Transnational mobility among early-career academics. Gendered aspects of negotiations and arrangements within heterosexual couples.

Autor/inn/en	Schaer, Martine; Dahinden, Janine; Toader, Alina
Titel	Transnational mobility among early-career academics. Gendered aspects of negotiations and arrangements within heterosexual couples. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Transnationale Mobilität von Akademikern am Berufsanfang. Geschlechtsspezifische Aspekte der Aushandlungen und Arrangements bei heterosexuellen Paaren.
Quelle	In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 43 (2017) 8, S. 1292-1307 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1369-183X; 1469-9451
DOI	10.1080/1369183X.2017.1300254
Schlagwörter	Entscheidung; Familie; Frau; Geschlechterbeziehung; Ungleichheit; Auslandstätigkeit; Beruf; Dual Career Couple; Akademiker; Auslandsaufenthalt; Geschlechtsspezifik; Verhandeln; Hochschulabsolvent; Berufsanfänger; Ehepaar; Mann; Wissenschaftler; Großbritannien; Schweiz; USA
Abstract	"Today, transnational mobility is often presented as indispensable for a successful academic career. This institutionalisation of transnational mobility for young academics has important effects in (re)producing or transforming gender inequalities. Building on the results of a qualitative study conducted at three universities - Zurich (Switzerland), UCLA (U.S.A), and Cambridge (UK) - this paper examines the mobility experiences of early-career academics and their partners and seeks to understand the gendered mechanisms underlying mobility patterns. Drawing on three case studies, this paper focuses on the negotiations and arrangements of mobile couples. Each case study represents a different ideal-typical pattern of how gender is entangled with mobility. We show how gender is 'done' and 'undone' by the academics and their partners throughout these mobility trajectories, and how these couples' negotiations and practices are closely entangled with gender representations that are structurally anchored in labour markets and discursively expressed within the wider social environment. As such, this paper questions the dichotomy between economic men and social and cultural women sometimes reproduced in studies on highly skilled migration. Furthermore, the findings challenge earlier studies that suggest a causal link between mobility and the leaky pipeline by showing that important transformations with regard to gender relations are occurring." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/1