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"How do ee put him in the system?": client construction at a sport-based migrant settlement service in Melbourne, Australia
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Abstract The empirical focus of this article is a sport-based settlement service targeting newly arrived migrants in Melbourne, Australia. This five-month study examines staff members' everyday work routines with a focus on their participation in meetings and the production of documents. Embedded in the Aust... view more
The empirical focus of this article is a sport-based settlement service targeting newly arrived migrants in Melbourne, Australia. This five-month study examines staff members' everyday work routines with a focus on their participation in meetings and the production of documents. Embedded in the Australian immigration policy context, this article shows how staff members aim to empower clients while simultaneously falling back into stigmatising refugee/client identification through administrative practices. The results indicate that staffs' everyday client constructions reinforce the othering and categorisation of ethnic minorities and support a reductionist deficit model of presenting clients. This may limit the opportunities for migrants to identify with and participate in wider Australian society and thus has the opposite effect of what governments and the sector aim to accomplish.... view less
Keywords
Australia; sports; migration policy; migrant; administration; social work
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Leisure Research
Social Work, Social Pedagogics, Social Planning
Administrative Science
Free Keywords
client construction; migrant settlement; policy design; sport-for-development
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 238-247
Journal
Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 1
Issue topic
"Producing people" in documents and meetings in human service organizations
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed