European Sport Inclusion Network Equal access for migrant volunteers to sports clubs in Europe A baseline study Victoria Schwenzer EQUAL ACCESS FOR MIGRANT VOLUNTEERS TO SPORTS CLUBS IN EUROPE 2 Publisher Camino – Werkstatt für Fortbildung, Praxisbegleitung und Forschung im sozialen Bereich gGmbH Boppstraße 7 10967 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 (0)30 610 737 20 Fax +49 (0)30 610 737 229
[email protected] www.camino-werkstatt.de Our thanks to Annette Schmaltz, Berlin (Translation), Matthäus Zinner, Vienna (Layout) and all the experts from Berlin, Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Lisbon, Rome, Vienna and the interviewees from the sports clubs Liberi Nantes (Rome), Mahatma Gandhi FC (Budapest) and SG Egelsbach 1874 e.V. (Egelsbach). Selected photographs by JMÖ (Vienna), fairplay-VIDC (Vienna), MGHRO (Budapest), Liberi Nantes (Rome), Iris Jaron and Thomas Geiß (Egelsbach) and IKEB (Vienna). © Berlin, November 2016 Contact to the ESPIN-project: European Sport Inclusion Network (ESPIN) Kurt Wachter | Coordinator VIDC – fairplay Möllwaldplatz 5/3 1040 Vienna, Austria
[email protected] Tel. +43 (0)1 713 35 94 90 www.sportinclusion.net www.facebook.com/SpinProject The ESPIN project is co-funded by the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ Sport Programme. This publication reflects only the author’s view and the Agency and the Commission are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contains. European Sport Inclusion Network 3 Contents Introduction: objectives and methods . 4 Framing the study . 5 Definitions 5 Migration in context 6 Volunteering, sports and migration: assessing the situation . 8 Volunteering and sports: results of pan-European surveys 8 The underrepresentation of migrants in sports: results from national surveys 10 The participation of migrants and minorities in sports clubs: the experts’ view 12 Differences regarding the concepts and the significance of sports and volunteering 13 Summary of the intermediate results 14 Benefits and barriers affecting migrant volunteers in sports .