Football is an incredibly powerful case study of globalization
and an extremely useful lens through which to study and understand
contemporary processes of international migration. This is the
first book to focus on the increasingly complex series of migratory
processes that contour the contemporary game, drawing on
multi-disciplinary approaches from sociology, history, geography
and anthropology to explore migration in football in established,
emerging and transitional contexts.
The book examines shifting migration patterns over time and
across space, and analyses the sociological dynamics that drive and
influence those patterns. It presents in-depth case studies of
migration in elite men s football, exploring the role of
established leagues in Europe and South America as well as
important emerging leagues on football's frontier in North America
and Asia. The final section of the book analyses the movement of
groups who have rarely been the focus of migration research before,
including female professional players, elite youth players, amateur
players and players families, drawing on important new research in
Ghana, England, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Few other sports have such a global reach and therefore few
other sports are such an important location for cross-cultural
research and insight across the social sciences. This book is
engaging reading for any student or scholar with an interest in
sport, sociology, human geography, migration, international labour
flows, globalization, development or post-colonial studies. "
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