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Soccer and the politics of identity for young Muslim refugee women in South Australia

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posted on 2023-05-18, 00:32 authored by Palmer, C
This study explores the ways in which a group of young Muslim refugee women in Adelaide, South Australia, draw upon their experiences of playing in a soccer team as a way of establishing and embellishing a particular cultural identity that both affirms and challenges many of the traditions of Islam. Based primarily on qualitative interviews with the players, this study examines some of the ways in which they construct notions of self, sameness and difference as young Muslim women growing up in Australia’s fifth largest capital city. The study is centrally concerned with the ways in which these young refugee women articulate their social identities through the traditions Islam and the resources of western popular culture. As is argued in the following pages, the soccer team provides a unique site through which to explore the politics of identity for young refugee women in contemporary Australia.

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Publication title

Soccer and Society

Volume

10

Pagination

27-38

ISSN

1466-0970

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

UK

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Copyright 2009 Taylor & Francis

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