Moving House, Creating Home: Exploring Residential Mobility

Abstract

This paper begins with a review of the residential mobility literature that arose out of housing and planning policy aimed at decreasing the negative effects of urban transience. The literature identified the range of factors influencing residential mobility, but Rossi's (1955) claim that mobility was a 'natural' outcome of life stage changes became the basis for the majority of this work. Most of this literature arose out of quantitative research approaches but writers drew attention to the inability of these approaches to capture the increasing complexity of family life and residential mobility. Drawing on data from the Christchurch, New Zealand, house and home study, this study argues that the qualitative ethnographic method used provides a more holistic approach to, and understanding of, the events and issues which influence household mobility over time. Within this context, the paper presents excerpts from interview data framed as ontological narratives and related stories embedded in social and economic contexts. Some of the themes identified are those of identity, home and place attachment, change and social differentiation, and the impact of gender relations on mobility decisions and experiences. These findings, like those in previous literature, are relevant to housing and planning policy making given the increasing diversity of residential developments and issues of access to social, financial and environmental resources. Understanding how individuals and families establish relationships between themselves and the places in which they live is important given increasingly divided and differentiated experiences of contemporary urban life.

Residential and job mobility: Interregional variation and their interplay in US metropolitan areas

“…Although it appears that disagreement exists in the literature on whether and to what extent this decision making can be described as rational or boundedrational behavior, recent studies tend to view residence and job changes as manifestations of choice from the perspective of an individual agent with a certain socio-economic status at a certain life stage (Dieleman, 2001;Winstanley et al, 2002). Furthermore, it has been suggested that residential and job relocation decisions are highly interrelated with each other and sometimes jointly made, because one choice can significantly affect the 6 outcome of another (Clark and Withers, 1999;van Ommeren et al, 1999 and2000;Kim et al, 2005;Kronenberg and Carree, 2012).…”

Del sedentarismo a la hipermovilidad. Medida y determinantes de las historias de (in)movilidad residencial en contextos urbanos

“…En este sentido, la calidad de la vivienda (Clark y Dieleman, 1996) o la satisfacción con su lugar de ubicación (Winstanley et al, 2002) constituyen factores clave, pero el indicador más claramente relacionado con las decisiones de (in)movilidad es el régimen de tenencia (Speare, 1970;Dieleman y Everaers, 1994;Helderman et al, 2004;Mulder, 2006). En los países donde el alquiler tiene una mayor presencia, sobre todo en los primeros pasos de la carrera residencial, la entrada a la propiedad ha sido considerada como uno de los pasos finales y que marcaba el inicio de periodos de sedentarismo más amplios (Kendig, 1984;Dieleman y Everaers, 1994).…”

Trajectórias residenciais e Metropolização: uma análise introdutória a propósito da AML

“…No âmbito da vasta bibliografia existente, foram feitas várias tentativas de caracterização/sistematização das diferentes correntes em presença (Dieleman, 2001;Dieleman, 1996;Clark e Dieleman, 1996;Clark e Onaka, 1983;Pickles e Davies, 1991;Bonvalet e Brun, 2003;Brun, 1993;Winstanley, Thorns e Perkins, 2002). No nosso entender, podem identificarse, pelo menos, duas tradições teórico-metodológicas: a do ciclo de vida e da racionalidade económica; e a biográfica e relacional.…”

“…Por último iremos fazer uma contextualização empírica do caso da AML, caracterizando o processos de metropolização da AML. No fundo, este paper apresenta-se como uma primeira discussão dos dois eixos temáticos (trajectórias residenciais e metropolização) que são centrais para este estudo.T Tr ra aj je ec ct tó ór ri ia as s r re es si id de en nc ci ia ai is s e e M Me et tr ro op po ol li iz za aç çã ão o: : u um ma a a an ná ál li is se e i in nt tr ro od du ut tó ór ri ia a a a p pr ro op pó ós si it to o d da a A AM ML L _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ No âmbito da vasta bibliografia existente, foram feitas várias tentativas de caracterização/sistematização das diferentes correntes em presença (Dieleman, 2001;Dieleman, 1996;Clark e Dieleman, 1996;Clark e Onaka, 1983;Pickles e Davies, 1991;Bonvalet e Brun, 2003;Brun, 1993;Winstanley, Thorns e Perkins, 2002). No nosso entender, podem identificarse, pelo menos, duas tradições teórico-metodológicas: a do ciclo de vida e da racionalidade económica; e a biográfica e relacional.…”