Rezension: Nauja Kleist & Dorte Thorsen (Hg.): Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration. New York, US-NY, & London: Routledge 2017, 200 Seiten
In: Peripherie: Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, Band 39, Heft 3-2019, S. 494-495
ISSN: 2366-4185
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In: Peripherie: Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, Band 39, Heft 3-2019, S. 494-495
ISSN: 2366-4185
In: Peripherie: Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 494-495
ISSN: 2366-4185
In: European journal for sport and society: EJSS ; the official publication of the European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS), Band 18, Heft 4, S. 347-364
ISSN: 2380-5919
In: Africa Spectrum, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 367-372
ISSN: 0002-0397
European, American, & African ethnologists presented results of their field research & discussed current theoretical concepts in the area of social parentage in Western Africa. The article briefly introduces the speakers & their research topics. The questions discussed during the workshop are not new. But need to be clarified in order to avoid remaining on a purely descriptive level or in a structural analysis, which often do not correspond to social practice. The workshop was a meeting of different research generations as well as adherents of various theoretical currents, an attempt to link classic positions with new concepts. References. E. Sanchez
In: Africa Spectrum, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 367-372
ISSN: 0002-0397
In: Journal of sport and social issues: the official journal of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Band 44, Heft 5, S. 397-420
ISSN: 1552-7638
While studies on transnational African football migration have increasingly attracted scholarly attention, little is known about the continent's regional particularities. However, in contrast to the massive influx of footballers from West and North Africa, squads of European professional clubs seldom include players from East Africa. Yet, the concentration on West Africa in academic studies runs the risk of overgeneralizing certain practices on the African continent and, hence, of reproducing Africa's standing as the homogeneous peripheral other. By analyzing the various historical, structural, and socio-cultural reasons for the general absence of migrant footballers from East Africa, we aim at contributing to a more nuanced picture of African football migration and further discuss the ambivalent consequences of players' spatial immobility for East Africa's football development.
In: Globalizing sport studies
In: International review for the sociology of sport: irss ; a quarterly edited on behalf of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA)
ISSN: 1461-7218
The growth of girls' and women's football in Africa, coupled with increased professionalisation in Europe and the United States, has led to rising international migration of African female players. This trend reflects the longer standing culture of independent, transnational migration among African women since the late 1980s and of enlarged possibilities and responsibilities triggered by neoliberal reform across the continent. This article explores how these sporting, cultural and economic transformations have coalesced to influence the aspirations and agency of female youth and young women in Ghana. To do so, we draw on original data from ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, Sweden and Denmark undertaken between 2015 and 2021. Our findings reveal that for ambitious, talented female footballers, transnational football migration is increasingly viewed as a speculative route to improve ones' life chances and negotiate intergenerational responsibilities to family. Significantly, the article also illustrates that in seeking to produce this highly prized form of migration, they must carefully navigate gendered social norms and hierarchies related to 'respectable' career and life trajectories. The conclusion proposes a critical research agenda to explore the interplay between sporting opportunities, migration aspirations and diverse socioeconomic conditions in Africa.