ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of sports labor migration has mainly been studied with a focus on macro-structural dimensions such as global fluxes of migration, centres and peripheries therein, and possible impacts on host and donor countries, and the role of international and national policy. The theoretical framework of typologies from migration research while concurrently contemplating the data, since one of our goals is to explore how various types of migrants connected to the actual lived experiences of the players, as well as to examine where such connections existed and, in turn, identify new dimensions not included in the original typologies of sports migrants. Building on the transnational turn in migration studies we have found that the aspects of affiliation to territorial space and the length of the time period are relevant in order to point to the variety between athletic migrants as transnational settlers, sojourners and mobiles.
