Leisure and Forced Migration: Lives Lived in Asylum Systems

The book explores leisure and forced migration from sociology, gender studies, migration studies, and anthropology perspectives, challenging dehumanizing and infantilizing binaries. It highlights the importance of leisure in interrogating dominant narratives, practices, and assumptions on forced migration and lives lived in asylum systems. It is a valuable resource for students, scholars, practitioners, advocates, and community organizers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 210 pages
Publication date: 16 July 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate dynamics of leisure and forced migration, offering a timely and critical exploration from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Spanning sociology, gender studies, migration studies, and anthropology, it engages with perspectives and experiences that challenge dehumanizing and infantilizing binaries surrounding forced migrants in contemporary society.

The book presents cutting-edge research addressing three interconnected themes: spaces and temporalities, displaced bodies and intersecting inequalities, and voices, praxis, and (self)representation. Drawing from critical leisure studies perspectives on class, gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity, it highlights the transformative power of leisure in interrogating and challenging dominant narratives, practices, and assumptions about forced migration and the lives lived in asylum systems. Moreover, it contributes to ongoing debates on the scope, relevance, and aims of leisure studies in the context of the evolving global landscape.

This book serves as a valuable resource for students and scholars in leisure, sport, gender, sociology, anthropology, and migration studies. It is also essential for practitioners, advocates, and community organizers working to address issues of forced migration and sanctuary. By exploring the complexities of leisure and migration, this book sheds light on the experiences and perspectives of individuals and communities affected by these phenomena, fostering understanding, empathy, and action toward a more inclusive and equitable world.

Weight: 476g
Dimension: 160 x 243 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367356712