TY - JOUR
T1 - Boomerang behaviour and emerging adulthood
T2 - moving back to the parental home and the parental neighbourhood in Sweden
AU - Olofsson, Jenny
AU - Sandow, Erika
AU - Findlay, Allan
AU - Malmberg, Gunnar
N1 - Open access funding provided by Umeå University. The research has been conducted at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR), Umeå University, and is part of the research on the Ageing and Living Conditions. Financial support from Umeå University, ‘Mobility, Transformation and Regional Growth’, Dnr UMU-300- 2054-12.
PY - 2020/3/18
Y1 - 2020/3/18
N2 - This paper makes two original contributions to research on young adults’
boomerang mobility. First, it reveals the magnitude and complexity of
return moves by young people to their parental home and neighbourhood.
Secondly, it shows that the determinants and associates of return
migration vary significantly when analysed at two different geographical
scales—the parental home and the parental neighbourhood area. Using
longitudinal data (1986–2009) on four cohorts of young adults, we find
that boomeranging to the parental home in Sweden has increased in times
of economic recession and is associated with economic vulnerability,
such as leaving higher education or entering unemployment, and
partnership dissolution. While returning to the parental home can offer
financial support in times of life course reversal, we found gender
differences indicating a greater independence among young women than
men. Returning to the parental neighbourhood is found to be a very
different kind of mobility than returning to co-reside with one’s
parents, involving the migration decisions of more economically
independent young adults. Results also indicate that returns to the
parental neighbourhood, as well as returns to the parental home, can be
part of young people’s life course changes.
AB - This paper makes two original contributions to research on young adults’
boomerang mobility. First, it reveals the magnitude and complexity of
return moves by young people to their parental home and neighbourhood.
Secondly, it shows that the determinants and associates of return
migration vary significantly when analysed at two different geographical
scales—the parental home and the parental neighbourhood area. Using
longitudinal data (1986–2009) on four cohorts of young adults, we find
that boomeranging to the parental home in Sweden has increased in times
of economic recession and is associated with economic vulnerability,
such as leaving higher education or entering unemployment, and
partnership dissolution. While returning to the parental home can offer
financial support in times of life course reversal, we found gender
differences indicating a greater independence among young women than
men. Returning to the parental neighbourhood is found to be a very
different kind of mobility than returning to co-reside with one’s
parents, involving the migration decisions of more economically
independent young adults. Results also indicate that returns to the
parental neighbourhood, as well as returns to the parental home, can be
part of young people’s life course changes.
KW - Boomerang mobility
KW - Life course
KW - Young adults
KW - Longitudinal
KW - Returning home
U2 - 10.1007/s10680-020-09557-x
DO - 10.1007/s10680-020-09557-x
M3 - Article
SN - 0168-6577
VL - First Online
JO - European Journal of Population
JF - European Journal of Population
ER -
