Social integration of people with a migration background in Swiss sport clubs: A cross-level analysis

Sport clubs are considered an ideal setting for the social integration of people with a migration background. However, they can also be place closure practices, where assimilative ideas and ethnic boundaries present. Besides individual characteristics members, adequate club organizational structures relevant preventing facilitating integration. Thus, role might differ between natives Based on data from 42 Swiss sport 780 without background, we analyzed (migration background membership biography) structural factors (situational, goals, culture) using multilevel models tested cross-level interactions variables The results reveal that biography (e.g. duration volunteering) estimated effects that, unlike second-generation conditions especially first-generation For example, increases higher proportion in or less culture.