Moving players,traversing perspectives: Global value chains,production networks and Ghanaian football labour migration |
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| Institution: | 1. Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California;3. Division of Health Services Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California;4. Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education, Los Angeles, California;6. Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California;1. School of Rehabilitation and Health Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, LS13HE, UK;2. School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK;1. School of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD), Bellfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;2. Global Resource Information Division (GRID-Geneva), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Bd Carl-Vogt 66, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland;3. Institute for Environmental Sciences, EnviroSPACE Lab., University of Geneva, Bd Carl-Vogt 66, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland;4. Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), International Environment House, 11 chemin des Anémones, CH-1219, Châtelaine, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the production and transnational export of Ghanaian football labour. It does so via a cross-disciplinary approach that utilises perspectives rooted in the sociology of development (global value chains) and economic geography (global production networks). The article is underpinned by two central arguments. Firstly, it contends that the GVC framework is useful in accounting for how Ghanaian players are produced and prepared for the international market, identifying the key agents and agencies involved, mapping the geography of production and export and assessing the institutional context within which the trade operates locally, nationally and internationally. The second draws on the GPN perspective to argue that while Ghanaian football labour migration remains a process contoured by uneven asymmetries of power that favour actors, stakeholders and entities in the global North, there are currently segments of the production–export chain where power is much more diffuse and some benefits are captured in the global South. The paper draws on interview data and observations gleaned from four periods of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana between January 2008 and June 2011. |
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| Keywords: | Global value chains Global production networks Football Migration Football academies Ghana |
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