Indicator history

Despite the lack of official statistics, there is a broad consensus that migrants are underrepresented as members of and, even more so, as volunteers and officials in sport clubs, i. e. organised amateur sport. Migrant girls and women, in particular Muslim girls, are even stronger under-represented.
According to a large-scale survey from 2008, more than 90,000 registered sport clubs in Germany count a total of about 2,760,000 migrant members; this represents 10.1 per cent of all members and illustrates the migrants’ under-representation compared to their total population share being almost 20 per cent.
Politicians as well as experts agree that one of the reasons for this lower participation rate is the lack of intercultural awareness of many German sport clubs and their often deficient adaptation to a multi-ethnic clientele.

Sources:

• Peucker Mario (2009), Racism, xenophobia and structural discrimination in sports, Germany Country Report,  http://www.efms.uni-bamberg.de/pdf/RACISM_in_SPORT_2010.pdf
• Deutscher Sportbund (2004), http://www.migration-boell.de/downloads/diversity/Anlage_Pilz_Grundsatzerklrung_2004.pdf
• DOSB, http://www.dosb.de/fileadmin/fm-dosb/arbeitsfelder/ids/files/downloads_pdf/downloads_2011/Zielgruppen_IdS_2011.pdf, (Accessed on 28.02.2012).