Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings by Joseph Maguire (Englis

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A collection of papers in which some of the leading international sport studies scholars chart the patterns, policies and personal experiences of labour migration within and around sport, and focuses both on the forces shaping modern sport and on the role that sport plays in shaping the world economy and global society.

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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.

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A collection which examines the patterns, policies and personal experiences of labour migration within and around sport.

Author Biography

Joseph Maguire is Professor in Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at the University of Loughborough, UK. He is a past President of the International Sociology of Sport Association and an executive board member of the International Council for Sports Science and Physical Education. Mark Falcous is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport in the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is an editorial board member for the Sociology of Sport Journal.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings: Sport, Migration and Identities Section 1: Patterns of Migration and Sport 1. From the South to Europe: A Comparative Analysis of African and Latin American Football Migration 2. "Why Tax Athletes' International 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 Section 2: Bridgeheads in Migration and Sport 5. Preliminary Observations on Globalisation and the Migration of Sport Labour 6. Sports 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 Transnational Mobility Section 3: 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 Section 4: 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 Context 14. Tries for the Nation?: International Rugby Players' Perspectives on National Identity Section 5: 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 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

Review

"...at all levels of sport, starting in the US with intercollegiate sports up through the professional leagues, the migration of athletic talent has grown exponentially in the last two decades. Editor Maguire and his colleagues (25 authors of 18 chapters) have been telling society this for years, but they say it best here. The global international migration of athletic talent is the new 'sports world.' Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, professionals." —CHOICE, E. Smith, Wake Forest University, USA"The greatest strength of the book, I suggest, is that it offers perspectives from a wide range of disciplines; chapters range from statistically orientated economic analyses to the figurational work of Elias and neo-Marxist economic dependency theory...Overall this book offers a wide-ranging introduction to sport migration. Subsequently, I suggest this would be an ideal text for an undergraduate paper on sport migration." – Sport, Education and Society

Review Quote

"...at all levels of sport, starting in the US with intercollegiate sports up through the professional leagues, the migration of athletic talent has grown exponentially in the last two decades. Editor Maguire and his colleagues (25 authors of 18 chapters) have been telling society this for years, but they say it best here. The global international migration of athletic talent is the new 'sports world.' Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, professionals." 'e"CHOICE, E. Smith, Wake Forest University, USA "The greatest strength of the book, I suggest, is that it offers perspectives from a wide range of disciplines; chapters range from statistically orientated economic analyses to the figurational work of Elias and neo-Marxist economic dependency theory...Overall this book offers a wide-ranging introduction to sport migration. Subsequently, I suggest this would be an ideal text for an undergraduate paper on sport migration." 'e" Sport, Education and Society

Details ISBN0415498341 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2010 ISBN-10 0415498341 ISBN-13 9780415498340 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Mark Falcous Birth 1956 Subtitle Borders, Boundaries and Crossings DEWEY 306.483 Author Mark Falcous Media Book Publication Date 2010-10-06 Short Title SPORT & MIGRATION Language English Illustrations 23 Tables, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white UK Release Date 2010-10-06 AU Release Date 2010-10-06 NZ Release Date 2010-10-06 Alternative 9780415498333 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Pages 336 We've got this

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