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Following People Through Time

An Analysis of Individual Residential Mobility Biographies

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ID11484693
AuthorsRory Coulter (0000-0002-0773-8919, ,, corresponding author), Maarten Van Ham (0000-0002-2106-0702, ,)
Year2013
Volume28
Issue7
Pages1037-1055
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHousing Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-3037 • E-ISSN: 1466-1810
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02673037.2013.783903
OpenAlexW2123317529
LanguageEN
Citations received102
References cited33

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

Affect (linguistics · British Household Panel Survey · Demographic economics · Economics · Life course approach · Longitudinal data · Longitudinal study · Mobilities · Snapshot (computer storage · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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