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Navigating between mobility and immobility: precarious sporting trajectories of young Guinea-Bissauan footballers in Portugal.
Título Evento
Royal Geographic Society - IBG Annual Conference 2024
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2024
Língua
Inglês
País
Reino Unido
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Abstract/Resumo
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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Palavras-chave
sporting migrations,globalization of sports,football,mobilities,aspirations