A brand new copy of African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, and Trajectories, by Paul Darby, James Esson, and Christian Ungruhe. Published 2022 by Manchester University Press. Hardcover.New copy, handled only for the purposes of taking photographs for this listing. See pictures for details on the content and condition of the book.Free shipping in the U.S.Africans have long graced football fields around the world. The success of icons such as Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless male youth across the continent. Using over a decade of ethnographic research, African football migration traces the historical, geographical and regulatory features of this migratory process. While a fortunate few do forge a successful career overseas, the book reveals how the vast majority experience involuntary immobility. Meanwhile others who are able to ‘go outside’ encounter truncated careers at the margins of the industry followed by precarious post-playing career lives. In unpacking these issues, African football migration offers fresh perspectives on the transnational strategies deployed by youth and young men striving to improve their life chances in post-colonial Africa, and the role that mobility, imagined and enacted, plays in these struggles.Author BiographyPaul Darby is a Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University James Esson is a Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University Christian Ungruhe is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Erasmus University RotterdamDetailsISBN1526120267ISBN-139781526120267TitleAfrican Football MigrationAuthorPaul Darby, James Esson, Dr Christian UngruheFormatHardcoverYear2022Pages288PublisherManchester University Press