Football and migration : perspectives, places, players / edited by Richard Elliott and John Harris.

Part 1. Perspectives. Mobility, migration and history: football and early transnational networks / Pierre Lanfranchi & Matthew Taylor -- Chasing the ball: the motivations, experiences and effects of migrant professional footballers / Richard Elliott -- Football and migration: a contemporary geographical analysis / Rafaelle Poli & Roger Besson -- Part 2. Places. Migration and soccer in a football world: The United States of America and the global game (John Harris) 5. Circulation, bubbles, returns: The mobility of Brazilians in the football system (Carmen Rial) 6. The migration of Irish professional footballers: The good, the bad and the ugly (Seamus Kelly) 7. Football and migration: An analysis of South Korean football (Jung-Woo Lee) 8. League of retirees: Foreigners in Hungarian professional football (Gyozo Molnar) Part 3. Players. Current patterns and tendencies in women's football migration: outsourcing or national protectionism as the way forward? / Sine Agregaard -- Youth migration in English professional football: living, labouring and learning in Premier League academies / Gavin Weedon -- "No one would burden the sea and then never get any benefit": family involvement in players' migration to football academies in Ghana / Nienke van der Meij & Paul Darby -- Finding football in the Dominican Republic: Haitian migrants, space, place and notions of exclusion / Nicholas Wise and John Harris -- Playing the long-ball game: future directions in the study of football and migration / Richard Elliott & John Harris.