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Title: Brains and bodies on the move: A research agenda on precarious researchers’ mobility
Authors: Carrozza, Chiara 
Giorgi, Alberta 
Raffini, Luca
Keywords: Scientific mobility; European Union; Transnationality; Precariousness; LAR; Mobilidade científica; União Europeia; Transnacionalidade; Precariedade; LAR
Issue Date: Jul-2017
Serial title, monograph or event: Transnational scientific mobility. Perspectives from the North and the South
Abstract: Mobility represents a powerful factor of change. It redefines the structures of society and stimulates the re-orientation of identities, the feelings of belonging and the individual social networks. Indeed, mobility provides chances of life improvement but also brings about new risks and produces new inequalities. The EU represents an extraordinary laboratory of mobility and transnationality. This contribution focuses on a particular category of mobile Europeans: precarious situation of academic researchers. Young mobile researchers are part of the “Erasmus Generation” but they are also part of the “Precarious generation” carrying out theirwork with little security. Both these factors encourage mobility, acting as “pull” and “push” forces. We critically revise the theories on mobility and the governance of research mobility in EU policies, we analyse the available data on researchers’ mobility and finally, and drawing on an original database of interviews with female researchers, we explore the consequences of mobility in the realm of social and romantic relations.We focus, in particular, on the concept of ‘Living Apart Relationships’(LAR), that sheds light on an often-overlooked aspect in the ‘brain drain/circulation’ narratives, which is the fact that researchers, besides brains, have bodies too.We conclude outlining a new research agenda on academic researchers’ mobility in Europe that aims to overcome the neoliberal rhetoric on mobility and draw attention to the fact that both brains and bodies are on the move.
A mobilidade representa um fator de mudança, que redefine as estruturas da sociedade e promove a reorientação das identidades, pertença e redes sociais. A mobilidade oferece oportunidades, mas também traz novos riscos e novas desigualdade. A UE representa um laboratório extraordinário de mobilidade e trans-nacionalidade. A contribuição trabalha sobre uma específica categoria dos europeus móveis: os pesquisadores. Os jovens investigadores móveis são parte da “geração Erasmus” mas eles também são parte da “geração precária”. Ambos incentivam a mobilidade, com factores “push/pull”. Nós vamos a rever criticamente as teorias sobre a mobilidade e a governança da mobilidade científica nas políticas da UE, analisamos os dados disponíveis sobre a mobilidade académica e, com base em um banco de dados originais de entrevistas em profundidade com mulheres investigadoras, vamos explorar as consequências da mobilidade nas relações românticas. Nós nos concentramos, em particular, sobre o conceito de “Living Apart Relationships” (LAR), que permite de observar um aspecto muitas vezes negligenciado nas narrativas das “fuga/circulação de cérebros”: os pesquisadores, além de cérebros, têm corpos também. Nós concluímos delineando uma nova agenda de pesquisa sobre a mobilidade académica na Europa.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/87388
ISBN: 978-972-8048-16-7
Rights: openAccess
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