United Glasgow Football Club: a study in sport's facilitation of integration
Olivia Booth, Salvator Cusimano, Evan Elise Easton-Calabria, Elisabeth Kühn
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/united-glasgow-football-club-a-study-in-sports-facilitation-of-integration
Although sport is often touted as a vehicle for social change by athletes, the media and academics, research shows that it can promote inter-ethnic segregation and conflict (Krouwel et al. 2006). In response, this paper seeks to understand whether sport can facilitate the integration of refugees and asylum seekers and how this might take place. The authors examine United Glasgow Football Club (UGFC), a team that competes in an anti-racist football league in Glasgow, Scotland, and is comprised of a mixture of Scottish nationals, refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Drawing upon Putnam's social capital framework, they find that UGFC serves as a platform for players to build social bridges and bonds, and its diversity contributes to a feeling of belonging that many team members do not find elsewhere in Glasgow.
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