Darby / Esson / Ungruhe African football migration

Aspirations, experiences and trajectories
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2027-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Globalizing Sport Studies

African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Darby, Paul

Esson, James

Ungruhe, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten American Football Fußball
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Theorising African football migration
2 The history, geography and regulation of African football migration
3 ‘Producing’ African labour for the global football industry
4 Speculation in and through football migration
5 ‘Becoming a somebody’ through football
6 Luck, sackings and involuntary immobility in football
7 Navigating liminality in foreign football industries
8 Hope and precarity in transnational football careers
9 Post-playing-career transitions and struggles
Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Darby is a Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University

James Esson is a Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University

Christian Ungruhe is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Erasmus University Rotterdam