Özet:

The purposes of this study were to discuss the "modern sports" phenomenon with a postcolonial critical approach, display the place of the sports in the postcolonial structure through sports labour immigration and explain the situation in Turkey. According to this point of view, sport has built upon the old colonial structure and economic gap between the colony and colonialist states has deepened with this order. In the sport area, the world’s powerful economies inevitably became a center of attraction and it reinforced the immigration of talents in developing countries with low costs. Although it would be acceptable for these individual immigration of these talented players to the rich countries or their big clubs which affirmed as the holders of the global sports economy means systematic "deskilling" for their home countries. On the other hand, parallel to this postcolonial order, countries which have no formal colonial ties like Turkey have some immigrant-shaped sports branches. Also, these countries sports systems serve the postcolonial order through allowing elder players with astronomic contracts.

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