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Soccer & Society

Volume 8, Issue 4, 2007

Special Issue: Globalized Football

Adaptive Transnational Identity and the Selling of Soccer: The New England Revolution and Lusophone Migrant Populations

Adaptive Transnational Identity and the Selling of Soccer: The New England Revolution and Lusophone Migrant Populations

DOI:
10.1080/14660970701440741
Miguel Moniz*

pages 459-477

Available online: 14 Aug 2007

Abstract

The essay provides an overview of adaptive transnational identity processes related to soccer among Lusophone migrant communities in New England. Particular attention is paid to how the New England Revolution soccer team (in the US first division) markets the club to Lusophone migrants and as a result participates in the transnational social field, important for migrant economic and social integration in local contexts. The essay provides insight into adaptive transnational migration processes by examining an institution that may not discursively linked to the migrant group, but that nonetheless participates in the construction and maintenance of the adaptive transnational social category.

 

Details

  • Available online: 14 Aug 2007

Author notes

  • Miguel Moniz -

    Miguel Moniz, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (ISCTE), Lisbon.

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