Tag: Communication & Sport

The scope of the issue will include immigrants, emigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced people, and will focus on movement across international borders rather than domestic migration. Migration remains a cultural and competitive grey area when athletes— particularly those in underdeveloped nations—emigrate from their home country to compete for another, often with no cultural, historical, or linguistic link to their new nation. These athletes typically immigrate to developed countries at the expense of struggling sports systems in their home nations.

In this special issue of Communication & Sport, we welcome theoretical and empirical contributions that broadly address the overarching theme of “Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic and Paralympic Games” or specially focus on one or more of the events from the 2018, 2020 and/or 2022 Games.