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

Associate professor,
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences,
University of Copenhagen, DK
Email: sagergaard@ifi.ku.dk
Study Groups: WF & FM

Research interests:

My research interest in football migration is based on studies of immigrant youngsters in the Danish football system. I have followed young talented football players from segregated residential areas and written about their dreams of social mobility through establishing themselves in a football career. I have also looked at Danish football clubs’ integration and coaching strategies for immigrant footballers. As part of these studies I have considered both the players’ motives and experiences and the clubs’ management of these youngsters, which overlaps with my work on global migration in the sports of handball and football.

Current reasearch:

Currently, I’m inspired by the fact that very little is known about the international flux of female athletes and the driving forces in these beginning migratory processes where the money is very modest.

Newly, I have started coordinating a research project on “Scandinavian women's football goes global. A cross-national study of sports labour migration as challenge and opportunity for Nordic civil society”. The project is based on a grant of 600,000 Euro from the NOS-HS Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and is designated a NORDCORP project (NORDic COllaborative Research Project), and includes researchers from all Nordic countries. The project period is from 1st September 2011 to 30th August 2015. See more.

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,)  Sport and Migration. Borders, boundaries and crossings, London: Routledge, pp. 157-172.

Agergaard, S. & Sørensen, J. K. (forthcoming): Policy, Sport and Integration. The case of talented ethnic minority players in Danish football clubs. International Journal of Sport Policy.

Agergaard, S. & Sørensen, J. K. (November 2009): The Dream of Social Mobility. Ethnic minority players in Danish football clubs. Soccer and Society 10(6): .

Agergaard, Sine (2008): Elite Athletes as Migrants in Danish Women’s Handball. International Review of the Sociology of Sport 43(1): 5-19.

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