Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration by Sine Agergaard (English) Hardcover

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Estimated participation figures of almost 30 million worldwide make soccer the most prominent team sport amongst girls and women. However, making a living as a female player is only deemed possible in approximately 20 out of around 150 FIFA-listed women's soccer countries. This has led to a situation where highly skilled sports women have to migrate from their homelands to find employment with a professional team. Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration represents a substantial contribution to our knowledge on the development of women's soccer, to research into sports labor migration and sport and globalization more broadly.The book consists of three parts. Firstly, it provides an overview and an analysis of migration in women's soccer from its earliest forms until now. It then presents several case studies, delivered by scholars from around the world, illustrating how female players are increasingly being drawn to the USA, Northern Europe and Scandinavia due to their ability to support professional leagues. Finally, all the themes and patterns of these case studies are drawn together to be able to compare and contrast migration in women's soccer to sport migration and globalization more broadly.This study not only makes recommendations for future researchers, but may also serve as an important source of information for those in charge of policy. As such, it is essential reading for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners involved in sports migration and women's sport.

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Sine Agergaard is a social anthropologist and an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research on migration issues within sports has been published in a number of articles and books. She is currently the head of a Nordic collaborative research project studying the case of women's soccer migration. Nina Clara Tiesler is a sociologist and a religious studies and migration scholar. She is a senior lecturer at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, and is an associated research fellow at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She coordinated the international study Diasbola and held the Joao Havelange Grant in 2012–13.

Table of Contents

Part I - Globalization, Migration and Women's Soccer: state of the art, history and current patterns Chapter 1. Introduction. Globalization, Sports Labor Migration and Women's Mobilities Chapter 2. 'Soccer Matters Very Much, Every Day': Player Migration and Motivation in Professional Women's Soccer Chapter 3. Current fluxes in women's soccer migration. Towards understanding the circularity of athletic mobility and skills-exchange Part II - Women's soccer across the globe: case studies of migratory flows and experiences Chapter 4. The Continental Drift to a Zone of Prestige. Women's Soccer Migration to the U.S. NCAA Division One 2000 – 2010 Chapter 5. Student Athletic Migration from Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of Women's Soccer Chapter 6. New Frontiers: The Transnational Circulation of Brazil's Women Soccer Players Chapter 7. International Migration of Japanese Women in World Soccer Chapter 8. Leaving the Core? The Emigration of Scandinavian Women Soccer Players Chapter 9. Momentous spark or enduring enthusiasm? The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and its impact on players' mobility and on the popularity of women's soccer in Germany Part III - Developing transnational perspectives on sports migration: A conceptual framework Chapter 10. On Mobility and Visibility in Women's Soccer: theorizing an alternative approach to sport migration Chapter 11. Bringing Gender into Sports Labor Migration Research: Gendered Geographies of Power in African women's soccer migration Chapter 12. The typology of athletic migrants revisited. Transnational settlers, sojourners and mobiles

Review

'This thoughtful selection of theoretical and original research articles is international and interdisciplinary in scope. One is tempted to dismiss the topic as insignificant; however, the book touches on important contemporary social issues: gender, sport and society, globalization of sports, professionalization, women’s international labor migration, and skilled transnational labor migration.... The book's unique contribution lies in advancing a transnational perspective of labor migration. The editors have done a great job of bracketing the empirical studies with theoretical discussions. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - G. K. Hearn, Idaho State University, CHOICE April 2015 "Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration is the first book of its kind, and its publication could not be more timely. This work discusses multicultural research guided by a rich variety of perspectives on sport-labor migration. The book's greatest contribution is its gendered analysis of the various aspects of sport-labor migration from around the world. Women and men's scholarly contributions to this work from a variety of disciplines (sport studies, anthropology, and sociology) also help provide rich content and thoughtful experiential and theoretical frames."— B. Nalani Butler, University of Tampa, USA, International Journal of Sport Communication

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'This thoughtful selection of theoretical and original research articles is international and interdisciplinary in scope. One is tempted to dismiss the topic as insignificant; however, the book touches on important contemporary social issues: gender, sport and society, globalization of sports, professionalization, women'e(tm)s international labor migration, and skilled transnational labor migration.... The book's unique contribution lies in advancing a transnational perspective of labor migration. The editors have done a great job of bracketing the empirical studies with theoretical discussions. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - G. K. Hearn, Idaho State University, CHOICE April 2015 "Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration is the first book of its kind, and its publication could not be more timely. This work discusses multicultural research guided by a rich variety of perspectives on sport-labor migration. The book's greatest contribution is its gendered analysis of the various aspects of sport-labor migration from around the world. Women and men's scholarly contributions to this work from a variety of disciplines (sport studies, anthropology, and sociology) also help provide rich content and thoughtful experiential and theoretical frames."-- B. Nalani Butler, University of Tampa, USA, International Journal of Sport Communication d by a rich variety of perspectives on sport-labor migration. The book's greatest contribution is its gendered analysis of the various aspects of sport-labor migration from around the world. Women and men's scholarly contributions to this work from a variety of disciplines (sport studies, anthropology, and sociology) also help provide rich content and thoughtful experiential and theoretical frames."-- B. Nalani Butler, University of Tampa, USA, International Journal of Sport Communication

Details ISBN0415824591 Short Title WOMEN SOCCER & TRANSNATIONAL M Language English ISBN-10 0415824591 ISBN-13 9780415824590 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-07-24 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Nina Tiesler DEWEY 796.334082 Pages 238 Illustrations 17 Tables, black and white UK Release Date 2014-07-24 AU Release Date 2014-07-24 NZ Release Date 2014-07-24 Author Nina Tiesler Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Alternative 9781138654242 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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