Table of Contents

1: Introduction; 1: Sports Migration; 2: The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited; 3: The Bogotá Affair; 4: Cricket and the Imperial Connection; 5: The Migration of Footballers; 6: Blue Bonnets over the Border; Two: Comparative Trends; 7: Dimensions of International Talent Migration in Latin American Sports; 8: Skating on Thin Ice? The International Migration of Canadian Ice Hockey Players; 9: Professional Sports Migration to Finland during the 1980s; 10: Do Markets Make Footballers Free?; 11: The Flood from the East? Perestroika and the Migration of Sports Talent from Eastern Europe; 3: Sports Migration; 12: Foreign Footballers, Cultural Dreams and Community Identity in some North-western Mediterranean Cities; 13: Trans-nationalism, Labour Migration and Latin American Baseball; 14: Out of Africa:; 15: American Labour Migrants, Globalization and the Making of English Basketball; 16: Travelling, Comparing, Emigrating

About the Author

John Bale, Joseph Maguire