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Navigating between mobility and immobility: precarious sporting trajectories of young Guinea-Bissauan footballers in Portugal.
Journal Title
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics
Year (definitive publication)
2024
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
This paper addresses the issue of migratory mobilities in football, dwelling
specifically on Guinea-Bissauan footballers’ migration to Portugal. In this respect, it tackles two
concerns: Firstly, despite its increasingly significant prominence in international football, the
sporting migration processes of footballers from Guinea-Bissau have remained strangely absent
from analyses of West African sports migration. Secondly, to combine the logic of mobility in
the transnational field of sport with the subjectivities and aspirations of sporting immigrants, and
how these young people navigate the fine line between mobility and immobility. In most cases,
football winds up being a vehicle for uncertain and risky trajectories. Subsequently, we highlight
three categories of immobility that affect these players and the respective strategies to counteract
them: stalled sporting careers, remigration, and subalternization.
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Keywords
sporting migrations,globalization of sports,football,mobilities,aspirations
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Sociology - Social Sciences
Funding Records
Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
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622658-EPP-1-2020-1-TR-SPO-SCP | Comissão Europeia - Erasmus+ Collaborative Partnership in the field of Sport - Belgium |