1st Edition
Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration
Part I - Globalization, Migration and Women’s Soccer: state of the art, history and current patterns Chapter 1. Introduction. Globalization, Sports Labor Migration and Women’s Mobilities - Agergaard & Tielser Chapter 2. ‘Soccer Matters Very Much, Every Day’: Player Migration and Motivation in Professional Women’s Soccer - Williams Chapter 3. Current fluxes in women’s soccer migration. Towards understanding the circularity of athletic mobility and skills-exchange - Agergaard & Tielser Part II - Women’s soccer across the globe: case studies of migratory flows and experiences Chapter 4. The Continental Drift to a Zone of Prestige. Women’s Soccer Migration to the U.S. NCAA Division One 2000 – 2010 - Booth & Liston Chapter 5. Student Athletic Migration from Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of Women’s Soccer - McCree Chapter 6. New Frontiers: The Transnational Circulation of Brazil’s Women Soccer Players - Rial Chapter 7. International Migration of Japanese Women in World Soccer - Yoshio Chapter 8. Leaving the Core? The Emigration of Scandinavian Women Soccer Players - Botelho & Skogvang Chapter 9. Momentous spark or enduring enthusiasm? The 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup and its impact on players’ mobility and on the popularity of women’s soccer in Germany - Pfister, Klein og Tiesler Part III - Developing transnational perspectives on sports migration: A conceptual framework Chapter 10. On Mobility and Visibility in Women’s Soccer: theorizing an alternative approach to sport migration - Carter Chapter 11. Bringing Gender into Sports Labor Migration Research: Gendered Geographies of Power in African women’s soccer migration - Haugaa Engh Chapter 12. The typology of athletic migrants revisited. Transnational settlers, sojourners and mobiles - Agergaard, Botelho & Tiesler
Biography
Sine Agergaard is a social anthropologist and an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research on migration issues within sports has been published in a number of articles and books. She is currently the head of a Nordic collaborative research project studying the case of women’s soccer migration.
Nina Clara Tiesler is a sociologist, religious studies and migration scholar. She is a senior lecturer at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany and is an associated research fellow at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has coordinated the international study Diasbola and held the Joao Havelange Grant in 2012-13.
