Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China: (Re)crafting contours of a metropolitan cityscape

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This study examines associations between sport/physical activity space, community formation and social life among Shanghai’s highly skilled migrant demographic. There is limited illustration of the roles sport physical exercise provision spaces play in this cohort’s lives, participation their host societies. Yet, such evidence value determining policy, urban development engagement initiatives. Using a mixed-methods approach involving public policy critique, cultural spatial analysis virtual investigation, article provides conceptual exploration ways frame individual collective experiences, how experiences enmesh with wider geo-spatial, political domestic context. Amid presentation as globally attractive we reveal some complexities cityscape an emblematic location for mobile, migrants. A confluence ideals about citizenship, localised activity/sport-based (inter)action, note, articulate Shanghai anew, contribute to debates on transnational mobility formation.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: International Review for the Sociology of Sport

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1012-6902', '1461-7218']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902211009444