title: Re-thinking residential mobility: Linking lives through time and space.
abstract: While researchers are increasingly re-conceptualizing international migration, far less attention has been devoted to re-thinking short-distance residential mobility and immobility. In this paper we harness the life course approach to propose a new conceptual framework for residential mobility research. We contend that residential mobility and immobility should be re-conceptualized asrelational practicesthat link lives through time and space while connecting people to structural conditions. Re-thinking and re-assessing residential mobility by exploiting new developments in longitudinal analysis will allow geographers to understand, critique and address pressing societal challenges.
authors.affiliation: University of Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Rory
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Coulter
authors.affiliation: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and University of St Andrews, UK.
authors.forename: Maarten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Ham
authors.affiliation: University of St Andrews, UK.
authors.forename: Allan M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Findlay
keywords: life course; linked lives; population geography; practice; relationality; residential mobility