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Sport and Migration : Borders, Boundaries and Crossings.
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 labour, encouraged and f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Taylor & Francis
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Borders, boundaries and crossings
- Part I Patterns of migration and sport
- 1 From the South to Europe: A comparative analysis of African and Latin American football migration
- 2 Why tax international athlete migration?: The 8216;Coubertobin tax in a context of financial crisis
- 3 Moving with the bat and the ball: The migration of Japanese baseball labour, 19122009
- 4 From the Soviet Bloc to the European Community: Migrating professional footballers in and out of Hungary
- Part II Bridgeheads in migration and sport
- 5 Preliminary observations on globalisation and the migration of sport labour
- 6 Sport labour migration as a global value chain The Dominican case
- 7 8216;Net-gains: Informal recruiting, Canadian players and British professional ice hockey
- 8 8216;Have board, will travel: Global physical youth cultures and trans-national mobility1
- Part III 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
- Part IV 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 contexts
- 14 Tries for the nation?: International rugby players perspectives on national identity
- Part V 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 f250;tbol 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
- References and bibliography
- Index.