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9780714634890

The Global Sports Arena: Athletic Talent Migration in an Interpendent World

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  • ISBN13:

    9780714634890

  • ISBN10:

    0714634891

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-02-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This unique volume explores Europe's most dangerous communist terrorist organizations and reveals how they use violence as a means of political communication and persuasion. It outlines seven terrorist groups from Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy and Turkey and gives their modus operandi, rationale and political messages in translated communiques never before available in English.

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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Sports Labour Migration in the Global Arenap. 1
The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited: The Migration of Welsh Rugby Talent since 1918p. 25
The Bogota Affairp. 39
Cricket and the Imperial Connection: Overseas Players in Lancashire in the Inter-war Yearsp. 49
The Migration of Footballers: The Case of France, 1932-1982p. 63
Blue Bonnets over the Border: Scotland and the Migration of Footballersp. 78
Dimensions of International Talent Migration in Latin American Sportsp. 99
Skating on Thin Ice? The International Migration of Canadian Ice Hockey Playersp. 112
Professional Sports Migration to Finland during the 1980sp. 126
Do Markets Make Footballers Free?p. 141
The Flood from the East? Perestroika and the Migration of Sports Talent from Eastern Europep. 153
Foreign Footballers, Cultural Dreams and Community Identity in some North-western Mediterranean Citiesp. 171
Trans-nationalism, Labour Migration and Latin American Baseballp. 183
Out of Africa: The 'Development' of Kenyan Athletics, Talent Migration and the Global Sports Systemp. 206
American Labour Migrants, Globalization and the Making of English Basketballp. 226
Travelling, Comparing, Emigrating: Configurations of Sport Mobilityp. 256
Postcript: An Agenda for Research on Sports Labour Migrationp. 281
Indexp. 285
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