High Mobility in Europe Work and Personal Life

by Viry, Gil; Kaufmann, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9781137447371
• ISBN10: 1137447370
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Travelling intensively to and for work helps – but also challenges – people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on an extensive European longitudinal study, High Mobility in Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situations. Using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, this book outlines patterns of high mobility over the life course and analyses the intersecting implications for family and career development, place attachment and social inequality. The contributors to this volume provide an important and timely contribution to the debate about the growing importance of mobility in contemporary societies.

Author Biography

Gil Viry is Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Associate Researcher at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, UK. His research fields include spatial mobility, social relationships, personal networks, and the family in space.
 

Vincent Kaufmann is Associate Professor of Urban Sociology and Mobility, and Director of the Urban Sociology Laboratory (LaSUR) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He has published widely in the fields of social and spatial mobility, urban life and public policies on land use, and transportation planning.

Table of Contents

1. High Mobility as Social Phenomenon; Vincent Kaufmann and Gil Viry

2. Methodological Choices and Research Design; Emmanuel Ravalet, Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin and Gil Viry

3. High Mobility in Europe: An Overview; Gil Viry, Emmanuel Ravalet, Vincent Kaufmann

4. Socialisation to High Mobility?; Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin and Emmanuel Ravalet

5. High Mobility Over the Life Course; Gil Viry and Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin

6. Motility and High Mobility; Yann Dubois, Emmanuel Ravalet, Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin and Vincent Kaufmann

7. Territories of High Mobility: Micro and Macro Analysis; Emmanuel Ravalet, Yann Dubois and Vincent Kaufmann

8. Family Development and High Mobility: Gender Inequality; Gil Viry; Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin and Vincent Kaufmann

9. Travel Time Use and Place Attachment by High Mobile People; Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin and Emmanuel Ravalet

10. Conclusions; Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin, Emmanuel Ravalet and Yann Dubois