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.
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'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
