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Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport migration is gaining momentum and that it is closely interwoven with the broader process of global sport development taking place in the late twentieth century.
| Notes on Contributors | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Sports Labour Migration in the Global Arena | 1 |
| 2 | The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited: The Migration of Welsh Rugby Talent since 1918 | 25 |
| 3 | The Bogota Affair | 39 |
| 4 | Cricket and the Imperial Connection: Overseas Players in Lancashire in the Inter-war Years | 49 |
| 5 | The Migration of Footballers: The Case of France, 1932-1982 | 63 |
| 6 | Blue Bonnets over the Border: Scotland and the Migration of Footballers | 78 |
| 7 | Dimensions of International Talent Migration in Latin American Sports | 99 |
| 8 | Skating on Thin Ice? The International Migration of Canadian Ice Hockey Players | 112 |
| 9 | Professional Sports Migration to Finland during the 1980s | 126 |
| 10 | Do Markets Make Footballers Free? | 141 |
| 11 | The Flood from the East? Perestroika and the Migration of Sports Talent from Eastern Europe | 153 |
| 12 | Foreign Footballers, Cultural Dreams and Community Identity in some North-western Mediterranean Cities | 171 |
| 13 | Trans-nationalism, Labour Migration and Latin American Baseball | 183 |
| 14 | Out of Africa: The 'Development' of Kenyan Athletics, Talent Migration and the Global Sports System | 206 |
| 15 | American Labour Migrants, Globalization and the Making of English Basketball | 226 |
| 16 | Travelling, Comparing, Emigrating: Configurations of Sport Mobility | 256 |
| Postcript: An Agenda for Research on Sports Labour Migration | 281 | |
| Index | 285 |
Overview
Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport migration is gaining momentum and that it is closely interwoven with the broader process of global sport development taking place in the late twentieth century.