Following people through time : an analysis of individual residential mobility biographies
Abstract
The life course framework guides us towards investigating how dynamic life course careers affect residential mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout long periods of individual lifetimes. However, most longitudinal studies linking mobility decision-making to subsequent moving behaviour focus only on year-to-year transitions. This study moves beyond this snapshot approach by analysing the long-term sequencing of moving desires and mobility behaviour within individual lives. Using novel techniques to visualise the desire–mobility sequences of British Household Panel Survey respondents, the study demonstrates that revealing the meanings and significance of particular transitions in moving desires and mobility behaviour requires these transitions to be arranged into mobility biographies. The results highlight the oft-neglected importance of residential stability over the life course, uncovering groups of individuals persistently unable to act in accordance with their moving desires.
Citation
Coulter , R C & Van Ham , M 2013 , ' Following people through time : an analysis of individual residential mobility biographies ' , Housing Studies , vol. 28 , no. 7 , pp. 1037-1055 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2013.783903
Publication
Housing Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0267-3037Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Housing Studies on 24/04/2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02673037.2013.783903
Description
Maarten van Ham’s contribution to this research was partly made possible through the financial support of the EU Marie Curie programme under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / Career Integration Grant n. PCIG10-GA-2011-303728 (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects).Collections
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