Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Sowing Transnational Fields
1. Routes and Strategies of Transnational Migration
2. Striding Across Fields of Global Sport
3. Tensions of Sovereignty and Citizenship
4. NEOsport and the Production of Transnational Sport Migrants
5. Family Matters: Negotiating the Risks and Costs of Mobility
6. Illegal Motion: Undocumented Migration and the Production of
Illegality
Concluding Remarks: Experiencing the Politics of Transnational
Migration
Works Cited
Media Sources
Index
Thomas F. Carter is Principal Lecturer in Anthropology and Sport at the University of Brighton. He is the author of The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics and Language of Cuban Baseball (Duke University Press, 2008) and In Foreign Fields (Pluto, 2011).
'This is a remarkable book. Combining vivid prose with shrewd
analysis, he follows the lives and labour of both elite and
lesser-known players'
*Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Chaired Professor, University of
Toronto, and co-editor of The Discipline of Leisure*
'Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research in a wide
variety of locations, this book make an enormous contribution to
the anthropological study of sport'
*Alan Bairner, Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough
University, author of Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization
(2001)*
'Timely, innovative and provocative'
*Noel Dyck, Professor of Social Anthropology at Simon Fraser
University and co-editor of Claiming Individuality: The Politics of
Cultural Distinction (Pluto, 2006)*
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