{"id":243,"date":"2015-03-17T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/ecss2015malmo\/?p=243"},"modified":"2015-03-19T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:16:47","slug":"invited-session-and-satellite-symposium-on-sport-professionalization-and-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/ecss2015malmo\/invited-session-and-satellite-symposium-on-sport-professionalization-and-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Invited Session and Satellite Symposium on \u201cSport, Professionalization and Migration\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

With increasing globalization and professionalization of sports, athletes, coaches and other sports personnel move across regional and national borders to take up work with increasing frequency, and our scholarly approaches to sport can no longer presume\u00a0the boundaries of nation-states as the natural context for sport. Today, transnational mobility holds important consequences for national and international sport governing bodies, local clubs and individual athletes\u2019 careers and lives.<\/p>\n

\"football\"<\/p>\n

This invited session and satellite symposium\u00a0bring together senior and young researchers whose expertise includes sports and mobility, sports and professionalization, as well as sport, race and gender. In relation to existing research on sports labour migration (developing predominantly macro-structural perspectives on the global flows of athletes) this session and satellite symposium\u00a0will present new theoretical perspectives on athletes\u2019 mobility and bring the experiences of the players themselves forward through case studies of male and female athletes\u2019 mobility in sports.<\/p>\n

The invited session \u201dSports labour mobility and the politics of precarity\u201d will start at 10.20 on June\u00a026th (for more information see the programme for the ECSS Conference<\/a>). The concept of precarity is taken from among others the British economist, Guy Standing, who has examined the processes through which many a modern worker is becoming part of the \u2018precariat\u2019 combining the concepts precarious and proletariat (Standing 2011<\/a>). The defining characteristic of members of the precariat is the unstable and short-term nature of their employment underpinned by a low probability of building a career. The three presentations in the session will alert attention to the variety and specificity of precarious issues for male as well as female athletes in various parts of the world of sport.<\/p>\n

\"Niko

Niko Besnier<\/p><\/div>\n

The first speaker is Professor Niko Besnier from Amsterdam University, the Netherlands, who is heading the project\u00a0\u201cGlobalization, Sports and the Precarity of Masculinity\u201d, an Advanced Research Grant funded by the European Research Council. Professor Besnier will report on the most current findings from multi-sited comparative ethnographic research on the hopes of young men in the so-called Global South and the migratory actions that derive from them.<\/p>\n

\"Carmen

Carmen Rial<\/p><\/div>\n

The second speaker will be Professor Carmen Rial from University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted since 2003 about the careers and life styles of Brazilian football players living in more than 10 countries, this presentation compares the experiences of players who migrate to China, India, Korea, Morocco or Uruguay to celebrity players who work at global clubs in Europe. It addresses cultural, political and economic implications of this form of circulation.<\/p>\n

\"Sine

Sine Agergaard<\/p><\/div>\n

The third speaker is associate Professor, Sine Agergaard, Aarhus University, Denmark, who will report on precarious issues arising in a critical case study of African female athletes\u2019 migration into and away from Scandinavian football clubs. Attention will be given to the fact that even though Scandinavian clubs and audiences employ and consume an increasing number of transnational athletes, there is no policy framework set up to ensure support to their dual career development and post-career transition.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon of the 26th of June a satellite symposium\u00a0to the ECSS Conference will be held five minutes away at Malm\u00f6 University. The focus will be on the Scandinavian context, since this is the final seminar for a Nordic collaborative research project, a project that has consisted of a number of PhD projects\u00a0based at various Scandinavian universities (see www.ph.au.dk\/nordcorp<\/a>). The studies have been using women\u2019s football in Scandinavia \u2013 a leading centre of the game at a global level \u2013 as a case for analysing crucial changes in the Nordic civil society model of sport resulting from\u00a0globalization and professionalization processes.<\/p>\n

At the satellite symposium,\u00a0six presentations will be held, mostly by PhD-students. The themes will be:<\/p>\n