Sport, refugees and forced migration: critical dialogues and questions amid diminishing rights and expanding borders.

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of some of the key themes and issues that have emerged in recent years among a lively and critical body of scholarship addressing the relationship between sport and forced migration. This chapter engages with this literature with two main objectives. The first is to provide an overview of key debates and themes and identify outstanding issues for scholars to grapple with. The second is to consider how sport and leisure scholars can contribute to wider debates across academic, public, and applied domains addressing issues of forced migration and displacement. In doing so, the chapter discusses how the much-coveted policy relevance of (sport) research can be achieved not just by reacting to existing policy-driven questions and buzzwords, but by advancing novel domains of interdisciplinary analysis and praxis. The chapter briefly explores three of these potential contributions at the intersection of sport, leisure and forced migration.