Household Mobility in America: Patterns, Processes, and Outcomes

by Brian Joseph Gillespie

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137430762
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/23/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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From the Publisher

“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 systematic attention. This timely work will be valuable to any researcher interested in American culture and family.” (Shige Oishi, Professor at the University of Virginia, USA)