  We study the kinematics of T Tauri stars (TTS) located in the cores of the
Chamaeleon clouds as well as far off these clouds. Our sample comprises 2 early
type stars known to be related to Cha I, 6 classical (CTTS) and 6 weak-line T
Tauri stars (WTTS) known before the ROSAT mission, and 8 bona-fide pre-main
sequence (PMS) stars as well as 23 presumably older stars discovered with ROSAT
(Alcala et al. 1995; Covino et al. 1997). Altogether we present proper motions
for 45 stars, taken from the Hipparcos, ACT and STARNET catalogues. For 12
stars of our sample parallaxes measured by Hipparcos are available, and we use
them to derive constraints on the distance distribution of the other stars in
our sample. Our analysis of the proper motions allows us to divide the sample
into several subgroups. We analyse the motions of the stars in connection with
different star formation scenarios and find them consistent with both the high
velocity cloud (HVC) impact model (Lepine & Duvert 1994) and the cloudlet model
(Feigelson 1996), whereas the data seem to be inconsistent with any kind of a
dynamical ejection model.
