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Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko

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Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized and policed by White male guardians of the women's game as well as her fellow White women team‐mates—to find spaces of self‐care, solidarity, and career satisfaction. This article provides new knowledge about the sporting workplace relevant to feminist and antiracist scholars in and beyond the U.K. who want to understand how Black women understand, navigate, and transcend discriminatory workplace environments.

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  • Aarti Ratna, 2026. "Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(5), pages 1914-1926, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:33:y:2026:i:5:p:1914-1926
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.70157
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