“We Can’t Get Stuck in Old Ways”: Swedish Sports Club’s Integration Efforts With Children and Youth in Migration

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.2478/pcssr-2021-0023

Krister Hertting, Inger Karlefors

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Abstract

Abstract The last years many people have been forcibly displaced due to circumstances such as conflicts in the world, and many people have come to Sweden for shelter. It has been challenging for Swedish society to receive and guide newcomers through the resettlement process, and many organizations in civil society, such as sports clubs, have been invited to support the resettlement. However, a limited numbers of studies has drawn the attention to sports clubs experiences. Therefore the aim of the paper was enhance understanding of sports clubs’ prerequesites and experiences of integration efforts with immigrant children and youth. Ten Swedish clubs with experience of working with newcomers participated. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Two categories were identified: Struggling with sporting values and organization and Seeing integration in everyday activities. The clubs experienced that integration occurs in everyday activities, but current ideas focusing competition and rigid organization of sports constrained possibilities for integrating newcomers with no or limited former experience of club sports. The clubs experienced potential to contribute to personal development, social connectedness and enjoyment in a new society and building bridges between cultures. In conclusion, clubs cannot solve the challenges of resettlement in society but have potential to be part of larger societal networks of integration.

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“我们不能陷入旧的方式”:瑞典体育俱乐部与移民儿童和青年的融合努力

近年来，由于世界上的冲突等情况，许多人被迫流离失所，许多人来到瑞典寻求庇护。对于瑞典社会来说，在重新安置过程中接收和指导新移民一直是一项挑战，许多民间社会组织，如体育俱乐部，已被邀请支持重新安置。然而，有限的研究引起了人们对体育俱乐部经验的关注。因此，本文的目的是增进对体育俱乐部与移民儿童和青少年融合工作的先决条件和经验的理解。有10个瑞典扶轮社有处理新来者的经验。采用半结构化访谈，定性内容分析。他们确定了两类人:在体育价值观和组织方面挣扎，以及在日常活动中看到融合。俱乐部经历了融合发生在日常活动中，但目前的想法侧重于竞争和严格的体育组织，限制了融合没有或有限的俱乐部体育经验的新来者的可能性。俱乐部体验了在新社会中促进个人发展、社会联系和享受以及在文化之间建立桥梁的潜力。总之，俱乐部不能解决社会重新安置的挑战，但有潜力成为更大的社会融合网络的一部分。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.