic notions of learning to approaches that turn attention to the significance of the context of learning. While these approaches have been utilized to point out the significance of the environment for skill acquisition, they have primarily been oriented towards performance-oriented milieus. Inspired by the theory of situated learning in “communities of practice” (…
CrossFit during lockdown. The promises and pitfalls of digitally mediated training for leisure-time physical activity
The COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide lockdowns and rigid measures of social distancing in Denmark. Such a situation provides the unique opportunity to study interruptions in training routines and scrutinise the significance of physical attendance, face-to-face interactions and collective engagement for sport and leisure-time physical activity. Drawing on Randall Collins’ micro-sociological theory of ‘Interaction Ritual Chains’, this article fo…
Rethinking the Vulnerability of Groups Targeted in Health-Promoting Sports and Physical Activity Programs
Vulnerability and related terms are increasingly used to describe the target groups of health-promoting programs involving sports and physical activity. Yet, such terms are often left undefined, creating an image of vulnerability that reinforces the health inequities the programs seek to counter. This article aims to reconceptualize vulnerability to help researchers and program personnel describe and support individuals and groups in vulnerable p…
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity
Taking Steven Vertovec's concept of Superdiversity as a starting point, this special issue examines the dynamic interaction of diversity variables in the field of sport and migration issues. The articles published this Speical Issue span from studies on sports labor migration ( sports as migration) to consideration of the role sport plays in the everyday lives of disparate groups of migrants ( sport in migration). Considering the contemporary div…
Women-only swimming as a space of belonging
The female Muslim body has come under close political and public scrutiny in many Western societies. Within sport, too, Muslim women’s dress and practices have become topics of discussion. For example, gender-segregated swimming sessions catering for Muslim women have caused disputes in several European countries, including Denmark. Nevertheless, the perspectives of participants are absent in such discussions and research about the significance o…
The quest for health and the unhealthy ‘others’. A critical case study of Syrian women newcomers’ meeting with health promotion and civic integration discourses upon arrival in Denmark
Increasingly restrictive immigration policies and political attention to newcomers’ civic integration currently intersect with the individualisation of the responsibility for health care and health promotion in Western societies. We aim to examine how such policies shape women newcomers’ perceptions of health and experiences of civic health promoting activities in the first years after granted asylum and temporary residence permit in Denmark. Dra…
Newly arrived refugees’ perception of health and physical activity in Denmark
Refugees health status after receiving asylum in their new country is often poor, both physical and mentally. Despite that, European countries rarely offer programmes specifically targeted health and health behaviour for newly arrived refugees. This study investigated newly arrived refugees' perspective on health and in particularly physical activity (PA) upon granted asylum in Denmark. A transnational migration perspective provides the theoretic…
Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games
Following the global “refugee crisis” of 2015, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), providing opportunities for refugee athletes to compete at the 2016 and 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics. To examine the changing intertwinements between wider social dynamics and mediated constructions of refugees, this article considers the IOC’s representation of the ROT around the 2020 Games. With this aim, a catalog…
Swimming as self-care - A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women
This article scrutinises the highly contested, yet largely unexplored space of gender-segregated swimming that caters for Muslim women. Combining participant observation of weekly women-only swimming sessions with interviews of regular participants, the aim of this paper was to shed light on the 'non-White' space of women-only swimming and explore the lived experiences of Danish Muslim women within this specific setting. Drawing on a Foucauldian …
The missing children
Talent identification and development systems represent a range of activities involving the detection, identification and selection of children as talents in sport. The process of identifying talents within football has been extensively researched, and several literature reviews have aimed to streamline talent systems and predict athletes’ capability. This review investigates the nature and extent of research to critically assess talent identific…
I’m nearly as active as the boys who play football’
Polarisation between the least and most active pupils is increasing both in Denmark and worldwide, and the least active pupils often have poorer mental health and low physical self-esteem. However, the least active pupils’ perspectives on physical activity in school are underrepresented in the research. This study explores how the least active pupils describe the purpose of physical activity at school and how active they consider themselves to be…
Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter
2021). Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter: introduction to the special issue. European Journal for Sport and Society: Vol. 18, Special Issue on Sport, Race and Ethnicity at a time of multiple global crises. Guest Editors: Adam B. Evans, Sine Agergaard, Paul Ian Campbell, Kevin Hylton & Verena Lenneis, pp. 187-191
Migrant athletes and the transformation of physical capital. Spatial and temporal dynamics in West African footballers’ approaches to post-careers
For many young people from the Global South football labour \nmigration to Europe fuels hopes of social mobility. However, the \nlong-term value of an international career is uncertain. Despite \nthe success of a few migrant role models, professional careers in \nEurope often go along with a number of social and economic \nchallenges for migrants that hinder sufficient preparations for \npost-career life courses. In this article, we focus on reti…
Black Lives Matter
Debates around race, ethnicity, and indigeneity, whether related to sport or society in general, are far from new. Yet in recent times, such debates have gained new urgency due to the Black Lives M
Re-Investing Authenticity
Ambivalent Precarity
Transnational migrants are often considered to be the core of the new global precariat. On the one hand, migrants are particularly likely to become precariats, due to the outsourcing of precarious work to migrant workers and the attribution of precarious citizenship status to migrants. On the other hand, labor migrants’ accounts show that this precarity is not exclusively based on oppression, misery, and exploitation, but that labor migration is …
The ball and the rhythm in her blood
This article provides an analysis of how Nigerian women migrants are represented and constructed as racial others by officials in the Scandinavian football clubs that recruit and employ them. Situated against scholarship on race, gender, and sport, within and outside the Scandinavian region, we highlight consistencies in stereotypical representations of black athletes. We use theories of racialisation to draw attention to how ideas about race and…
Migration and Career Transitions in Professional Sports
With rising globalization and professionalization within sports, athletes are increasingly migrating across national borders to take up work, and their athletic and nonathletic development is thereby shaped and lived in different countries. Through the analysis of interviews with female professional transnational athletes, this article contextualizes and discusses arguments for developing an interdisciplinary framework to account for lived experi…
Moving for the love of the game? International migration of female footballers into Scandinavian countries
This study examines the international migration of female footballers; a topic not yet addressed by the literature on globalization and sports labour migration. The article aims to shed light upon how the movement of female footballers across countries and continents is developing and to uncover the players’ motives for playing abroad. The theoretical underpinning comes from both conventional and alternative critical views of sports as labour. Th…
Black Lives Matter
Debates around race, ethnicity, and indigeneity, whether related to sport or society in general, are far from new. Yet in recent times, such debates have gained new urgency due to the Black Lives M
Migrant athletes and the transformation of physical capital. Spatial and temporal dynamics in West African footballers’ approaches to post-careers
For many young people from the Global South football labour \nmigration to Europe fuels hopes of social mobility. However, the \nlong-term value of an international career is uncertain. Despite \nthe success of a few migrant role models, professional careers in \nEurope often go along with a number of social and economic \nchallenges for migrants that hinder sufficient preparations for \npost-career life courses. In this article, we focus on reti…
Producing mobility through locality and visibility
To date, studies of sports labour migration have afforded little attention to analyses of how individual athletes relate to historical and macro- structural power relations and forces. In this article, we set out to develop a transnational perspective on sports labour migration, focusing particularly on migrants' achievement and maintenance of mobility as a key constituting factor in migratory movements. We argue that athletic mobility is an on-g…
Enacting and resisting the politics of belonging through leisure. The debate about gender-segregated swimming sessions targeting Muslim women in Denmark
In 2016 women-only swimming sessions targeting Muslims made the headlines in the Danish media, precipitating great discussion about whether such sessions contributed to or impeded social integration. This article focuses on the debate in the city council of Aarhus concerning women-only swimming activities that had existed for 10 years and had been well attended. Yet, after a year of discussion, the city council voted for a municipality-wide ban o…
The dream of social mobility
The purpose of this essay is to inquire into the prospects of social mobility among young ethnic minority males who are at the start of their career in Danish football clubs. The essay is based on a local field study which involved interviews with 10 talented ethnic minority players, and eight coaches and club leaders in two ethnic minority clubs, three clubs that we refer to as transit clubs, and one premier league club in a Danish provincial ci…
Elite Athletes as Migrants in Danish Women's Handball
A number of studies have been done on the migration of male athletes in well-known sport disciplines such as football. However, we lack knowledge about migration in smaller sport disciplines and about female athletes as sport migrants. The present article examines first of all the growing number of foreign players in the Danish women's handball league from 1999 to 2007. Second, the athletes' motives for moving to Danish handball clubs are categor…
Swimming as self-care - A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women
This article scrutinises the highly contested, yet largely unexplored space of gender-segregated swimming that caters for Muslim women. Combining participant observation of weekly women-only swimming sessions with interviews of regular participants, the aim of this paper was to shed light on the 'non-White' space of women-only swimming and explore the lived experiences of Danish Muslim women within this specific setting. Drawing on a Foucauldian …
Politicisation of migrant leisure
Using the perspective of governmentality this article aims to contribute to an understanding of the rationalities of specific political interventions, and the techniques used to monitor the leisure activities of particular target groups. This process of politicization is revealed here through a case study of an intervention that provides sporting activities in holiday periods for migrant children and adolescents living in so-called socially disad…
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity
Taking Steven Vertovec's concept of Superdiversity as a starting point, this special issue examines the dynamic interaction of diversity variables in the field of sport and migration issues. The articles published this Speical Issue span from studies on sports labor migration ( sports as migration) to consideration of the role sport plays in the everyday lives of disparate groups of migrants ( sport in migration). Considering the contemporary div…
Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter
2021). Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter: introduction to the special issue. European Journal for Sport and Society: Vol. 18, Special Issue on Sport, Race and Ethnicity at a time of multiple global crises. Guest Editors: Adam B. Evans, Sine Agergaard, Paul Ian Campbell, Kevin Hylton & Verena Lenneis, pp. 187-191
Established – outsider relations in youth football tournaments
This article examines Scandinavian constructions and readings of potential football migrants from the African continent by providing an investigation of the dynamics and narratives surrounding African football teams’ participation in three youth football tournaments. Drawing on Elias and Scotson’s (1965/1994) theory of established-outsider relations, we explore the transnational power relations and processes of inclusion and exclusion in group re…
Children's Rights to and in Sport
It has long been stated that children have the rights to protection from, e.g., abuse and to the provision of age-appropriate leisure, play, and recreational activities along with participation in all matters that concerns them. Yet, the full range of children's rights to and in sport has not yet been explored in detail. To do so, it is relevant to turn to the Scandinavian countries, which are praised for promoting children's rights and well-bein…
Young refugees' experiences of accumulating horizontal and vertical social capital through organised and informal sports
For the last 20 years, Putnam's conceptualisations of bonding and bridging social capital have become a common reference for policies and programmes that seek to promote integration in and through sports. However, few researchers have looked beyond face-to-face interactions to how sports may develop migrants' relations to formal associations, institutions, and agencies in civil society. In this article, we aim to explore how young refugees accumu…
Governing Integration through Sports
This article problematises the increasing involvement of non-state actors (in particular Danish civil sports associations) in the conduct of integration policy. Based on a case study the article describes how the involved public authorities and non-state actors represent the problem (and aim) of enhancing ethnic integration through sports. The concept of assemblage is used to highlight the heterogeneity of the rationalities and resources that mer…
CrossFit during lockdown. The promises and pitfalls of digitally mediated training for leisure-time physical activity
The COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide lockdowns and rigid measures of social distancing in Denmark. Such a situation provides the unique opportunity to study interruptions in training routines and scrutinise the significance of physical attendance, face-to-face interactions and collective engagement for sport and leisure-time physical activity. Drawing on Randall Collins’ micro-sociological theory of ‘Interaction Ritual Chains’, this article fo…
The missing children
Talent identification and development systems represent a range of activities involving the detection, identification and selection of children as talents in sport. The process of identifying talents within football has been extensively researched, and several literature reviews have aimed to streamline talent systems and predict athletes’ capability. This review investigates the nature and extent of research to critically assess talent identific…
The Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in Physical Education
Existing research on inclusion and exclusion processes in physical education (PE) has particularly focused on exclusion from PE as something being done to students and attributed to specific social categories such as (female) gender, (low) physical skills or (minority) ethnic background. This article aims to develop a social-relational perspective on inclusion and exclusion processes defined as students’ participation or non-participation in PE i…
Supporting adolescents' leisure time physical activity in low‐income areas
In low‐income communities, there is often a lack of resources and facilities for adolescents to engage in organized sports and leisure time physical activity. Therefore, different intervention strategies have been applied to promote physical activity. Yet, a systematic overview of the experiences of those involved in the interventions is lacking. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative systematic review was to synthesize participating adolescents',…
Rethinking the Vulnerability of Groups Targeted in Health-Promoting Sports and Physical Activity Programs
Vulnerability and related terms are increasingly used to describe the target groups of health-promoting programs involving sports and physical activity. Yet, such terms are often left undefined, creating an image of vulnerability that reinforces the health inequities the programs seek to counter. This article aims to reconceptualize vulnerability to help researchers and program personnel describe and support individuals and groups in vulnerable p…
Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games
Following the global “refugee crisis” of 2015, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), providing opportunities for refugee athletes to compete at the 2016 and 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics. To examine the changing intertwinements between wider social dynamics and mediated constructions of refugees, this article considers the IOC’s representation of the ROT around the 2020 Games. With this aim, a catalog…
Dansk kvindehåndbold i medierne
Sine Agergaard: Danish women’s handball and the media: from iron ladies to little girls The media have been interested in the Danish national women’s handball team since the beginning of the 1990s because the team has brought back international victories. However, an analysis of the two latest international sports events in women’s handball reveals a shift in the depiction of the Danish national team. At the European championships (Euro 2002), th…
Sport as social formation and specialist education
Udgivelsesdato: november
Dualities of Space in Danish Sports History
In this article, inspiration from the work of the human geographers John Bale and Yi-Fu Tuan is combined with an ethnographic perspective on sporting spaces as historical landscapes. The ethnographic study of Danish sports history is developed via insights derived from the work of the British anthropologist Tim Ingold who suggests that we should reflect on the way in which history is ‘lived’ in specific landscapes. More precisely, this article su…
Elite Athletes as Migrants in Danish Women's Handball
A number of studies have been done on the migration of male athletes in well-known sport disciplines such as football. However, we lack knowledge about migration in smaller sport disciplines and about female athletes as sport migrants. The present article examines first of all the growing number of foreign players in the Danish women's handball league from 1999 to 2007. Second, the athletes' motives for moving to Danish handball clubs are categor…
The dream of social mobility
The purpose of this essay is to inquire into the prospects of social mobility among young ethnic minority males who are at the start of their career in Danish football clubs. The essay is based on a local field study which involved interviews with 10 talented ethnic minority players, and eight coaches and club leaders in two ethnic minority clubs, three clubs that we refer to as transit clubs, and one premier league club in a Danish provincial ci…
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Re-Investing Authenticity
Moving for the love of the game? International migration of female footballers into Scandinavian countries
This study examines the international migration of female footballers; a topic not yet addressed by the literature on globalization and sports labour migration. The article aims to shed light upon how the movement of female footballers across countries and continents is developing and to uncover the players’ motives for playing abroad. The theoretical underpinning comes from both conventional and alternative critical views of sports as labour. Th…
Governing Integration through Sports
This article problematises the increasing involvement of non-state actors (in particular Danish civil sports associations) in the conduct of integration policy. Based on a case study the article describes how the involved public authorities and non-state actors represent the problem (and aim) of enhancing ethnic integration through sports. The concept of assemblage is used to highlight the heterogeneity of the rationalities and resources that mer…
Understanding women’s professional soccer
Jørgen Bagger Kjærab* & Sine Agergaardca Department of Exercise and Sports Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmarkb School of Health, Recreation and Tourism, George Mason University, Fairfax, USAc Section of Sports Science, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Established – outsider relations in youth football tournaments
This article examines Scandinavian constructions and readings of potential football migrants from the African continent by providing an investigation of the dynamics and narratives surrounding African football teams’ participation in three youth football tournaments. Drawing on Elias and Scotson’s (1965/1994) theory of established-outsider relations, we explore the transnational power relations and processes of inclusion and exclusion in group re…
Scandinavian women’s football in a global world
This special issue has grown out of an ongoing Nordic collaborative research project (Nordcorp)1 using Scandinavian women’s football as a strategically selected extreme case2 (of organizational dev
Migration and Career Transitions in Professional Sports
With rising globalization and professionalization within sports, athletes are increasingly migrating across national borders to take up work, and their athletic and nonathletic development is thereby shaped and lived in different countries. Through the analysis of interviews with female professional transnational athletes, this article contextualizes and discusses arguments for developing an interdisciplinary framework to account for lived experi…
The Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in Physical Education
Existing research on inclusion and exclusion processes in physical education (PE) has particularly focused on exclusion from PE as something being done to students and attributed to specific social categories such as (female) gender, (low) physical skills or (minority) ethnic background. This article aims to develop a social-relational perspective on inclusion and exclusion processes defined as students’ participation or non-participation in PE i…
Producing mobility through locality and visibility
To date, studies of sports labour migration have afforded little attention to analyses of how individual athletes relate to historical and macro- structural power relations and forces. In this article, we set out to develop a transnational perspective on sports labour migration, focusing particularly on migrants' achievement and maintenance of mobility as a key constituting factor in migratory movements. We argue that athletic mobility is an on-g…
Religious culture as a barrier? A counter-narrative of Danish Muslim girls’ participation in sports
Political interventions, media coverage and research often refer to the underrepresentation of ethnic minorities, particularly girls and women, participating in physical activity and organised sports. In both public and academic debates, reference is made to the religious culture as a particular barrier to participation in sports among Muslim girls and women. This article aims to provide a counter-narrative by focusing on young Muslim girls who s…
Politicisation of migrant leisure
Using the perspective of governmentality this article aims to contribute to an understanding of the rationalities of specific political interventions, and the techniques used to monitor the leisure activities of particular target groups. This process of politicization is revealed here through a case study of an intervention that provides sporting activities in holiday periods for migrant children and adolescents living in so-called socially disad…
Ambivalent Precarity
Transnational migrants are often considered to be the core of the new global precariat. On the one hand, migrants are particularly likely to become precariats, due to the outsourcing of precarious work to migrant workers and the attribution of precarious citizenship status to migrants. On the other hand, labor migrants’ accounts show that this precarity is not exclusively based on oppression, misery, and exploitation, but that labor migration is …
Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Culture
Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Culture." European Journal for Sport and Society, 13(3), pp. 248–249
The ball and the rhythm in her blood
This article provides an analysis of how Nigerian women migrants are represented and constructed as racial others by officials in the Scandinavian football clubs that recruit and employ them. Situated against scholarship on race, gender, and sport, within and outside the Scandinavian region, we highlight consistencies in stereotypical representations of black athletes. We use theories of racialisation to draw attention to how ideas about race and…
Transforming Sport
Rethinking Sports and Integration
Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descendants. It examines the origins of this idea and the concept of integration, and analyzes the problems in focus, the methods applied and the results of sports-related integration programmes. The text also redefines sports-related integration with perspectives from migration studies that highlight the …
Enacting and resisting the politics of belonging through leisure. The debate about gender-segregated swimming sessions targeting Muslim women in Denmark
In 2016 women-only swimming sessions targeting Muslims made the headlines in the Danish media, precipitating great discussion about whether such sessions contributed to or impeded social integration. This article focuses on the debate in the city council of Aarhus concerning women-only swimming activities that had existed for 10 years and had been well attended. Yet, after a year of discussion, the city council voted for a municipality-wide ban o…
Tilhørsforhold og danskhed. Debatten om kønsopdelt svømning
I 2016 og 2017 skabte kvindesvømning – et tilbud, der tiltrækker mest, men ikke udelukkende etniske minoritetskvinder – intens debat i hele Danmark. Denne artikel fokuserer på den politiske debat i Aarhus Byråd, der førte til en beslutning om, at der i kommunens svømmehaller ikke må være kønsopdelt svømning i den offentlige åbningstid. Formålet med artiklen er at undersøge, hvordan en fritidsaktivitet som kvindesvømning blev til et problem i 2016…
Nationalising minority ethnic athletes
With the rise in nationalism and anti-immigration sentiments in Europe, debate has arisen in several national media when minority ethnic athletes opt to play for the national team of their country of origin. This article aims to examine how minority ethnic athletes who opt to play for the national team in their country of destination express and are ascribed national belonging. To do so, the article draws on Nira Yuval-Davis’ distinction between …
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