| Description |
xii, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Papers originally presented during a colloquium at Keele University, April 1991. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Sports labour migration in the global arena / J. Maguire and J. Bale -- The road to Wigan Pier revisited : the migration of Welsh Rugby talent since 1918 / G. Williams -- The Bogota affair / T. Mason -- Cricket and the imperial connection : overseas players in Lancashire in the inter-war years / J. Hill -- The migration of footballers : the case of France, 1932-1982 / P. Lanfranchi -- Blue bonnets over the border : Scotland and the migration of footballers / H. F. Moorhouse -- Dimensions of international talent migration in Latin American sports / J. L. Arbena -- Skating on thin ice? The international migration of Canadian ice hockey players / S. Genest -- Professional sports migration to Finland during the 1980s / K. Olin and M. Penttila -- Do markets make footballers free? / F. Miller and S. Redhead -- The flood from the East? Perestroika and the migration of sports talents from Eastern Europe / V. Duke -- Foreign footballers, cultural dreams and community identity in some north-western Mediterranean cities / C. Bromberger -- Transnationalism, labour migration and Latin American baseball / A. K. Klein -- Out of Africa : the development of Kenyan athletics, talent migration and the global sports system / J. Bale and J. Sang -- American labour migrants, globalization and the making of English basketball / J. Maguire -- Travelling, comparing, emigrating : configurations of sport mobility / H. Eichberg -- Postscript : an agenda for research on sports labour migration / J. Maguire and J. Bale. |
| Subject |
Athletes -- Relocation.
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Emigration and immigration.
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| Added Author |
Bale, John.
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Maguire, Joseph A., 1956-
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| ISBN |
0714634891 (cloth) : $27.00 |
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0714641162 (paper) |
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