TY - JOUR
T1 - 'The ball and the rhythm in her blood'. Racialised imaginaries and football migration from Nigeria to Scandinavia
AU - Engh, Mari Haugaa
AU - Settler, Federico
AU - Agergaard, Sine
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article provides an analysis of how Nigerian women migrants are represented and constructed as racial others by officials in the Scandinavian football clubs that recruit and employ them. Situated against scholarship on race, gender, and sport, within and outside the Scandinavian region, we highlight consistencies in stereotypical representations of black athletes. We use theories of racialisation to draw attention to how ideas about race and gender are mutually imbricated in shaping Scandinavian representations of Nigerian women football migrants. Based on interviews with Scandinavian football club officials, and Nigerian women football migrants, we expose and critique the ways in which Nigerian women’s migration as professionals, and their competencies as athletes, are constantly undermined by racially inscribed representations.
AB - This article provides an analysis of how Nigerian women migrants are represented and constructed as racial others by officials in the Scandinavian football clubs that recruit and employ them. Situated against scholarship on race, gender, and sport, within and outside the Scandinavian region, we highlight consistencies in stereotypical representations of black athletes. We use theories of racialisation to draw attention to how ideas about race and gender are mutually imbricated in shaping Scandinavian representations of Nigerian women football migrants. Based on interviews with Scandinavian football club officials, and Nigerian women football migrants, we expose and critique the ways in which Nigerian women’s migration as professionals, and their competencies as athletes, are constantly undermined by racially inscribed representations.
U2 - 10.1177/1468796816636084
DO - 10.1177/1468796816636084
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1468-7968
VL - 17
SP - 66
EP - 84
JO - Ethnicities
JF - Ethnicities
IS - 1
ER -