This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation. Drawing on multiple nationally representative data sets, the book explores historic patterns and current trends in household mobility; individuals mobility-related decisions; and the individual, family, and community outcomes associated with moving. These sections inform later discussions of mobility-related policy, practice, and directions for future research.
1. Defining and Theorizing about Household Mobility
2. Historical and Recent Trends in American Mobility
3. Characteristics of the Mobile Population
4. Household Mobility Decisions and Location Choice
5. Individual- and Family-Level Mobility Effects
6. Mobility Effects and Cumulative Mobility Contexts
7. Spatial and Community Consequences
8. Policy Initiatives, Programs, and Praxis
Brian Joseph Gillespie is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, USA. He has published research in a variety of social science journals on topics related to family, the life course, and interpersonal relationships using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Contextualizes the effects of relocation on American families
Discusses comprehensive national data sets
Tackles questions such as, Who moves where, how, and why? What are the effects? So what? What next?
Brian Gillespie, a young scholar who has published extensively on the topic of household mobility, tackles an important American experience that has thus far gone without this sort of systematl3Y
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