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Football and migration : perspectives, places, players

Title
Football and migration : perspectives, places, players / edited by Richard Elliott and John Harris.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Elliott, Richard, 1950-
  • Harris, John, 1972-
Description
xxxii, 206 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Routledge research in sport, culture and society
Uniform Title
Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
Subject
  • Soccer > Social aspects
  • Transnationalism
  • Fußball
  • Migration
  • Fußballspieler
Contents
Part 1. Perspectives. Mobility, migration and history: football and early transnational networks / Pierre Lanfranchi & Matthew Taylor -- Chasing the ball: the motivations, experiences and effects of migrant professional footballers / Richard Elliott -- Football and migration: a contemporary geographical analysis / Rafaelle Poli & Roger Besson -- Part 2. Places. Migration and soccer in a football world: The United States of America and the global game (John Harris) 5. Circulation, bubbles, returns: The mobility of Brazilians in the football system (Carmen Rial) 6. The migration of Irish professional footballers: The good, the bad and the ugly (Seamus Kelly) 7. Football and migration: An analysis of South Korean football (Jung-Woo Lee) 8. League of retirees: Foreigners in Hungarian professional football (Gyozo Molnar) Part 3. Players. Current patterns and tendencies in women's football migration: outsourcing or national protectionism as the way forward? / Sine Agregaard -- Youth migration in English professional football: living, labouring and learning in Premier League academies / Gavin Weedon -- "No one would burden the sea and then never get any benefit": family involvement in players' migration to football academies in Ghana / Nienke van der Meij & Paul Darby -- Finding football in the Dominican Republic: Haitian migrants, space, place and notions of exclusion / Nicholas Wise and John Harris -- Playing the long-ball game: future directions in the study of football and migration / Richard Elliott & John Harris.
Call Number
JFE 16-6649
ISBN
  • 9780415739788
  • 0415739780
  • 9781315816388 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014014638
OCLC
885312814
Title
Football and migration : perspectives, places, players / edited by Richard Elliott and John Harris.
Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Routledge research in sport, culture and society
Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
Added Author
Elliott, Richard, 1950-
Harris, John, 1972-
Research Call Number
JFE 16-6649
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