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      Sport, Refugees, and Forced Migration: A Critical Review of the Literature

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          Researchers, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly pay attention to sport and physical activity as a means and context for refugee wellbeing and integration, influenced by wider political and policy concerns about forced migration. Considering this growing scholarly and policy attention, it is timely to take stock of, and critically reflect on, recent developments in this field of research. This paper offers an integrative, critical review of the scientific literature on the topic. It critically synthesizes what is known about the sport and physical activity experiences of people with refugee and forced migrant backgrounds, and identifies key issues and directions for future research in this field. This review of contemporary academic literature comprises 83 publications derived from fourteen languages published between 1996 and 2019. It shows a substantial increase in the volume of published research on the topic in recent years (2017–2019). Published research is concentrated primarily in Western countries around the themes of health promotion, integration and social inclusion, and barriers and facilitators to participation in sport and physical activity. The findings foreground the use of policy categories, deficit approaches, and intersectionalities as three pressing challenges in this area of research. Based on this synthesis, the authors identify four research gaps that require attention in future research: the experiential (embodied emotional) dimensions of sport and physical activity, the need to decolonize research, the space for innovative methodologies, and research ethics.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                Front Sports Act Living
                Front Sports Act Living
                Front. Sports Act. Living
                Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                2624-9367
                11 October 2019
                2019
                : 1
                : 47
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University , Melbourne, VIC, Australia
                [2] 2Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, Netherlands
                Author notes

                Edited by: Mahfoud Amara, Qatar University, Qatar

                Reviewed by: Shushu Chen, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mark Doidge, University of Brighton, United Kingdom

                *Correspondence: Ramón Spaaij ramon.spaaij@ 123456vu.edu.au

                This article was submitted to The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

                Article
                10.3389/fspor.2019.00047
                7739661
                33344970
                472b5737-b6a5-4714-9909-33475f54ce98
                Copyright © 2019 Spaaij, Broerse, Oxford, Luguetti, McLachlan, McDonald, Klepac, Lymbery, Bishara and Pankowiak.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 12 August 2019
                : 25 September 2019
                Page count
                Figures: 3, Tables: 1, Equations: 0, References: 89, Pages: 18, Words: 14435
                Categories
                Sports and Active Living
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                forced migration,refugee,sport participation,physical activity,integration,health promotion,leisure,asylum seeker

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