'The World at their Feet'
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Loughborough University, Universities of Essex and Liverpool in the United Kingdom, and the University of Connecticut in the United States |
| ANO | 2002 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Journal of Sport and Social Issues |
| ISSN | 0193-7235 |
| E-ISSN | 1552-7638 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0193732502238257 |
| CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
317426b7977382d3045f56c980a27a3a
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Resumo
The global migration of footballers to and within the top professional leagues in Europe has greatly accelerated in the last decade. Commercial interests in this 'football business' have also grown prodigiously and the English leagues, especially the Premier League, have experienced an associated and pronounced increase in foreign player migration. The Premier League, supported by intensive commercial investment, has placed England on the career map of some top global stars. The globalization of football and its labor migrants can only be considered as part of a multifaceted and multidirectional process. This paper provides a model for understanding the globalization of football and the movement of its labor, but also probes beneath this model, drawing on findings from interview-based interpretative research conducted with foreign professional players in England (n = 22). A typology based on player experiences is established, explaining some of the key experiential dimensions of sports labor migration.