Re-thinking residential mobility: linking lives through time and space

Rory  Coulter; Maarten Van Ham; Allan MacKay Findlay

doi:10.1177/0309132515575417

Re-thinking residential mobility: linking lives through time and space

Rory Coulter, Maarten Van Ham, Allan MacKay Findlay

School of Geography & Sustainable Development

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Abstract

While researchers are increasingly re-conceptualizing international migration, far less attention has been devoted to re-thinking short-distance residential mobility and immobility. In this paper we harness the life course approach to propose a new conceptual framework for residential mobility research. We contend that residential mobility and immobility should be re-conceptualized as relational practices that link lives through time and space while connecting people to structural conditions. Re-thinking and re-assessing residential mobility by exploiting new developments in longitudinal analysis will allow geographers to understand, critique and address pressing societal challenges.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	352-374
Number of pages	23
Journal	Progress in Human Geography
Volume	40
Issue number	3
Early online date	16 Mar 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515575417
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2016

Keywords

Life course
Linked lives
Population geography
Practice
Relationality
Residential mobility

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DEPRIVEDHOODS: DEPRIVEDHOODS - Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods amd neighbourhood effects
Findlay, A. M. (PI)
European Research Council
1/08/14 → 31/07/19
Project: Standard
CPC2 - Allan Findlay: Centre for Population Change
Findlay, A. M. (PI), Kulu, H. (PI) & McCollum, D. (CoI)
Economic & Social Research Council
1/01/14 → 31/03/19
Project: Standard
Longitudinal Study Development HUB: UK Census Longitudinal Study Development Hub
Cox, F. M. (PI), Findlay, A. M. (PI) & Kulu, H. (CoI)
Economic & Social Research Council
1/08/12 → 14/08/18
Project: Standard

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DEPRIVEDHOODS: DEPRIVEDHOODS - Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods amd neighbourhood effects

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Longitudinal Study Development HUB: UK Census Longitudinal Study Development Hub

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