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Two-Faced Hopes: Football, Migration, and Religion Between West Africa and Europe

Descrizione del progetto

Calcio, migrazione e religione tra gli africani occidentali

Molti giovani dell’Africa occidentale aspirano a intraprendere una carriera calcistica in Europa ma spesso cadono vittime di agenti ingannevoli. I ricercatori hanno trascurato il ruolo della religione, in particolare del cristianesimo pentecostale e dell’Islam, in questo contesto. Il progetto JANUSHOPE, finanziato dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, studia il concetto di speranza tra i migranti africani in Europa esplorando l’intersezione tra calcio, migrazione e religione. Si concentrerà sui migranti africani che praticano il calcio in Europa e che sono considerati irregolari. L’obiettivo è quello di analizzare criticamente gli aspetti più oscuri della speranza all’interno dell’industria calcistica mondiale, alla ricerca del successo. Il progetto esamina anche come le narrazioni di speranza basate sulla fede possano criticare e perpetuare il capitalismo globale e le disuguaglianze migratorie transnazionali. La ricerca prevede interviste semi-strutturate e un lavoro etnografico sul campo.

Obiettivo

Since the 1990s and the commercialization of global football, an increasing number of young people in countries like Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Cameroon have aspired to play football as a career, a strategy to migrate abroad (ideally Europe), and an opportunity for social and class mobility. For the majority, however, the dream does not come true. International media and human rights organizations regularly report about thousands of young West Africans victimized by deceitful agents, stranded as undocumented migrants, and playing for clubs under exploitative conditions. And yet, young people continue to train to migrate and play. Scholars have studied these football-related migrations, but they have overlooked the fact that religions, especially Pentecostal Christianity and Islam, play a central role in migrants’ hopeful journeys. This project investigates the intersection of football, migration, and religion among African migrants in Europe in order to study hope, conceptualized as a belief that something desired may occur in the future. It makes a crucial critical intervention: while many interdisciplinary studies assume a depoliticized notion of hope and romanticize its positive and constructive qualities, JANUSHOPE also examines the dark side of hope that perpetuates inequality and exploitation. It turns to African “irregular” football migrants in Europe to understand how a critique of the global industry’s dark side of hope might co-exist with hopes for “making it” in the industry. It investigates how their faith-based narratives of hope might both critique and reproduce inequalities of global capitalism and transnational migration. The key research methods are semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with “irregular” African football migrants in Europe. The results will be disseminated through refereed articles and communicated to a wide global audience interested in football and to key European policy makers in fields of migration and human rights.

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RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 203 464,32
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