Rethinking Sports and Integration

Sine Agergaard is a social anthropologist and professor in humanistic and social sports science at the Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is also a co-founder and currently the head of the International Network for Research in Sport and Migration Issues (spomi-net).

• 1. Introduction, 2. Defining sports-related integration and its shortcomings, 3. Evolving policies of sports-related integration, 4. Broadening the problem in focus, 5. Rethinking programme techniques, 6. Critiquing expectations of social capital in sports, 7. Applying diversity management, 8. Conclusion: recapitulating sports-related integration policies and programmes

"...delivers a detailed and comprehensive explanation and critique on sports-related integration concepts and policies. {...} Rethinking Sport and Integrationis an important addition to the literature on sport research related to migration and integration. Agergaard draws extensively from various perspectives and case studies, as well as from adjacent fields such as race, ethnicity, sports and migration studies to support her contentions. She further presents a solid conceptual and theoretically informed framework to re-examine the issues pertaining to policies and initiatives that are established to promote integration through and in sport." Sepandarmaz Mashreghi 2019, Dept of Sport Sciences, Malmö University, idrottsforum.org.