BU's Sport and Physical Activity Research Centre members to host a symposium about leisure and forced migration
On Wednesday聽9聽October, the聽Refugee and Migrants Leisure Network 补苍诲听Department of Sport and Event Management, with the support of the "",聽will be hosting the聽research symposium:聽"Leisure and forced migration: reframing critical analyses of practices, sociabilities and lives lived in the asylum system鈥�.
The core theme of the symposium will be the unique contribution that critical聽perspectives from leisure, sport and events,聽can provide in addressing the topic of forced migration, and its intersection with issues of identity, community, rights, security, belonging/citizenship, and humanity in our historical present.
The symposium will run from 10am to 5pm at the Executive Business Centre (Landsdown Campus, room EBC705), and will include an international line-up of academics, third sector organisations and member of refugee communities presenting their projects聽and research on the topic.
To find out more information or to book your free ticket, visit the .
