Immigration: a new cultural insight into sport

Photographic exhibition

The exhibition “Immigration: a new cultural insight into sport” was the result of the academic and photojournalism work that combined documentation, social research and photography. The photographic work, by Kim Manresa, visually documented representative moments of interaction between the immigrant community and the host society, as well as the city and its spaces as a stage for sports practice.

The photographic exhibition gathered 63 photographs, and was structured in eleven sections, plus presentation, introduction and credits.

1 Gaelic sports
2 Cricket
3 Women’s football
4 United Nations World Cup
5 All Colors
6 Papa Eto’o
7 Kabbadi
8 Baseball
9 Running races
10 Catalan sports
11 Korfball

To facilitate the dissemination of the results, the exhibition adopted various formats:

Travelling exhibition

The exhibition, after its opening on March 2007 in the Museum of the History of Immigration of Catalonia (MhiC), in Sant Adrià del Besòs, was travelled around:

– Sant Adrià del Besòs (2007)
– Sant Boi del Llobregat (2007)
– Lausanne Olympic Museum (restaurant) (2007)
– Maison du Sport International (Lausanne) (2007)
– Vilafranca del Penedès (2008)
– Cerdanyola del Vallès (UAB) (2008)
– Gavà (2008)
– Cornellà de Llobregat (2008)
– Amposta (2008)
– National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (2009)

Online exhibition

A web site was designed including all the research materials and information about the activities developed. The website also included the exhibition online. Images were complemented with a description and analysis of the experience, an explanation of the history and regulation of the sport, information on where and how to practice the sport in Catalonia and a set resources on the sport.

Joint exhibition “Sport and construction of citizenship”

In the framework of the Sport Year, promoted by the Barcelona City Council in 2008, CEO-UAB promoted a joint exhibition that brought together three projects under the common denominator of sport as a point of encounter and generator of social cohesion: Immigration: a new cultural insight into sport – CEO-UAB -; Necessary views – Special Olympics, Tot Raval, Secretary of Penitentiary Services, Rehabilitation and Juvenile Justice of the Generalitat de Catalunya-; The public space and the sport as generators of social networks – Laboratory of Social Research of the INEFC. The exhibition was installed at the Olympic and Sports Museum of Barcelona, ​​from January 17 to March 31, 2008.