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African football migration: aspirations, experiences and trajectories

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posted on 2021-09-22, 09:02 authored by Paul Darby, James Esson, Christian Ungruhe
Africans have long graced football fields around the world. The success of icons such as Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fueled the migratory projects of countless male youth across the continent. Using over a decade of ethnographic research, African football migration traces the historical, geographical and regulatory features of this migratory process.While a fortunate few do forge a successful career overseas, the book reveals how the vast majority experience involuntary immobility. Meanwhile others who are able to 'go outside' encounter truncated careers at the margins of the industry followed by precarious post-playing career lives. In unpacking these issues, African football migration offers fresh perspectives on the transnational strategies deployed by youth and young men striving to improve their life chances in post-colonial Africa, and the role that mobility, imagined and enacted, plays in these struggles.

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School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Geography and Environment

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

ISBN

9781526120267; 9781526120298

Book series

Globalizing Sport Studies

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr James Esson. Deposit date: 21 September 2021

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