Football Fandom and Migration

Nina Szogs is a researcher at University of Vienna, Austria and Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany and is part of the interdisciplinary European project FREE: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (FP7). Her research focuses on intersectionality, gender and migration. She is co-editor of New Ethnographies of Football in Europe (Palgrave, 2016).

• 1. Introduction: Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray Fans in Vienna.- 2. Approaching the Field.- 3. Entering the Field.- 4. The Plurality of us and them: performing Loyalties and Rivalries.- 5. The Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender and Social Class in Fan Narratives and Performances.- 6. Conclusion and Outlook: the Intersection of Football Fandom and Migration.

“The book is an important contribution to our ethnographic knowledge of the social dimensions of non-local football fandom and the role of fan practices in diaspora communities. … This book is engaging reading for any student or scholar with an interest in football fandom, migration and transnationalism.” (idrottsforum.org, February, 2019)