ISBN:
9780203877319
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (334 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/83
Keywords:
Emigration and immigration
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Sports Sociological aspects
;
Sports Cross-cultural studies
;
Athletes Relocation
;
Athletes - Relocation
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Electronic books
Abstract:
From Major League Baseball to English soccer's Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and facilitated by the social and economic undercurrents of globalization, mean that world sport is now an important case study for any student or researcher with an interest in international labor flows, economic migration, global demography or the interdependent world economy. In this dazzling collection of papers, leading international sport studies scholars chart the patterns, policies and personal experiences of labour migration within and around sport, and in doing so cast important new light both on the forces shaping modern sport and on the role that sport plays in shaping the world economy and global society. Presenting original case studies of sports from European and African soccer to Japanese baseball to rugby union in New Zealand, the book makes an important contribution to our understanding of a wide range of issues within contemporary social science, such as national identity politics, economic structure and organization, north-south relations, imperial legacies and gender relations. This book is invaluable reading for students and researchers working in sport studies, human geography, economics or international business.
Abstract:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Borders, boundaries and crossings: sport, migration and identities -- Part I Patterns of migration and sport -- 1 From the South to Europe: A comparative analysis of African and Latin American football migration -- 2 Why tax international athlete migration?: The 'Coubertobin' tax in a context of financial crisis -- 3 Moving with the bat and the ball: The migration of Japanese baseball labour, 1912-2009 -- 4 From the Soviet Bloc to the European Community: Migrating professional footballers in and out of Hungary -- Part II Bridgeheads in migration and sport -- 5 Preliminary observations on globalisation and the migration of sport labour -- 6 Sport labour migration as a global value chain The Dominican case -- 7 'Net-gains': Informal recruiting, Canadian players and British professional ice hockey -- 8 'Have board, will travel': Global physical youth cultures and trans-national mobility1 -- Part III Experiences of migration and sport -- 9 Migrants, mercenaries and overstayers: Talent migration in Pacific Island rugby -- 10 Blade runners: Canadian migrants and European ice hockey -- 11 Female football migration: Motivational factors for early migratory processes -- Part IV Identities in migration and sport -- 12 Globetrotters in local contexts: Basketball migrants, fans and local identities -- 13 Diaspora and global sports migration: A case study in the English and New Zealand contexts -- 14 Tries for the nation?: International rugby players' perspectives on national identity -- Part V Impacts of migration on sports and societies -- 15 The new international division of cultural labour and sport -- 16 Transnational athletes: Celebrities and migrant players in fútbol and hockey.
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Borders, boundaries and crossings: sport, migration and identities; Part I Patterns of migration and sport; 1 From the South to Europe: A comparative analysis of African and Latin American football migration; 2 Why tax international athlete migration?: The 'Coubertobin' tax in a context of financial crisis; 3 Moving with the bat and the ball: The migration of Japanese baseball labour, 1912-2009
Description / Table of Contents:
4 From the Soviet Bloc to the European Community: Migrating professional footballers in and out of HungaryPart II Bridgeheads in migration and sport; 5 Preliminary observations on globalisation and the migration of sport labour; 6 Sport labour migration as a global value chain The Dominican case; 7 'Net-gains': Informal recruiting, Canadian players and British professional ice hockey; 8 'Have board, will travel': Global physical youth cultures and trans-national mobility1; Part III Experiences of migration and sport
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Migrants, mercenaries and overstayers: Talent migration in Pacific Island rugby10 Blade runners: Canadian migrants and European ice hockey; 11 Female football migration: Motivational factors for early migratory processes; Part IV Identities in migration and sport; 12 Globetrotters in local contexts: Basketball migrants, fans and local identities; 13 Diaspora and global sports migration: A case study in the English and New Zealand contexts; 14 Tries for the nation?: International rugby players' perspectives on national identity; Part V Impacts of migration on sports and societies
Description / Table of Contents:
15 The new international division of cultural labour and sport16 Transnational athletes: Celebrities and migrant players in fútbol and hockey; 17 Out of Africa: The exodus of elite African football talent to Europe; 18 Touring, travelling and accelerated mobilities: Team and player mobilities in New Zealand rugby union; Future directions: Sporting mobilities, immobilities and moorings; References and bibliography; Index
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=957453
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