Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people

Sport is widely utilised as an integration tool for refugee-background young people in resettlement countries, with a concomitant research focus on the implementation and outcomes of health initiatives. However, narrow context outcome sport participation limits our understanding wider role plays sphere belonging people. By taking view football that includes fandom, informal participation, community sport, we can gain important insights into how it functions mobile, transnational can, some, provide continuous sense embodied, affective, practical, sociocultural face multiple migrations transitions. Drawing three ethnographic participatory studies conducted United Kingdom, Australia, Netherlands, this article explores ways which engagement both precedes exceeds everyday lives The authors demonstrate need to place instrumental sports-based approaches historical context, attend affordances