This excellent book embraces the challenge of researching informal gendered institutions, whose norms and practices are opaque and difficult to study. Through a variety of empirical cases and methods, it significantly enriches feminist institutionalist theory, providing key insights on power, institutions, and the dynamics between opponents and advocates of gender equality norms. All scholars interested in politics, gender and institutions should read it.

Emanuela Lombardo, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Madrid Complutense University, Spain

Gender and Mobility brings a critical approach to the study of gender and migration, using feminist theories to understand how gender shapes global mobilities, and how local, national and international policy frameworks impact on these. I would highly recommend this book to all those interested in migration, mobility and gender relations.

Jane Freedman, Professor, Université Paris 8

Penttinen and Kynsilehto take us on a scholarly feminist journey that maps gender and mobility in deeply empathetic, challenging and unsettling ways. Gender and migration scholars will read this book but its significance is greater for those in mainstream IR who continue to believe that we can theorise without considering the lived realities of people moving across space and time. That myth has been powerfully busted in this book.

Swati Parashar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden