Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration

ISBN-13: 9780415824590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 238 str.

Sine Agergaard; Nina Clara Tiesler

Opis

Estimated participation figures of almost 30 million worldwide make soccer the most prominent team sport amongst girls and women. However, making a living as a female player is only deemed possible in approximately 20 out of around 150 FIFA-listed women's soccer countries. This has led to a situation where highly skilled sports women have to migrate from their homelands to find employment with a professional team. This title represents a substantial contribution to our knowledge on the development of women's soccer, to research into sports labour migration and sport and globalization more broadly.

Spis treści

Part I - Globalization, Migration and Women’s Soccer: state of the art, history and current patterns  Chapter 1. Introduction. Globalization, Sports Labor Migration and Women’s Mobilities  Chapter 2. ‘Soccer Matters Very Much, Every Day’: Player Migration and Motivation in Professional Women’s Soccer  Chapter 3. Current fluxes in women’s soccer migration. Towards understanding the circularity of athletic mobility and skills-exchange  Part II - Women’s soccer across the globe: case studies of migratory flows and experiences  Chapter 4. The Continental Drift to a Zone of Prestige. Women’s Soccer Migration to the U.S. NCAA Division One 2000 – 2010  Chapter 5. Student Athletic Migration from Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of Women’s Soccer  Chapter 6. New Frontiers: The Transnational Circulation of Brazil’s Women Soccer Players  Chapter 7. International Migration of Japanese Women in World Soccer  Chapter 8. Leaving the Core? The Emigration of Scandinavian Women Soccer Players  Chapter 9. Momentous spark or enduring enthusiasm? The 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup and its impact on players’ mobility and on the popularity of women’s soccer in Germany  Part III - Developing transnational perspectives on sports migration: A conceptual framework  Chapter 10. On Mobility and Visibility in Women’s Soccer: theorizing an alternative approach to sport migration  Chapter 11. Bringing Gender into Sports Labor Migration Research: Gendered Geographies of Power in African women’s soccer migration  Chapter 12. The typology of athletic migrants revisited. Transnational settlers, sojourners and mobiles