| Description |
xii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Sports Labour Migration in the Global Arena / Joseph Maguire and John Bale -- 2. The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited: The Migration of Welsh Rugby Talent since 1918 / Gareth Williams -- 3. The Bogota Affair / Tony Mason -- 4. Cricket and the Imperial Connection: Overseas Players in Lancashire in the Inter-war Years / Jeffrey Hill -- 5. The Migration of Footballers: The Case of France, 1932-1982 / Pierre Lanfranchi -- 6. Blue Bonnets over the Border: Scotland and the Migration of Footballers / H. F. Moorhouse -- 7. Dimensions of International Talent Migration in Latin American Sports / Joseph L. Arbena -- 8. Skating on Thin Ice? The International Migration of Canadian Ice Hockey Players / Simon Genest -- 9. Professional Sports Migration to Finland during the 1980s / Kalevi Olin and Matti Penttila -- 10. Do Markets Make Footballers Free? / Fiona Miller and Steve Redhead -- 11. The Flood from the East? Perestroika and the Migration of Sports Talent from Eastern Europe / Vic Duke |
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12. Foreign Footballers, Cultural Dreams and Community Identity in some North-western Mediterranean Cities / Christian Bromberger -- 13. Trans-nationalism, Labour Migration and Latin American Baseball / Alan M. Klein -- 14. Out of Africa: The 'Development' of Kenyan Athletics, Talent Migration and the Global Sports System / John Bale and Joe Sang -- 15. American Labour Migrants, Globalization and the Making of English Basketball / Joseph Maguire -- 16. Travelling, Comparing, Emigrating: Configurations of Sport Mobility / Henning Eichberg -- Postcript: An Agenda for Research on Sports Labour Migration / Joseph Maguire and John Bale |
| Summary |
"Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves sport labour movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, sport migration is gaining momentum and is closely interwoven with the broader process of global sport development taking place in the late twentieth century." "Why do athletes decide to leave their native land? How do they cope with the experience of being in a foreign environment and how do people of their own culture and those of their host culture regard their departure and arrival? What do these movements of athletes reveal about the political economy of sport and about sport and nationhood?" "These and other questions and issues are addressed in this important collection of original essays by a distinguished international and interdisciplinary group of scholars - the first collection of its kind to examine the subject of sports talent migration."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Athletes |
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Humans Migration |
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Athletes |
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Humans Migration |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented during a colloquium at Keele University, April 1991 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Athletes -- Relocation -- Congresses.
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Athletes -- Relocation.
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Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Nationalism and sports -- Congresses.
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Professional sports -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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Sports and state -- Congresses.
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Sports -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Bale, John.
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Maguire, Joseph A., 1956-
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University of Keele.
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| LC no. |
93024340 |
| ISBN |
0714634891 (cloth) |
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0714641162 (paper) |
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