1st Edition

Youth Sport, Migration and Culture Two Football Teams and the Changing Face of Ireland

By Max Mauro Copyright 2019
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

How do migrant youth negotiate their role in society through sport and leisure practices? How can political theory and qualitative critical research work together to make sense of these processes? These are among the questions that led to a long-term investigation of young males’ sport practices in Ireland, possibly the most fertile contemporary setting for the analysis of questions of sport... Read more

Introduction,  1. Sport, Youth and Migration in the Post-nation Age,  2. Community, Belonging and the Role of the Game,  3. Flexible Positions: Framing Class and Ethnicity On and Off the Pitch,  4. The Death of a Black Teenager,  5. A Team Like No ‘Other’,  6. Follow Up: The Story that Was Not There,  Conclusion



Biography

Max Mauro is Lecturer in Sport Studies at Solent University, UK and Visiting Lecturer in Media, Sport and Communication at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK.



"Mauro’s important study is not the first to look at racism within grassroots football in Ireland but is certainly the most in-depth account to date … Mauro’s research is an important step in addressing an issue which Irish society has struggled to deal with" – Conor Curran, Trinity College Dublin, Sport in Society