Emigrant Players

Paul Darby is a senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise in the University of Ulster (Jordanstown). He is author of Africa, Football and FIFA: Politics, Colonialism and Resistance (Frank Cass 2002) and joint editor (with Gavin Mellor and Martin Johnes) of Soccer and Disaster: International Perspectives (2005). His current research, funded by the ESRC, concentrates on football labour migration from Ghana to Europe and he is completing a book for University College Dublin Press on Gaelic games and the Irish Diaspora in the United States. He sits on the editorial boardofSoccer and Societyand Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sport. David Hassan is a senior lecturer in the politics of sport at the University of Ulster (Jordanstown). He is also Deputy Executive Academic Editor of Sport in Society. He conducts research on the interplay of sport and national identity in Ireland and the political economy of sport on a global scale. In addition, forthcoming collections on football governance (with Sean Hamil, University of London, UK) and sport labour migration (with Carlos Henrique de Vasconcellos Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) will be published in early 2009.