Daniel T. Buffington

The Global Migration of Soccer Players (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using quantitative data on player movement as well as interviews with agents, players, coaches, and team staff, The Global Migration of Soccer Players compares and contrasts the movement of highly skilled athletes to more general migrant streams. Grounded in the sociology of migration, the book addresses two major questions. First, why do players leave their country of birth to seek opportunities abroad? Second, once players find themselves living and working in a new country, how do they adapt or adjust to these unfamiliar surroundings?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498572828
• Artikelnr.: 57495232

Autorenporträt

Daniel Buffington is associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Broad Patterns of Contemporary International Soccer Migration
Chapter Two: Why Do Players Migrate? Motivations for Migration and the
Decision-Making Process
Chapter Three: Labor Market Matching: How Players and Teams Meet
Chapter Four: The Burden of Migration: Issues of Adjustment and
Incorporation
Conclusion: Soccer in the Age of Migration