Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration

Sine Agergaard is a social anthropologist and an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research on migration issues within sports has been published in a number of articles and books. She is currently the head of a Nordic collaborative research project studying the case of women’s soccer migration. Nina Clara Tiesler is a sociologist and a religious studies and migration scholar. She is a senior lecturer at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, and is an associated research fellow at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She coordinated the international study Diasbola and held the Joao Havelange Grant in 2012–13.

'This thoughtful selection of theoretical and original research articles is international and interdisciplinary in scope. One is tempted to dismiss the topic as insignificant; however, the book touches on important contemporary social issues: gender, sport and society, globalization of sports, professionalization, women’s international labor migration, and skilled transnational labor migration.... The book's unique contribution lies in advancing a transnational perspective of labor migration. The editors have done a great job of bracketing the empirical studies with theoretical discussions. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - G. K. Hearn, Idaho State University, CHOICE April 2015 "Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration is the first book of its kind, and its publication could not be more timely. This work discusses multicultural research guided by a rich variety of perspectives on sport-labor migration. The book’s greatest contribution is its gendered analysis of the various aspects of sport-labor migration from around the world. Women and men’s scholarly contributions to this work from a variety of disciplines (sport studies, anthropology, and sociology) also help provide rich content and thoughtful experiential and theoretical frames."— B. Nalani Butler, University of Tampa, USA, International Journal of Sport Communication

• Part I - Globalization, Migration and Women’s Soccer: state of the art, history and current patterns Chapter 1. Introduction. Globalization, Sports Labor Migration and Women’s Mobilities Chapter 2. ‘Soccer Matters Very Much, Every Day’: Player Migration and Motivation in Professional Women’s Soccer Chapter 3. Current fluxes in women’s soccer migration. Towards understanding the circularity of athletic mobility and skills-exchange Part II - Women’s soccer across the globe: case studies of migratory flows and experiences Chapter 4. The Continental Drift to a Zone of Prestige. Women’s Soccer Migration to the U.S. NCAA Division One 2000 – 2010 Chapter 5. Student Athletic Migration from Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of Women’s Soccer Chapter 6. New Frontiers: The Transnational Circulation of Brazil’s Women Soccer Players Chapter 7. International Migration of Japanese Women in World Soccer Chapter 8. Leaving the Core? The Emigration of Scandinavian Women Soccer Players Chapter 9. Momentous spark or enduring enthusiasm? The 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup and its impact on players’ mobility and on the popularity of women’s soccer in Germany Part III - Developing transnational perspectives on sports migration: A conceptual framework Chapter 10. On Mobility and Visibility in Women’s Soccer: theorizing an alternative approach to sport migration Chapter 11. Bringing Gender into Sports Labor Migration Research: Gendered Geographies of Power in African women’s soccer migration Chapter 12. The typology of athletic migrants revisited. Transnational settlers, sojourners and mobiles