ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the gendered mobilities of men and women crossing the international borders of developed countries. It looks at the construction of three ideal types of mobility: Migration, short-term research stays, as well as transnational modes of mobility. With the example of one case study reflecting a transnational mobility pattern, the chapter focuses on gendered forms of mobility and demonstrates that even such socio-economically privileged migrants share characteristics with migrants from developing countries. Mobility aspirations for the future were closely linked to the scientists' social networks. Although mobile scientists from Western European countries are in general less restricted by visa regulations, economic hardship or discriminatory practices, the interviewees had to deal with various tensions resulting from their wish to lead self-determined lives on the one hand and the restrictions of a mobile lifestyle on the other. The chapter looks at the issue of scientists' gendered mobility abroad and feminist migration research and research on mobile scientists.
