ABSTRACT
For those directly involved in English basketball, the players, officials and spectators, a grasp of the interconnections between the movement of players from one country to another, the cultural meaning and significance of the game and its place within the development of global sport is probably lost in an understandable concern with what appears to be the ‘here and now’. Though this ‘involved’ perspective is vital in probing how those caught up in sports labour migration experience this process, a more ‘detached’ perspective is also needed in order to place the experience of any one individual on a broader canvas.
