Sport and migration : borders, boundaries and crossings / edited by Joseph Maguire and Mark Falcous.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Patterns of Migration and Sport -- -- From the South to Europe : a comparative analysis of African and Latin American football migration / Raffaele Poli and Roger Besson -- Why tax international athlete migration? The 'Coubertobin' tax in a context of financial crisis / Wladimir Andreff -- Moving with the bat and the ball : the migration of Japanese baseball labour, 1912-2009 / Yoshio Takahashi and John Horne -- From the Soviet bloc to the European Community : migrating professional footballers in and out of Hungary / Gyozo Molnar -- -- Part II. Bridgeheads in Migration and Sport -- -- Preliminary observations on globalisation and the migration of sport labour / Joseph Maguire -- Sport labour migration as a global value chain : the Dominican case / Alan Klein -- 'Net-gains' : informal recruiting, Canadian players and British professional ice hockey / Richard Elliott and Joseph Maguire -- 'Have board, will travel' : global physical youth cultures and trans-national mobility / Holly Thorpe -- -- Part III. Experiences of Migration and Sport -- -- Migrants, mercenaries and overstayers : talent migration in Pacific Island rugby / Andrew Grainger -- Blade runners : Canadian migrants and European ice hockey / Joseph Maguire -- Female football migration : motivational factors for early migratory processes / Sine Agergaard and Vera Botelho -- -- Part IV. Identities in Migration and Sport -- -- Globetrotters in local contexts : basketball migrants, fans and local identities / Mark Falcous and Joseph Maguire -- Diaspora and global sports migration : a case study in the English and New Zealand contexts / Toni Bruce and Belinda Wheaton -- Tries for the nation? International rugby players' perspectives on national identity / Jason Tuck -- -- Part V. Impacts of Migration on Sports and Societies -- -- The new international division of cultural labour and sport / Toby Miller, David Rowe and Geoffrey Lawrence -- Transnational athletes : celebrities and migrant players in fútbol and hockey / Ricardo Trumper and Lloyd L. Wong -- Out of Africa : the exodus of elite African football talent to Europe / Paul Darby -- Touring, travelling and accelerated mobilities : team and player mobilities in New Zealand rugby union / Camilla Obel and Terry Austrin -- Future directions : sporting mobilities, immobilities and moorings / Mark Falcous and Joseph Maguire.