ABSTRACT
In the spring of 2008, Alejandro Rojas 1 will travel from the Dominican Republic to the training facilities of the Chicago White Sox in Tucson Arizona. 2 He will, in all likelihood, travel on a passenger jet in relative comfort, pass through US Immigration with relative ease on his Dominican passport and US work visa, and continue his career as a professional baseball player. Rojas is not Dominican, however; he is Cuban. His ethnicity is not that remarkable. That Rojas will travel across the North American continent for his employment is not especially remarkable either. What is rather remarkable and is often absent from public discourse is the negotiated terms of his travel, terms set by a transnational corporation, Major League Baseball, in conjunction with a national government, the US Government, that regulates, legalizes, and constrains transnational sport labour migration. Even more remarkable and hidden is the means by which Rojas travelled to the Dominican Republic from Cuba. His and others’ travels are what is of particular concern in this article.
