ABSTRACT
The vast majority of attention outside physical cultural studies (PCS), scholarly and other, is paid to how bodies move during sporting contests. Theoretically informed research about international sport migration has evolved: from the initial, groundbreaking 'global sporting arena' to global sport to transnational sport, the ways of conceptualizing the movements of sports professionals around the world. Using the notion of sportscape to understand the shifting conceptual models of space and place, it becomes clear that space and place are not what they are presumed to be. Sport-related migration, like all migration, is shaped by a wide array of social, economic, political, and historical factors. Situated within geography and sociology, much of the work on mobility focuses on technologies of mobility, whether that is transport systems, infrastructure or other mobile technologies like mobile phones. If mobility is understood as a form of capital, then it becomes rooted in the power relations found within global capitalism.
