Sport and Immigration in Germany

Bibliographic Data

ID8068133
AuthorsDiethelm Blecking (University of Education Freiburg, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume25
Issue8
Pages955-973
Publication date2008-06-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09523360802106705
OpenAlexW2118939291
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited13

Since the turn of the twentieth century Germany has been an immigration country. The immigrants set up sports clubs at an early period. They were created within the framework of ethnicization and community formation and played a social and political role in the ethnic colonies. The article deals with the historic migration of the Poles before the First World War and their sports clubs, and contrasts this survey with the immigration of Turks to Germany after 1961 and the establishment of Turkish clubs in German football leagues. It comes to the conclusion that there are similar processes at work in the course of both migration movements, and the clubs play similar roles. That said, a central difference can be found in the homogeneity of the Polish subculture before 1914 and in the differentiated structure of the Turkish milieu in modern Germany

Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Law · Sociology and Education Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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