Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age

Besnier, Niko; Calabrò, Domenica Gisella; Guinness, Daniel

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“…As abordagens antropológicas (Besnier;Calabró;Guiness, 2021) mostram como as aspirações dos atletas se estruturam em projetos diferenciados em função das situações desportivas em que se encontram. Ou seja, estruturam-se em função da modalidade particular através da qual pretendem desenvolver uma carreira desportiva, das estruturas desportivas do país onde se encontram e das redes de que fazem parte estes aspirantes a profissionais.…”

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O jogo da vida: estratégias e táticas da mobilidade migratória de futebolistas africanos para Portugal

Nolasco,

Oliveira

2024

MOTRICIDADES: Rev. SPQMH

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O jogo da vida: estratégias e táticas da mobilidade migratória de futebolistas africanos para Portugal ResumoEste texto, numa abordagem relacional, trata do tema das mobilidades migratórias no futebol, debruçando-se sobre a migração de jovens futebolistas africanos, em particular, jogadores da Guiné-Bissau para Portugal. Centra-se essencialmente nos jogadores sem visibilidade mediática, vulneráveis a estratégias e lógicas que os transcendem. Com base numa investigação qualitativa, realizada no âmbito de um projeto europeu sobre a integração de jogadores africanos na Europa, esta comunicação levanta a questão das redes de poder que se estabelecem no país de origem e no país de acolhimento, as estruturas de recrutamento destes jogadores, as motivações para migrar, e as formas de lidar com os projetos falhados devido à impossibilidade de ter sucesso no mundo altamente competitivo do futebol.Palavras-chave: Mobilidades. Migrações. Migração de Trabalho Desportivo. Futebolistas Africanos. Futebol Português. The game of life: strategies and tactics in the migration of African footballers to Portugal AbstractThis text takes a relational approach to the subject of migratory mobility in football, focusing on the migration of young African footballers, particularly players from Guinea-Bissau to Portugal. It essentially focuses on players without media visibility, who are vulnerable to strategies and logics that transcend them. Based on qualitative research carried out as part of a European project on the integration of African players in Europe, this communication raises the question of the power networks that are established in the country of origin and in the host country, the recruitment structures of these players, the motivations for migrating, and the ways of dealing with failed projects due to the impossibility of succeeding in the highly competitive world of football.Keywords: Mobilities. Migrations. Sports Labour Migration. African Footballers. Portuguese Football. El juego de la vida: estrategias y tácticas en la movilidad migratoria de futbolistas africanos a Portugal ResumenEste texto adopta un enfoque relacional del tema de la movilidad migratoria en el fútbol, centrándose en la migración de jóvenes futbolistas africanos, en particular de jugadores de Guinea-Bissau a Portugal. Se centra esencialmente en jugadores sin visibilidad mediática, vulnerables a estrategias y lógicas que los trascienden. A partir de una investigación cualitativa realizada en el marco de un proyecto europeo sobre la integración de los jugadores africanos en Europa, este trabajo plantea la cuestión de las redes de poder que se establecen en el país de origen y en el país de acogida, las estructuras de reclutamiento de estos jugadores, las motivaciones para emigrar y las formas de afrontar los proyectos fracasados debido a la imposibilidad de triunfar en el mundo altamente competitivo del fútbol.Palabras clave: Movilidades. Migraciones. Migración Laboral Deportiva. Futbolistas Africanos. Fútbol Portugués.

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O jogo da vida: estratégias e táticas da mobilidade migratória de futebolistas africanos para Portugal

Nolasco,

Oliveira

2024

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“…In many cases the colonial pathways that carried sports migrants of the past are now subsumed into what we call the infrastructure of global sport, but the colonial traces live very much in the present (Grainger, 2011). In this context the global vision hides as much as or more than it illuminates, and to understand what is happening in any given area of the sport world requires attending to local and contingent connections within and across established pathways (Besnier et al, 2020).…”

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Is It All a Dream? Global Movement and the Gossamer of “Globalization”

Uperesa

2023

Globalization: Past, Present, Future

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Sedimented orientations to the concept of globalization today often rest on a technocratic triumphalism—“time-space compression”—made possible by emerging technologies, “flows” of various kinds transforming “-scapes” they transit and shape, capital straining toward unfettered freedom stalking new markets and shaping governance possibilities, the movement of humanity facilitated by infrastructure, and cities that serve as pulsating nodes of a global order. Not only does this triumphalist vision exclude vast swathes of the globe, it draws on a set of ideologies and ontologies from the West to represent global pasts, presents, and futures to all. These exclusions and focal points are not just coincidental, but mutually constituting. With attention to two topics often situated within globalization imaginaries—mobility discourses and sport ideologies—this chapter engages Pacific worldviews of movement to probe the limits of globalization as a conceptual framework. Focusing on strands of what becomes obscured as global movement, it suggests that adopting a kaleidoscopic approach attentive to historical contingency, transnational connections, place, and competing ontologies helps us to understand better the dynamics of our time.

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Globalization: Past, Present, Future

2023

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Since the end of the Cold War, globalization—the process and the idea—has been reshaping the world. Global studies scholarship has emerged to make sense of the transnational manifestations of globalization: economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and postcolonial. But a series of crises in the first two decades of the twenty-first century has put the neoliberal globalization system of the 1990s under severe strain. Are we witnessing a turn toward “deglobalization,” intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine or a moment of “reglobalization,” spearheaded by digital technology? The contributors to this book employ transdisciplinary research to assess past developments, the current state, and future trajectories of globalization in light of today’s dynamics of insecurity, volatility, and geopolitical tensions.

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Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age

Cited by 8 publications

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O jogo da vida: estratégias e táticas da mobilidade migratória de futebolistas africanos para Portugal

O jogo da vida: estratégias e táticas da mobilidade migratória de futebolistas africanos para Portugal

Is It All a Dream? Global Movement and the Gossamer of “Globalization”

Globalization: Past, Present, Future

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