Young Indo-Fijian Women Breaking Barriers in Fijian Sporting Spaces

Rohini Balram is an arts-based researcher and sports sociologist with a PhD from Western Sydney University, Australia. She is also a fitness and wellbeing trainer who volunteers to support the sporting, physical activity, and leisure pursuits of migrant women from South and West Asia in Western Sydney, using culturally appropriate interventions. In addition to her academic, professional, and volunteer work, Rohini uses her Global South voice as an Indo-Fijian-Australian sporty woman living in diaspora when writing creative fiction and poetry.

• Chapter 1: An overview of the book and methodological design.- Chapter 2 – Gender, race and class: lived experiences of young sporty South Asian women in the Global South diaspora.- Chapter 3 – Intersectional oppression of young Indo-Fijian women: cultural, spatial, and social dimensions.- Chapter 4 – Reinforcing gender traditions: Fijian teachers’ impact on Indo-Fijian girls’ sports.- Chapter 5 - From girmit to game: Indo-Fijian women challenging boundaries in Fijian physical and sporting culture.- Chapter 6 - Conclusion: Intersectional Insights into the Sporting Lives of Young Indo-Fijian Women.