Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport migration is gaining momentum and that it is closely interwoven with the broader process of global sport development taking place in the late twentieth century.

John Bale, Joseph Maguire

1: Introduction; 1: Sports Migration; 2: The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited; 3: The Bogotá Affair; 4: Cricket and the Imperial Connection; 5: The Migration of Footballers; 6: Blue Bonnets over the Border; Two: Comparative Trends; 7: Dimensions of International Talent Migration in Latin American Sports; 8: Skating on Thin Ice? The International Migration of Canadian Ice Hockey Players; 9: Professional Sports Migration to Finland during the 1980s; 10: Do Markets Make Footballers Free?; 11: The Flood from the East? Perestroika and the Migration of Sports Talent from Eastern Europe; 3: Sports Migration; 12: Foreign Footballers, Cultural Dreams and Community Identity in some North-western Mediterranean Cities; 13: Trans-nationalism, Labour Migration and Latin American Baseball; 14: Out of Africa:; 15: American Labour Migrants, Globalization and the Making of English Basketball; 16: Travelling, Comparing, Emigrating