Making society through sport. The example of ethnic football clubs in Alsace (France)

Journal title MONDI MIGRANTI
Author/s William Gasparini
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/3
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 179-198 File size 334 KB
DOI 10.3280/MM2021-003009
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

As a popular and transnational sport, football is a ʽlaboratory' of special interest to investigate the link between migrants and host communities. In France, this sport is presented as a vehicle for integration and citizenship to benefit young people from migrant backgrounds. This empirical study allows an understanding of the ambivalence and the forms of integration of immigrants through sport in France. It explores the practice of sport by football players of North African and Turkish ori-gins in Alsace, a region in the north-east of France. This article investigates more specifically Turkish migrants (first migrant community in Alsace) in order to assess whether people from this population group together by origin or not in the prac-tice of amateur football. We use the results of a survey combining qualitative and quantitative approaches and a synthesis of the author’s research.

Keywords: migrants; integration; football; Turkish; community; identity building.

  1. Ambrosini M. (2017). Migrazioni. Milano: Egea.
  2. Ambrosini M. (2011). Sociologia delle migrazioni. Bologna: il Mulino
  3. Ambrosini M. (2008). Richiesti e respinti, Lʼimmigrazione in Italia, Come e perché. Milano: Il Saggiatore.
  4. Amselle J-L. (1990). Logiques métisses. Anthropologie de lʼidentité en Afrique et ailleurs. Paris: La Découverte (trad. it., Logiche meticce: antropologia dellʼidentità in Africa e altrove. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1999).
  5. Anderson B. (1996). LʼImaginaire national. Paris: La Découverte [1ère éd. 1983].
  6. Archambault F., Beaud S. e Gasparini W (2018). Le football des nations. Des terrains de jeu aux communautés imaginées. Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, collection Poche.
  7. Beaud S. e Noiriel G. (1990). Lʼimmigration dans le football. Vingtième Siècle, revue dʼhistoire, 26: 83-96.
  8. Boli C., Gastaut Y. e Grognet F., a cura di (2010). Allez la France. Football et immigration. Paris: Gallimard.
  9. Bourdieu P. (1984). Questions de sociologie. Paris: Éditions de Minuit.
  10. Bourdieu P. (1980). Le capital social : notes provisoires. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 3: 2-3.
  11. Bourdieu P. (1979). La distinction. Critique sociale du jugement. Paris: Ed. de Minuit.
  12. Brubaker R. (2001). Au-delà de lʼ « identité ». Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 139, 1 : 66-85.
  13. Coulangeon P. (2007). Loisir et immigration. Convergence ou résistance culturelle ? Diversité, 148: 99-106.
  14. Coulmont B. (2004). Sociologie des prénoms. Paris : La Découverte, 2e édition.
  15. Decimo F. e Sciortino G., a cura di (2006). Reti migranti. Bologna: il Mulino.
  16. Elias N. e Dunning E. (1986). Quest for Excitement. Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process. Oxford: Blackwell.
  17. Frey Y., a cura di (2009). Ces Alsaciens venus dʼailleurs. Cent cinquante ans dʼimmigration en Alsace. Nancy: Edition Place Stanislas.
  18. Ganz H-J. (1979). Symbolic Ethnicity: the Future of Ethnic Groups in America. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2/1: 1-20.
  19. Gasparini W. (2016). Football et immigration : les paradoxes de lʼintégration en France. Studi Emigrazione, LIII, 203 : 491-507.
  20. Gasparini W. (2010). Les champions des cités : parcours migratoires et effet de quartier. Hommes et Migrations, 1285: 108-124.
  21. Gasparini W. (2008). Lʼintégration par le sport. Genèse politique dʼune croyance collective. Sociétés contemporaines, 69, mars 2008, pp. 7-23.
  22. Gasparini W. (2007a). Les associations sportives turques dʼAlsace: regroupements communautaires et échanges sportifs, Migrations Société, 19,110, mars-avril 2007: 81-95.
  23. Gasparini W. (2007b). Le sport, entre communauté et communautarisme. Diversité, 150: 77-83.
  24. Gasparini W. (2007c). Sports clubs and integration of Turkish minorities in Alsace. In: Blecking D., a cura di, Sport, nation, ethnie in Europa. Berlin: Hofman, pp. 67-78.
  25. Gasparini W. e Cometti A., a cura di (2010). Sport facing the test of cultural diversity. Integration and intercultural dialogue in Europe. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
  26. Gasparini W. e Noiriel G. (2013). Sʼintégrer dans la communauté nationale par le sport : sociogenèse dʼune catégorie de pensée. Revue dʼAllemagne et des pays de langue allemande, 4: 411-423.
  27. Gasparini W. e Talleu C. (2010). Sport of discrimination en Europe. The perspective of young European research of journalists. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Pubblishing.
  28. Gasparini W. e Weiss P. (2008). La construction du regroupement sportif « communautaire ». Lʼexemple des clubs de football Turcs en France et en Allemagne, Sociétés contemporaines, 69, mars 2008, pp. 73-99.
  29. Gasparini W. e Koebel M. (2019). Le football communautaire : enquête dans les clubs alsaciens. Sciences de la Société, 101: 145-168.
  30. Gastaut Y. (2008). Le métissage par le foot. Lʼintégration, mais jusquʼoù ? Paris: Autrement.
  31. Kastoryano R. (1998). Les migrants de Turquie face à la France. Confrontations dʼidentité. Hommes et migrations, 1212: 111-119.
  32. Livi Bacci M. (2014). In cammino. Breve storia delle migrazioni. Bologna: il Mulino.
  33. Martelli S. (2020). Migrantsʼ social integration through movement practices? In: Porro Nicola R., Martelli S. e Testa A., a cura di, Sport, Welfare and Social Policy in the European Union. London: Routledge, pp. 9-28.
  34. Morel-Chevillet R. (2015). Les immigrés en Alsace : 10% de la population. Chiffres pour lʼAlsace, 34: 3-6.
  35. Noiriel G. (1988). Le Creuset français. Histoire de lʼimmigration 19e-20e siècles. Paris: Ed. du Seuil.
  36. Sayad A. (1999). La double absence: des illusions de lʼémigré aux souffrances de lʼimmigré. Paris: Seuil.
  37. Perocco F. (2012). Migrazioni, mutamento sociale, pluralismo. Gli immigrati musulmani in Italia. Padova: Cleup.
  38. Porro N., a cura di (2016). Sport and migrations in the global (dis)order, dossier Studi Emigrazione, LIII, 203.
  39. Russo G. (2019). Integration by Sport Activities: Resource or Only a Paradox ?, Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge-JMK.
  40. Russo G., a cura di (2016). Sport e migrazione. Dossier rivista Africa e Mediterraneo, 84.
  41. Siebetcheu R. (2015). Lo sport come strumento dʼintegrazione. In: Centro Studi e Ricerche Idos, Dossier Statistico Immigrazione 2015. (pp. 227-230). Roma: Idos.
  42. Weber M. (1971). Economie et société. Paris: Plon [1ère éd. 1921] (trad. it. Economia e società. Milano: Edizioni di Comunità, 1981).
  43. Weber M. (1964). Lʼéthique protestante et lʼesprit du capitalisme. Paris: Plon (trad. it. Lʼetica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo. Firenze: Sansoni, 1972).
  44. Weiss P. (2013). Tel père, tel fils ! Les clubs de football turc en France et en Allemagne. Diversité, 171: 52-57.
  45. Weiss P. (2012). La fabrication du regroupement sportif « communautaire ». Enquête sociologique sur les clubs de football turcs en France et en Allemagne. Thèse de doctorat, Université de Strasbourg.

William Gasparini, Fare società attraverso lo sport. L’esempio delle società calcistiche comunitarie in Alsazia (Francia) in "MONDI MIGRANTI" 3/2021, pp 179-198, DOI: 10.3280/MM2021-003009