1st Edition

Leisure and Forced Migration Lives Lived in Asylum Systems

Edited By Nicola De Martini Ugolotti, Jayne Caudwell Copyright 2022
222 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a timely and critical exploration of leisure and forced migration from multiple disciplinary perspectives, spanning sociology, gender studies, migration studies and anthropology. It engages with perspectives and experiences that unsettle and oppose dehumanising and infantilising binaries surrounding forced migrants in contemporary society.  The book presents cutting edge... Read more

1          Leisure and forced migration: Lives lived in asylum systems

            Nicola De Martini Ugolotti and Jayne Caudwell

 

Part I: Spaces and temporalities

 

2          Informal football spaces and the negotiation of temporal politics in the lives of forced migrants

            Chris Webster and Khaled Abunaama

 

3          A spatial-phenomenological analysis of asylum seeking women's engagement in a cycling recreation program

            Shahrzad Mohammadi

 

4          Thick leisure: Waiting time in a migratory context

            Donatella Schmidt and Giovanna Palutan

 

5          “We’re the (global) North Bank…”: Transnational fandom, forced migration and football consumption

            Chris Stone

 

Part II: Displaced bodies and intersecting inequalities

 

6          Leisure provision for LGBTIQ+ refugees: Opportunities and constraints on building solidarity and citizenship across differences in Brazil

            Nadyne Venturini-Trindade

 

7          Granted asylum and healthy living: Women newcomers’ experiences of accessing leisure time physical activity in Denmark

            Sine Agergaard, Verena Lenneis, Camilla Bakkær Simonsen and Knud Ryom

 

8          Pain, faith and yoga: An intersectional-phenomenological perspective on Syrian Muslim women’s experiences of resettlement in Sweden

            Claire Collison and Nicola De Martini Ugolotti

 

9          Voices from the margins: Khat-chewing, devotional leisure and ambivalence in the British-Somali diaspora

            Spencer Swain

 

Part III: Voices, praxis, and (self)representation

 

10        Decolonial stories of forced migrants in physical activity and sport: “We the Afghan kids”

            Sepandarmaz Mashreghi with Yasmin, Hassan, Ali, Mohammad

 

11        A different approach to making theatre with refugees: A refuge from being a refugee

            Aqeel Abdulla

 

12        A Shia Ismaili Muslim ringette experiences on and off the ice: An autoethnography

            Shemine A. Gulamhusein

Biography

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Physical Cultures at Bournemouth University, UK, and a member of Associazione Frantz Fanon in Turin, Italy.

Jayne Caudwell is Associate Professor in Social Sciences, Gender and Sexualities in the Department of Social Sciences and Social Work at Bournemouth University, UK.

"Overall, this book would be valuable for both researchers and practitioners in organisations dealing with forced migration, as well as policymakers, in that forced migrants should not be depicted as passive victims waiting to be ‘assisted’ or ‘protected’ by others, but as people actively seeking to hold on to their own agency via leisure. It also opens up a research niche in leisure studies in that forced migrants are among the agents in this domain." – Pui Yan Flora Lau, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Leisure Studies