"The World at their Feet": Professional Football and International Labor Migration  

Oleh:

Magee, Jonathan ; Sugden, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sport and Social Issues vol. 26 no. 4 (Nov. 2002), page 421-437.
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The global migration of footballers to and within the top professional leagues in Europe has greatlyaccelerated in the last decade. Commercial interests in this “football business” have also grown prodigiouslyand the English leagues, especiallythe Premier League, have experienced an associated and pronounced increase in foreign player migration. The Premier League, supported byintensive commercial investment, has placed England on the career map of some top global stars.The globalization of football and its labor migrants can onlybe considered as part of a multifaceted and multidirectional process. This paper provides a model for understanding the globalization of football and the movement of its labor, but also probes beneath this model, drawing on findings from interview-based interpretative research conducted with foreign professional players in England (n = 22). A typology based on player experiences is established, explaining some of the key experiential dimensions of sports labor migration.

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