Congratulations to authors Paul Darby, James Esson and Christian Ungruhe, whose book African football migration: Aspirations, experiences and trajectories has been shortlisted for the British Society of Sports History’s Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2023
Judges comments: “This discussion of a key element of the global labour market in contemporary sport manages to straddle complex disciplinary boundaries – sociology, geography, and anthropology – to present a well historicised, sharply insightful analysis of football migration, mainly from West Africa, in the last two decades. The case highlights the potential for transdisciplinary insight and asserts the importance of trans-national study, outlooks and awareness, asserting the place of historical practice in the wider sports field. The book does this in a way that is carefully structured, builds its argument clearly and effectively, and that holds the reader’s interest well.”
Part of the Globalizing Sport Studies book series.