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Barriers Exist for Newcomers to Access Spaces for Sport and Recreation

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2011

Authors

Safai, Parissa

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Abstract

Newcomers and other groups experience barriers from being active in sports and physical activity. This is a result of institutional racism. Many spaces do not address the varied and distinct needs of different groups, despite multiculturalism policies in Canada.

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Sports, Immigration, Race and Racism

Citation

Safai, P. (2012). Change rooms and change agents: The struggle against barriers to opportunities for physical activity and sport in ethnocultural communities in Toronto. In R. Field (Ed.), Scholar, athlete, activist: Essays in honour of Bruce Kidd. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.