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Handbook on Sport and Migration
This insightful Handbook explores how sport intersects the experiences of asylum seekers, refugees, workers and migrants. Editors Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston and Mark Falcous bring together esteemed experts who draw on globally diverse cases studies to capture the complexities surrounding sport and migration, revealing how it is embedded in the wider power struggles that characterize global sport.
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This insightful Handbook explores how sport intersects the experiences of asylum seekers, refugees, workers and migrants. Editors Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston and Mark Falcous bring together esteemed experts to capture the complex dynamics surrounding how sport migrations are embedded in the wider power struggles that characterize global sport.
Analysing a range of case studies across the globe, chapter authors examine the control exercised by various stakeholders, both sporting and non-sporting, and how their actions contour migration experiences. They cover matters such as globalization, national identity, and intercultural communication, as well as in-depth issues including talent pipelines, bridgeheads and the stereotyping of athletes from different class, ethnic and gender groups. The dynamics of sports migration are highlighted when revealing the tensions concerning the promotion of commercial spectacle versus the advocacy of national and local identities, and the search for short term viability versus longer term development.
The Handbook on Sport and Migration is invaluable for students and scholars of sport law, sociology, migration, policy and globalization. It will also appeal to those working in sport management, sport psychology, exercise sciences, kinesiology, and international migration policy.
Analysing a range of case studies across the globe, chapter authors examine the control exercised by various stakeholders, both sporting and non-sporting, and how their actions contour migration experiences. They cover matters such as globalization, national identity, and intercultural communication, as well as in-depth issues including talent pipelines, bridgeheads and the stereotyping of athletes from different class, ethnic and gender groups. The dynamics of sports migration are highlighted when revealing the tensions concerning the promotion of commercial spectacle versus the advocacy of national and local identities, and the search for short term viability versus longer term development.
The Handbook on Sport and Migration is invaluable for students and scholars of sport law, sociology, migration, policy and globalization. It will also appeal to those working in sport management, sport psychology, exercise sciences, kinesiology, and international migration policy.
Critical Acclaim
‘Edited by three of the most influential scholars in the global sociology of sport, the Handbook on Sport and Migration is a definitional text in the sub-field. Taking as the central foci how global sports systems are foundationally based on the flow of athletes between nations, and how such fluidity veritably shapes contemporary constructions of nationhood, space, boundaries, labour, economics, and identity/selfhood, the collection showcases theoretically compelling and substantively rich case studies from around the sporting globe. Handbook on Sport and Migration presents the most nuanced, comprehensive, comparative, and inclusive collection on sport migration from the micro-contextual to the transnational. As such, it is a clarion call for anyone fascinated with global sports studies.’
– Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto, Canada
‘This scholarly work on sports migration offers a novel perspective on the intricate dynamics within the global sports framework and its attendant power dynamics. Specifically, it delves into the prevailing stereotypes concerning the classification of migrants, the ascription of attributes to athletes, and the commodification thereof. This text serves as an invaluable resource, not only enhancing our comprehension of the nuanced interplay between sports and migration but also broadening our insight into migratory phenomena at large.’
– Fabien Ohl, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
‘A timely and provocative resource that builds upon decades of work in migration, geography, sociology, and sports studies. This book brings together a global team of scholars who provide keen insight into the dynamics of labor, mobility, migration, economy, and power in the sporting worlds of the 21st century.’
– Christopher Gaffney, New York University, US
– Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto, Canada
‘This scholarly work on sports migration offers a novel perspective on the intricate dynamics within the global sports framework and its attendant power dynamics. Specifically, it delves into the prevailing stereotypes concerning the classification of migrants, the ascription of attributes to athletes, and the commodification thereof. This text serves as an invaluable resource, not only enhancing our comprehension of the nuanced interplay between sports and migration but also broadening our insight into migratory phenomena at large.’
– Fabien Ohl, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
‘A timely and provocative resource that builds upon decades of work in migration, geography, sociology, and sports studies. This book brings together a global team of scholars who provide keen insight into the dynamics of labor, mobility, migration, economy, and power in the sporting worlds of the 21st century.’
– Christopher Gaffney, New York University, US
Contents
Contents
Introduction: making sense of sport, space, place, identities and migration 1
Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston and Mark Falcous
PART I SPORTING MOBILITIES: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
1 Geography, migration and sport 11
Nicholas Wise
2 Football mobilities: a global player transfer market 22
Rafaelle Poli, Roger Besson and Loïc Ravenel
3 Soccer migration from Trinidad and Tobago: the case of the NASL, 1968–1984 38
Roy McCree
4 Athletes’ migration in Brazil: social inequality and intersectionality as
possible analytical dimensions 49
Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques and Wanderley Marchi Júnior
5 Sport labour migrants out of Africa 62
Jepkorir Rose Chepyator-Thomson, Abdulsamad Yusuf, Sean Seiler and
Chenelle Goyen
6 Fijian migrant athletes in the world of professional rugby 73
Dominik Schieder
7 Exceptionalism and sport migration: the North American perspective 86
Alan Klein
PART II SPORTING SPACES, PLACES AND IDENTITIES
8 Sport, migration and gender 96
Sine Agergaard
9 ‘A field of broken dreams?’: the precarious social realities of male
migrant footballers from Northern Ireland 104
Ryan Adams, Paul Darby and Katie Liston
10 “Outsiders within”: sport, naturalisation, and the construction of black
Korean runners 114
Yeomi Choi
11 International student-athletes and the basketball world system: African
talent pipelines and Japanese pathways 123
Naoki Chiba and Mark Falcous
12 Sports migration to Gulf Cooperation Council states: the intersection of
economic growth and sport development 140
Mahfoud Amara and Gerard Akindes
13 Navigators for the new millennium: towards a view of the global
Samoan sports diaspora 150
Lisa Uperesa
14 Cultural hybridity, simultaneous embeddedness and the complexities of
capoeira in New Zealand 162
Janelle Joseph and Mark Falcous
PART III GOVERNANCE, REGULATION AND BOUNDARIES
15 Sport, migration, nation-states, and the sports-medical industrial complex 176
Joseph Maguire
16 From imported athletes to home-grown talents: long-term residents in
Qatari national sports teams 187
Zahra Babar and Danyel Reiche
17 Regulation or encouragement? China’s labour migration policies for
table tennis, basketball and football players 197
Yu-Wen Chen and Tien-Chin Tan
18 African football labour migration: governance, impact, and consequences 207
Wycliffe W. Simiyu Njororai
19 The diversification of the composition of national football teams 218
Gijs Van Campenhout
20 Import–export value variance in Czech sport 229
William Crossan
21 Out of control: professional footballers, migration, and the
consequences for mental health 242
Richard Elliott
PART IV IMMIGRATIONS, REFUGEES AND CONTROLS
22 Informal sport migration as a process of becoming: a digital
ethnography of young Gazan parkour athletes 253
Holly Thorpe
23 Moving through paradox: forced migration, liminality, and sports 265
Maikel Waardenburg
24 Trying to insert themselves as a square peg into a round hole:
experiences of newcomers as coaches in the Canadian amateur sport system 274
Lori A. Livingston
25 Sport, return visits and transnational identity: South Korean-New
Zealanders’ participation in the Korean National Sports Festival 285
Ik Young Chang, Kyu Jin Jin and Steven J. Jackson
26 Sport, refugees and forced migration: critical dialogues and questions
amid diminishing rights and expanding borders 295
Nicola De Martini Ugolotti
27 Children’s rights, sport and migration 307
Eleanor Drywood, Paul Darby, James Esson, Carolynne Mason and Serhat
Yilmaz
Introduction: making sense of sport, space, place, identities and migration 1
Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston and Mark Falcous
PART I SPORTING MOBILITIES: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
1 Geography, migration and sport 11
Nicholas Wise
2 Football mobilities: a global player transfer market 22
Rafaelle Poli, Roger Besson and Loïc Ravenel
3 Soccer migration from Trinidad and Tobago: the case of the NASL, 1968–1984 38
Roy McCree
4 Athletes’ migration in Brazil: social inequality and intersectionality as
possible analytical dimensions 49
Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques and Wanderley Marchi Júnior
5 Sport labour migrants out of Africa 62
Jepkorir Rose Chepyator-Thomson, Abdulsamad Yusuf, Sean Seiler and
Chenelle Goyen
6 Fijian migrant athletes in the world of professional rugby 73
Dominik Schieder
7 Exceptionalism and sport migration: the North American perspective 86
Alan Klein
PART II SPORTING SPACES, PLACES AND IDENTITIES
8 Sport, migration and gender 96
Sine Agergaard
9 ‘A field of broken dreams?’: the precarious social realities of male
migrant footballers from Northern Ireland 104
Ryan Adams, Paul Darby and Katie Liston
10 “Outsiders within”: sport, naturalisation, and the construction of black
Korean runners 114
Yeomi Choi
11 International student-athletes and the basketball world system: African
talent pipelines and Japanese pathways 123
Naoki Chiba and Mark Falcous
12 Sports migration to Gulf Cooperation Council states: the intersection of
economic growth and sport development 140
Mahfoud Amara and Gerard Akindes
13 Navigators for the new millennium: towards a view of the global
Samoan sports diaspora 150
Lisa Uperesa
14 Cultural hybridity, simultaneous embeddedness and the complexities of
capoeira in New Zealand 162
Janelle Joseph and Mark Falcous
PART III GOVERNANCE, REGULATION AND BOUNDARIES
15 Sport, migration, nation-states, and the sports-medical industrial complex 176
Joseph Maguire
16 From imported athletes to home-grown talents: long-term residents in
Qatari national sports teams 187
Zahra Babar and Danyel Reiche
17 Regulation or encouragement? China’s labour migration policies for
table tennis, basketball and football players 197
Yu-Wen Chen and Tien-Chin Tan
18 African football labour migration: governance, impact, and consequences 207
Wycliffe W. Simiyu Njororai
19 The diversification of the composition of national football teams 218
Gijs Van Campenhout
20 Import–export value variance in Czech sport 229
William Crossan
21 Out of control: professional footballers, migration, and the
consequences for mental health 242
Richard Elliott
PART IV IMMIGRATIONS, REFUGEES AND CONTROLS
22 Informal sport migration as a process of becoming: a digital
ethnography of young Gazan parkour athletes 253
Holly Thorpe
23 Moving through paradox: forced migration, liminality, and sports 265
Maikel Waardenburg
24 Trying to insert themselves as a square peg into a round hole:
experiences of newcomers as coaches in the Canadian amateur sport system 274
Lori A. Livingston
25 Sport, return visits and transnational identity: South Korean-New
Zealanders’ participation in the Korean National Sports Festival 285
Ik Young Chang, Kyu Jin Jin and Steven J. Jackson
26 Sport, refugees and forced migration: critical dialogues and questions
amid diminishing rights and expanding borders 295
Nicola De Martini Ugolotti
27 Children’s rights, sport and migration 307
Eleanor Drywood, Paul Darby, James Esson, Carolynne Mason and Serhat
Yilmaz
