African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories

African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent.

ISBN-13: 9781526171993

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Publication Date: 07-25-2023

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d

Series: Globalizing Sport Studies

Paul Darby is a Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University

James Esson is a Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University

Christian Ungruhe is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Erasmus University Rotterdam