This commentary offers an analysis of the implications of Covid-19 on the future of elite
women's football, with the intention of reflecting on and illuminating the threat and …

With rising globalization and professionalization within sports, athletes are increasingly
migrating across national borders to take up work, and their athletic and nonathletic …

Research on sport migration spans many disciplines and strands of inquiry, with some
studies seeking to analyse the academic outputs. However, these studies sometimes are …

Transnational migrants are often considered to be the core of the new global precariat. On
the one hand, migrants are particularly likely to become precariats, due to the outsourcing of …

Estimated participation figures of almost 30 million worldwide make soccer the most
prominent team sport amongst girls and women. However, making a living as a female …

In 2011, the Football Association (FA), the national governing body of football in England,
launched the first semi-professional league for women. The inception of the FA Women's …

This article provides an analysis of how Nigerian women migrants are represented and
constructed as racial others by officials in the Scandinavian football clubs that recruit and …

Early initiatives for an Africanist contribution to queer studies launched in the 2000s sought
to create more synergies between the then emerging networks of activists and …

Doing research with African migrant football players, past and present, and with African
youth who aspire to play the professional game abroad and who pursue this goal with a …

The experiences of athletes who relocate from their home country have recently been in the
centre of attention in sport psychology. The present study examined how migrant athletes …