ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book introduces the key features of transnational studies of migration and compares these features with approaches to international migration that focus primarily on national and global frameworks of analysis. It provides insights into the contexts, mechanisms and patterns of trans-nationalized inequalities in Europe by characterizing Europe as an assemblage, that is, as a temporarily stabilized complex of elements that are in a continuous process of shifting. The chapter illustrates the contexts, mechanisms and patterns of inequality in the domain-specific assemblage of science by presenting examples of geographical mobility of scientists, conventionally addressed in migration studies as mobility of highly skilled individuals. The central inequality mechanism—a regime of intersection—within the specific assemblage of care is the gendered and intersectional narrative of ‘making it abroad’ to which the individuals who were interviewed for the empirical research referred.
