Student athletic migration from Trinidad and Tobago

McCree, Roy

doi:10.4324/9780203544617-5

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“…Similar findings can be identified in the work of Tiesler (2014), where she examined the transnational movements of elite female footballers and identified the significance of networks as one strategy in the recruitment of these types of athletic workers. McCree’s (2014) analysis of the migrations of female footballers from Trinidad and Tobago to the United States illustrates similar trends.…”

Section: Network and Migrant Recruitmentmentioning

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Finding the back of the net: Networks and migrant recruitment in Norwegian football

Elliott

Gusterud

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The intention of this paper is to analyse the role that networks play in enabling the recruitment of a group of male migrant professional footballers employed by clubs based in Norway's top professional football league-the Tippeligaen. Based upon a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with migrants and recruiters, and synthesising concepts derived from the sociology of sport and the broader study of migration, the analysis identifies that the recruitment of migrant workers to Tippeligaen clubs reflects a mix of both formal and informal processes. Whilst agents operate as key actors in the mobilisation of foreign labour, the analysis shows how recruitments in this particular athletic context are also dependent on processes of human mediation facilitated by a series of informal interdependent networks of relationships.

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Section: Network and Migrant Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 79%

Finding the back of the net: Networks and migrant recruitment in Norwegian football

Elliott

Gusterud

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…A number of studies have shown how male and female soccer players, as well as their coaches and club managers in various destinations around the world, use friends‐of‐friends networks to gather knowledge about conditions at destination clubs or about the player being recruited (Agergaard and Tiesler ; Elliott and Gusterud ). As has been described for women's soccer migration, friends‐of‐friends networks facilitate transnational exchange of knowledge between current and former coaches, and/or players, while governing bodies may also be involved in facilitating the migration of talented players (McCree ; Takahashi ). Studies of African women's soccer migration into the Nordic countries draw attention to the fact that respected current players are consulted when clubs recruit new players (often from the same country).…”

Section: Being Transferred and Managing Initial Movesmentioning

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Ambivalent Precarity: Career Trajectories and Temporalities in Highly Skilled Sports Labor Migration from West Africa to Northern Europe

Agergaard

Ungruhe

2016

Anthropology of Work Review

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Transnational migrants are often considered to be the core of the new global precariat. On the one hand, migrants are particularly likely to become precariats, due to the outsourcing of precarious work to migrant workers and the attribution of precarious citizenship status to migrants. On the other hand, labor migrants’ accounts show that this precarity is not exclusively based on oppression, misery, and exploitation, but that labor migration is also driven by hope and the imagination of a better future; hardships may even open up new opportunities. This article aims to scrutinize the ambivalence of precarity and the ways in which precarization processes also appear in highly skilled labor migration (in this case sought‐after jobs as transnational athletes). The article draws on material from multisited field studies among aspiring and current soccer migrants. The experiences and conditions are described for female and male soccer players who originate from various West African settings and move to Northern European locations. The analysis finds ambivalent precarization processes at various points of the career. The temporality of precarization processes becomes apparent when comparing the large number of young men and women who strive to migrate to the few individuals who become professional players abroad but often struggle with occupational challenges after their careers. The article ends by suggesting an engagement with the ambivalences of precarious work in future studies, both in sport and other vocational sectors.

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The Print Media and Sport Nationalism in the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago’s 1990 World Cup Campaign

McCree

2023

Latin American Sport Media

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Student athletic migration from Trinidad and Tobago

Cited by 5 publications

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Finding the back of the net: Networks and migrant recruitment in Norwegian football

Finding the back of the net: Networks and migrant recruitment in Norwegian football

Ambivalent Precarity: Career Trajectories and Temporalities in Highly Skilled Sports Labor Migration from West Africa to Northern Europe

The Print Media and Sport Nationalism in the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago’s 1990 World Cup Campaign

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