Residential Mobility

Abstract

Residential mobility has been the subject of much research in various disciplines such as demography, economics, geography, history, and sociology. The meaning of this concept changes depending on the discipline, the date, and the national academic context. In its broadest sense, residential mobility can be defined as residence relocation regardless of the distance between the dwellings. The focus on the topic shifted from the measure of interregional migration to the study of individual behaviors in urban areas. In the meantime, the approaches diversified from a transversal perspective to a life course perspective, offering promising prospects of research.