Sport as a vehicle for social mobility and regulation of disadvantaged urban youth: Lessons from Rotterdam

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 247-264

  Spaaij, Ramón ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disadvantaged youth; Regulation; Social mobility; The Netherlands; Urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449643015     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1012690209338415     Document Type: Article

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