African Football Migration - Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories

Informationen zum Autor Paul Darby is a Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University James Esson is a Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University Christian Ungruhe is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Erasmus University Rotterdam Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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, Dr Christian Ungruhe
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781526171993
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7199-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Globalizing Sport Studies; Globalizing Sports Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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