Agergaard, Sine

Alber, Erdmute

Booth, Sara

Botelho, Vera

Claussen, Detlev

Darby, Paul

Engh, Mari

Liston, Katie

McCree, Roy

Mueller, Julianne

Nieland, Joerg-Uwe

Poli, Raffaele

Pfister, Gertrud

Rial, Carmen

Saavedra, Martha

Schaaf, Daniela

Schokkaert, Jeron

Spitaler, Georg

Tiesler, Nina Clara

Ungruhe, Christian

v. d. Meij, Nienke

Weedon, Gavin

Williams, Jean

Members

 

Research fellow, PhD
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, DK
Email: vera@stat.sdu.dk
Tel.: 65926911
Study Groups: WF

Research area & expertise:

Migration issues have guided a great part of my academic work. It includes analyses of changes in family organization and survival strategies within migrants from the Brazilian urbanized South to the frontier areas of the Amazon Region. I have also researched the cross-cultural transition and adaptation of Brazilian immigrants in Canada, exploring how migrants perceive and construct transnational social spaces. In Denmark I have examined several aspects of the local migrant groups such as the fertility behaviour, mental health and the effects of migration on the propensities of mixed marriages.

Current reasearch interests & projects:

Currently, my main interest is the international migration of female footballers including its historical development and qualitative analyses of motives, adaptation and outcomes of the players´ migration experience. At the present moment, I´m working on a paper titled: “The WWCup-2011 and the Globalization of Women´s Football” and finalizing a biographical study on the football career of a Brazilian player in Europe with a focus on how the mediation of “agents”, relationships with coaches and perception of the local culture, define the course of player´s career.

Selected publications:

Botelho, V. and Agergaard, S. (2011) `Moving for the Love of the Game? International Migration of Female Footballers into Scandinavian Countries”. Soccer & Society 12(6): 806-819.
Agergaard, S and Botelho, V (2010) ´Female Football Migration. Motivational factors for early migratory processes´ in J Maguire and M. Falcous (eds,) ´Handbook of Sports Migration´ London: Routledge.
Botelho, V. (2011) (forthcoming) “Junior Pipoca - Adventures of a Brazilian Footballer in Scandinavian”. Cia do Livro – Editora e Distribuidora Ltda. Brazil.
Botelho, V. (2004) ´Patterns and Trends of Mixed Marriage in Denmark. Working Paper no. 25. Danish Center for Demographic Research. University of Southern Denmark. Denmark.
Botelho, V. (2001) ´International Migration and Transnationalism: An Empirical Account. Working Paper. No. 12. Danish Center for Demographic Research. Odense University. ´Denmark.
Botelho, V. (2010) “Leaving the core. Emigration of Scandinavian female footballers”.  Paper presented at Seminar Sports as a Global Labour Market; Female Football Migration. Dep.of Exercise and Sports Science. University of Copenhagen. 3th December, http://www.diasbola.com/uk/foomi-source.html

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