Handboll- En arena för integration? : En kvalitativ intervjustudie av ett integrationsprojekt startat av en handbollsklubb

Handball - as an arena for integration? : A qualitative interview study of an integration project started by a handball club The purpose of this study was to understand how the project HAF works with integration for the participating children. The study is based on six semi-structured interviews with people working with the project. We interviewed the project manager, a principal, a handball trainer, a health educator, a homework teacher and a class teacher. When analyzing the material, we have used three sub-headings, the project's contribution to integration, other aspects of the project and the challenges of the project. We have analyzed the material based on Bourdieu's (1999) capital concepts, where we have focused on social capital, but also used cultural, economic and symbolic capital. The study's results show that the interviewees believe that the project has contributed to integration in different ways. Where the opportunity for the children to meet other children and adults has been of great importance. The interviewees also talked about the preventive work that the project consists of, in the form of homework help. The interviewees argued that if the children develop at school, they reduce the risk of being excluded from society later in life