The social selectivity of certain sports with regard to German migrants theoretical reflections using handball as an example

Bibliographic Data

ID6145058
AuthorsCarmen Borggrefe (University of Stuttgart, corresponding author), Klaus Cachay (Hochschule Bielefeld)
Year2018
Volume15
Issue3
Pages250-267
Publication date2018-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal for Sport and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1613-8171 • E-ISSN: 2380-5919
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/16138171.2018.1484022
OpenAlexW2887007059
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

In Germany, sports like football, weightlifting and boxing, practised by many sportsmen and women with a migrant background, stand in stark contrast with sports rarely taken up by the migrant population. Among the latter is handball, undoubtedly the second most popular German team sport after football. This paper addresses the problem of social selectivity in handball with regard to migrants in Germany and aims at identifying possible causes of this lack of participation on the basis of theoretical reflections. In concrete terms, the objective is to develop a theoretical model in which all exclusion mechanisms contributing to the social barriers facing people with a migrant background in handball are collated

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