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Integration of immigrant youth in Sweden: does sport participation really have an impact?
Performance and Training Unit, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Educational Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare, Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8987-5975
2020 (English)In: International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, ISSN 0267-3843, E-ISSN 2164-4527, Vol. 25, no 1, p. 891-906Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Sport participation for youth with immigrant background is often argued to play an important role for migrant youth integration into their new host society. Although few well sampled longitudinal studies has been conducted. The aim of this study was to study the impact that sport participation has on two integration-related outcomes (problem behaviours and native friends) by using the Swedish version of the longitudinal CILS4EU study. The multi-group latent growth curve models showed that although youth active or starting in sport independent of immigrant background did less problem behaviours and had more native friends than their peers with the same immigrant background that was not engaged in sport. However, the trajectories were very similar and often very close to zero, which makes it difficult to claim that sport participation has any significant impact on integration in the Swedish society. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Vol. 25, no 1, p. 891-906
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Social integration, sport, inclusion, anti-social behaviours, positive youth development
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-43456DOI: 10.1080/02673843.2020.1775099ISI: 000606509700001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85086719391OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-43456DiVA, id: diva2:1501715
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Funding: The research initiative Children, Migration and Integration at Stockholm University, Stockholm

Available from: 2020-11-17 Created: 2020-11-17 Last updated: 2021-10-25Bibliographically approved

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