Based on interviews with leading sports journalists and grounded in the authors' experience
and expertise in both the sports journalism industry and sports media research, Sports …

As a pinnacle event in the global sporting calendar, the Summer Olympics have long been a
site of flexible citizenship, whereby athletes sell their talents to the highest bidder. This trend …

The future of diaspora goes together with the future of diversity, and the different ways in
which states and nations can reconfigure how their mobile, multifaceted members are …

In this study I conceptualize “sporting citizenships of convenience” as a theoretical
framework for understanding the instrumental decisions that elite footballers make when …

This chapter explores China's public and institutional attitudes towards the naturalization of
athletes over time, the laws and eligibility criteria framing different sports associations' …

The focus of this thesis is the recent naturalization of foreign players in China, that led to the
debut of the first football player without Chinese ancestry in the Chinese national team. The …