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Seminar of the Migration Studies Research Group Carlos Nolasco, CES June 9th, 2010, 16:00, CES Seminar Room, Coimbra Since its origin, football has been marked by the cosmopolitanism resulting from players’ international mobility, a circumstance that allowed the game’s dissemination at a global level. More recently, due to the game's metamorphoses through mechanisms of capital investment, circulation and exploration, it has become essential to acquire players capable of optimizing sporting and financial results, and, when these players do not exist within national territory, they are intensely sought for abroad. Thus, as in other fields of economic activity, where there is a high international mobility of workers, football is, as well, sustained by a heavy international migration of players, being common to watch football games between teams which are, mostly, composed of foreign players. Equally, in Portugal, the migration of football players, although this is not a recent phenomenon, has been gaining a huge visibility given the number of foreign players representing Portuguese teams and, also, the number of Portuguese players representing foreign teams. This seminar intents to characterize the migration process of football players in Portugal, not only those who arrive but also the ones who leave, considering them as highly qualified migrants. Carlos Nolasco is a doctoral student in the field of Sociology at the School of Economics of University Coimbra (FEUC), with Centre for Social Studies (CES) as host institution. He holds a Graduate and a Master’s Degree by FEUC. He was a research assistant at CES, a higher education teacher and Chair of the Governing Board of School of Education Jean Piaget, at Viseu. He has a working relationship with Piaget Institute, but is currently on unpaid leave of absence, with a grant by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. |