Social Sciences
Volume 8, Issue 6, 2019

The Syrian Canadian Sports Club: A community-based participatory action research project with/for Syrian Youth Refugees (Article) (Open Access)

Robinson D.B. , Robinson I.M.* , Currie V. , Hall N.
  • a Faculty of Education, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5, Canada
  • b Faculty of Education, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5, Canada
  • c International Institute for Child Rights and Development, Victoria, BC V8W 3G9, Canada
  • d Faculty of Education and Faculty of Kinesiology and Applied Health, University ofWinnipeg, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada

Abstract

In this paper, we share the rationale, process, and results related to a community-based participatory action research (PAR) project in which we, among other things, aimed to attend to the underrepresentation of newcomer youth in community sport and recreation pursuits. By way of engaging with one rural county's Syrian youth refugee population while also attending closely to a social ecological framework, we first identified obstacles and opportunities related to multiple systems (i.e., individual, social/interpersonal, organizational/community, public policy). Drawing upon multiple data sources (i.e., photos and photovoice, participants' drawings and notes, participant-researchers' field notes, and focus group interviews) to inform our subsequent plan-act-observe-reflect action research cycles, we and our Syrian youth participants co-created and implemented the Syrian Youth Sports Club. In addition to describing the rationale and process related to this Syrian Youth Sports Club, we focus herein upon the results, which primarily relate to participants' experiences becoming (physically literate) and belonging. © 2019 by the authors.

Author Keywords

youth Newcomer Sport Ecological systems Participatory action research (PAR) Physical literacy Social ecological Recreation Refugee physical activity

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85067335775&doi=10.3390%2fsocsci8060163&partnerID=40&md5=4e05b595ab9a0061c39e7a3814a115de
DOI: 10.3390/socsci8060163
ISSN: 20760760
Original Language: English