African Footballers in Sweden ─ Race, Immigration, and Integration in the Age of Globalization

This book employs men's football as a lens through which to investigate questions relating to immigration, racism, integration and national identity in present-day Sweden. Specifically, this study explores if professional football serves as a successful model of multiracialism/multiculturalism for the rest of Swedish society to emulate, and further asks whether the amateur game acts as an avenue of integration for members of the country's non-Nordic immigrant communities. This work additionally examines both overt and more hidden institutional forms of racism in Swedish football, paying special attention to the experiences of African (and other black) footballers at all levels of the sport. All of these subjects will, in turn, be considered in a broader, comparative, West European context.

Carl-Gustaf Scott received his PhD in Modern European/Scandinavian History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005, and since then he has instructed graduate and undergraduate students at a number of different liberal arts colleges and research universities. He is a Guest Researcher in the Department of Social Science at Ersta Skondal University in Stockholm. Dr. Scott's research examines contemporary Swedish history in a broader, comparative, European context, and his work has, among other places, appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Contemporary History, European History Quarterly, Cold War History, The Scandinavian Journal of History, Social History and Immigrants and Minorities. He is currently finishing a monograph entitled:'Domestic Foreign Policy: Swedish Social Democracy, Europe, and the Vietnam War.'