http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4093 2026-04-20T12:22:22Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4115 Sport and Integration of Migrants: Some Considerations D’Angelo, Giuseppe The potential of sport for the inclusion of minorities is widely acknowledged. Being a non-verbal language, sport is particularly useful to ease the integration of the migrants in the hosting societies; in the present world – in which migrations are one of the most debated issues of the political arena – it can be a valid tool to create a more inclusive society. However, the potential of sport should not be overestimated, mainly because of the limits of its role and the barriers that hinder the participation of migrants. In this context, the role of scholars, which can provide useful tools of knowledge, is essential. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4114 Integration by Sport Activities: Resource or Only a Paradox? Russo, Giovanna Nowadays in Europe sport and physical activity represent a strategic tool for public health policiesthat aim to promote the wellbeing of population, supporting dialogue for social cohesion and, at the same time, represent an important economic sector. The acknowledgement of sport capability to be a vehicle for integrating diversity- confirming the attention to intercultural dialogue at European level –in an evidence of its importance in the current debate on integration and multiculturalism. Through comparing different sports models of integration within the EU, this paper is going to discuss some questions: what connection is there between the construction of a multicultural society and the diffusion of sports practices? What meanings, values and paradoxes coexist today in the culture of integration implemented in Europe? Is the “sports” habitus a field of competition between migrants and natives, or a space of integration for generations of new citizens? 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4113 Intercultural Dialogue and Integration of Migrants through Sport. Experiences in the Campania Region Fonzo, Erminio Sport is considered a tool to ease intercultural dialogue and integration of migrants in the hosting countries. Sports activities have great potentialities, but the participation of foreigners and the impact of athleticism on their integration are limited by some barriers. In Campania some attempts to favour the integration through sport have been promoted in recent years by associations and groups of citizens. Among the most successful projects are the football teams Afro-Napoli United, Rfc Lions Ska and Atletico Brigante and the basketball club Tam Tam. These projects have largely succeeded in involving the migrants and promoting their integration, but they also met some obstacles which limited their impact. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4108 Civilization and Sport in Colombia’s Drive to Modernization Torres Velasco, Javier This paper discusses the manner in which modern spectator sports developed in Colombia in the decade of the 1920s as part of the country’s efforts to modernize. An examination of the dominant theories of the diffusion of European sports to the Latin American elites and eventually to the populace as a technique for social control is undertaken. Scant immigration into the country as well as high mortality rates for men and women resulting from civil war and disease make Colombia a case of special interest. Rather than the introduction of a single sport, we embark on an analysis of leisure, scouting, gymnastics, and sports to describe the matrix from which sporting practices develop. A careful examination of the 1920s press reports allows for a careful description of the roots of these physical activities, the emergence of a new social actor, the sportsperson, and the role of state regulation in the field of sports. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z