High Mobility in Europe Work and Personal Life [Hardcover]

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.

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

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

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

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

5. High Mobility Over the Life Course; Gil Viry and St?phanie Vincent-Geslin

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

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

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

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 pol#&