African Football Migration - Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories

African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent.

About the author

Paul Darby is a Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University

Summary

African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Paul Darby, Paul Esson Darby, Darby Paul, James Esson, Christian Ungruhe
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781526120267
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2026-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Globalizing Sport Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, SPORTS & RECREATION / Football, Sociology: sport & leisure, Migration, immigration & emigration, Sociology: sport and leisure, Migration, immigration and emigration