{"product_id":"9781526120267","title":"African football migration","description":"Author: Paul Darby\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526120267\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Jan 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 312 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfricans 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn unpacking these issues,\u003ci\u003e African football migration\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920474816670,"sku":"ING-9781526120267","price":206.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526120267.jpg?v=1782821388","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526120267","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}