Sport and migration: borders, boundaries and crossings

Introduction: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings: Sport, Migration and Identities

Section One. Patterns of Migration and Sport

1. From the South to Europe: A Comparative Analysis of African and Latin American Football Migration

2. "Why tax athletes' international migration?" The Coubertobin tax in a Context of Financial Crisis

3. Moving with the Bat and the Ball: the Migration of Japanese Baseball Labour 1912-2009

4. From the Soviet Bloc to the European Community: Migrating Professional Footballers in and out of Hungary

Section Two. Bridgeheads in Migration and Sport

5. Preliminary Observations on Globalisation and the Migration of Sport Labour

6. Sports Labour Migration as a Global Value Chain: The Dominican Case

7. Net-gains': Informal recruiting, Canadian players and British professional ice hockey

8. "Have Board will travel": Global Physical Youth Cultures and Transnational Mobility

Section Three. Experiences of Migration and Sport

9. Migrants, Mercenaries, and Overstayers: Talent Migration in Pacific Island Rugby

10. Blade Runners: Canadian Migrants and European Ice Hockey

11. Female Football Migration: Motivational Factors for early Migratory Processes

Section Four. Identities in Migration and Sport

12. Globetrotters in local contexts: basketball migrants, Fans and local identities

13. Diaspora and Global Sports Migration: A case study in the English and New Zealand Context

14. Tries for the Nation?: International Rugby Players' Perspectives on National Identity

Section Five. Impacts of Migration on Sports and Societies

15. The New International Division of Cultural Labour and Sport

16. Transnational Athletes: Celebrities and Migrant Players in Futbol and Hockey

17. Out of Africa: The Exodus of Elite African Football Talent to Europe

18. Touring, Travelling and Accelerated Mobilities: Team and Player Mobilities in New Zealand Rugby Union Future Directions: Sporting Mobilities, Immobilities and Mobilities in New Zealand Rugby Union.