The Global sports arena : athletic talent migration in an interdependent world /
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London ; Portland, Or. :
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1994.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Sports Labour Migration in the Global Arena / Joseph Maguire and John Bale
- 2. The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited: The Migration of Welsh Rugby Talent since 1918 / Gareth Williams
- 3. The Bogota Affair / Tony Mason
- 4. Cricket and the Imperial Connection: Overseas Players in Lancashire in the Inter-war Years / Jeffrey Hill
- 5. The Migration of Footballers: The Case of France, 1932-1982 / Pierre Lanfranchi
- 6. Blue Bonnets over the Border: Scotland and the Migration of Footballers / H. F. Moorhouse
- 7. Dimensions of International Talent Migration in Latin American Sports / Joseph L. Arbena
- 8. Skating on Thin Ice? The International Migration of Canadian Ice Hockey Players / Simon Genest
- 9. Professional Sports Migration to Finland during the 1980s / Kalevi Olin and Matti Penttila
- 10. Do Markets Make Footballers Free? / Fiona Miller and Steve Redhead
- 11. The Flood from the East? Perestroika and the Migration of Sports Talent from Eastern Europe / Vic Duke.
- 12. Foreign Footballers, Cultural Dreams and Community Identity in some North-western Mediterranean Cities / Christian Bromberger
- 13. Trans-nationalism, Labour Migration and Latin American Baseball / Alan M. Klein
- 14. Out of Africa: The 'Development' of Kenyan Athletics, Talent Migration and the Global Sports System / John Bale and Joe Sang
- 15. American Labour Migrants, Globalization and the Making of English Basketball / Joseph Maguire
- 16. Travelling, Comparing, Emigrating: Configurations of Sport Mobility / Henning Eichberg
- Postcript: An Agenda for Research on Sports Labour Migration / Joseph Maguire and John Bale.