1st Edition
Sport Migrants, Precarity and Identity Brazilian Footballers in Central and Eastern Europe
1. What Comes After Hope?
Part I: Transnationalism, Nationalism, and ‘Race’
2. Sports Migrants in ‘Central’ and ‘Eastern’ Europe: Beyond the Existing Narratives
3. Sports Migration, ‘Brazilianness’, and ‘Race’: The ‘Beautiful Game’ and its Dilemmas
Part II: Religion, Gender, and Agency
4. Athletic Migrant Religiosities and the Making of ‘Respectable Men’
5. Masculinities, Sports Migration, and Neoliberalism: The Pains of Migration
Part III: Final Thoughts
6. On Athletes’ Narratives and Contemporary Sports
Biography
José Hildo de Oliveira Filho received his PhD from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague (CUNI). He is a member of ISA (International Sociological Association), ABA (Brazilian Anthropological Association), and the AAA (American Anthropological Association).
“This book is well-written, and it undoubtedly contributes with new, original insights to an under-researched area of the football and futsal industries ... this book should be of high interest for sociologists of migration, sport, and work and the workplace. Moreover, it could well find itself on the reading list of readers possessing an interest in athletes’ lives and untold stories of hope and its accompanied dilemmas.” – Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Liverpool John Moores University, idrottsforum.org
“In contrast to other ethnographies that examine the transnational migration of Brazilian footballers and futsal players, Oliveira Filho innovates by emphasising migration trajectories outside the axes of global football clubs ... The reflections presented allow for a better understanding of how athletes deal with precarity, pain and hierarchies, while at the same time negotiating practices of care and resisting expectations of sacrifice for sport. The author proposes new directions for the study of sports migration, suggesting a greater dialogue with the humanities. Written in the first person, the text also teaches us that listening carefully and revisiting previous research has the potential to generate new insights and open up new debates.” - Caroline Soares de Almeida, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Anthropological Notebooks
