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Sport and migration: Borders, boundaries and crossings.

Over the past two decades, the rate of sport-related migration across the globe has intensified, as has academic interest in the causes and effects of these migratory patterns. As editors, Maguire and Falcous sought to summarise the ways in which academe has analysed these changing patterns and highlight possibilities for further research. The greatest strength of the book, I suggest, is that it offers perspectives from a wide range of disciplines; chapters range from statistically oriented economic analysis to the figurational work of Elias and neo-Marxist economic dependency theory. The range of approaches used within the book highlights that sport migration patterns are complex and multi-faceted. Although recent increases in sport migration are linked to neoliberal economic reforms, many migratory paths are still influenced by factors such as colonial era ties and personal networks of players, coaches and administrators.