Migração internacional do trabalho e economia do esporte: uma revisão sistemática de literatura

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the international migration of work in sport from the theoretical basis of the economy of sport and using as a technical procedure of analysis the review of the systematic method of literature. International expatriation in sport is a segment of international labor migration with particularities in its flows, however, it is also part of the process of favorable globalization and being a consequence of inequalities in the field of the economy of sport. The systematic literature review is a method capable of identifying, selecting, evaluating and synthesizing the relevant documents available on a topic based on a research question. The primary studies used to prepare this systematic literature review were obtained from the journals Scopus and Web of Science. The research protocol used in this study refers to the one developed by Transfield et al., (2003), being widely reported in the area of management literature. The final corpus was extracted after using the inclusion and exclusion criteria, making a total of 50 articles, whose time period ranges from 2005 to 2022. The results obtained from the corpus analysis show a total of 59 authors and co-authors, distributed in 17 countries, with greater concentration in the United States and the United Kingdom. These authors have published their work in 19 journals, the three main ones being the Journal of Sports Economics, Leisure Studies and the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. Football is the sport that received the most attention in the articles, in which the main contexts of application of the sport economy in labor migration were identified: competitive balance and performance within the sports market and the motivational factors for sports expatriation.