What is it about?
Within sport there are many opportunities outside of an athletes home country. However, to explore these opportunities requires athletes to migrate and therefore adapt to different cultures, both within the sport and the broader community. This research uses interviews to explore these adaptations and subseqneutly compares the sport specific findings to previous literature.
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Why is it important?
The findings from this research add to whats currently known about athlete migration and is therefore able to offer advice to future researchers, applied practitioners and athletes.
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This page is a summary of: “It’s not just about football all the time either”: transnational athletes’ stories about the choice to migrate, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, July 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1612197x.2019.1637364.
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