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Social inclusion, sport for development and peace, and community-based research: Free Play for Kids
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SSHRC IG awarded 2021. Thousands of refugees and immigrants arrive in Canada every year and are increasingly settling in the major Prairie urban centres, including in Edmonton, Alberta. Immigrants and refugees are supported in various capacities in the resettlement process by an expanding non-profit sector, including organizations that provide sport and leisure activities for young people. This three-year community-based research (CBR) project will explore the role of Free Play for Kids---a non-profit, Sport For Development and Peace (SDP) organization in Edmonton, Alberta---in providing socially inclusive, after school sporting opportunities for newcomers at no cost to participants and their families.
The three interrelated issues that will be addressed include: (1) What are the enabling and constraining participatory strategies and development objectives of SDP organizations like Free Play for Kids – as well as the taken-for-granted assumptions, knowledge(s), and subjectivities of staff and volunteers – in their efforts to provide socially inclusive and safe sporting opportunities in the COVID-19 era? (2) What are the experiences of racialized children within the sporting programs and spaces, and how do they serve as both a site of inclusion (e.g., a social bridge for connection with others from different ethnic backgrounds, including Canadian-born citizens) and exclusion for young people (e.g., along the lines of gender)? (3) In what ways does involvement in these sporting opportunities support racialized parents of young participants and their family members in the resettlement process?
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- 2020-01-01
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- Research Material
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- © Scherer, Jay. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document is embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2026.