African Footballers in Sweden: Race, Immigration, and Integration in the Age of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9781137542076 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 292 str.

Carl-Gustaf Scott

Opis

This book employs men's football as a lens through which to investigate questions relating to immigration, racism, integration and national identity in present-day Sweden. Specifically, this study explores if professional football serves as a successful model of multiracialism/multiculturalism for the rest of Swedish society to emulate, and further asks whether the amateur game acts as an avenue of integration for members of the country's non-Nordic immigrant communities. This work additionally examines both overt and more hidden institutional forms of racism in Swedish football, paying special attention to the experiences of African (and other black) footballers at all levels of the sport. All of these subjects are, in turn, considered in a broader, comparative, West European context.

Recenzje

"African Footballers in Sweden is a highly original, exceedingly well-researched, and profoundly empathetic book. It should be required reading for scholars, students, journalists, and thoughtful fans concerned about racism, the causes and effects of immigration, and the role of sport in an increasingly global Europe." (Peter Alegi, Idrotts Forum, idrottsforum.org, February, 2016)

O autorze

Carl-Gustaf Scott received his PhD in Modern European/Scandinavian History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research examines contemporary Swedish history in a broader, comparative, European context, and his work has appeared in, among other places, The Journal of Contemporary History, European History Quarterly, Cold War History, The Scandinavian Journal of History, and Social History and Immigrants and Minorities.