The European Treatment of Young Migrant Football Players: A New Issue of Power at the European Level

Special Report
New European Power Game
By William Gasparini, Mickaël Heidmann
English

At the European level, we notice that the young migrant football players have often to face practices which are not complying with the European legislation in terms of immigration, as long as ethic principles for the Council of Europe. In the context of a new connection between the European Union and the Council of Europe since the entry into force of the Lisbon’s Treaty on December 1st 2009, our survey will aim at comprehending what is at stake in a new European migration’s policy toward the young professional sportsmen. An analysis carried out from the migration’s issue will allow us to understand the main questions of these crossroad and trans-national spaces where institutions, social groups and agents, among whom strategies and resources result, for the main part, from other structured social fields and which are contingent on the interests of groups and specific national stories, are in confrontation.

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