High Mobility in Europe: Work and Personal Life

by Gil Viry (Editor), Vincent Kaufmann (Editor)

Overview

Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large European longitudinal study, Mobile Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situations and the implications for family and career development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137447371
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/12/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Yann Dubois, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Vincent Kaufmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Emmanuel Ravalet, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Stephanie Vincent-Geslin, Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat, France Gil Viry, University of Edinburgh, UK

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

Editorial Reviews

The various quantitative and qualitative methods – including their limitations – are outlined in detail in a separate chapter on the overall methodological framework. Indeed, readers may find it surprising how successfully data from a two-wave panel survey, life-story interviews and photo elicitation exercises complement each other both across and within chapters. This coherence is what gives the volume its main strength and argumentative authority. … the book evidences that thorough empirical research on mobility practices is both desirable and possible.” (Chris Moreh, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (6), 2016)

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