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This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various types of spatial mobility? be it international or national? on partnership, family and work life. The contributions cover a range of important topics which focus on understanding how spatial mobility is related to familial relationships and life course transitions. The volume offers new insights by bringing together the state of the art in theoretical and empirical approaches from spatial mobility and international migration research. This includes, for example, studies that investigate the relationships between international migration and changing patterns of partnership choice, family formation and fertility. Complementing to this, this volume presents new empirical studies on job-related residential mobility and its impact on the relationship quality of couples, family life, and union dissolution. It also highlights the importance of research that looks at the reciprocal relationships between mobility and life course events such as young adults leaving the parental home in international migration context, re-arrangements of family life after divorce and spatial mobility of the elderly following life transitions. The scholarly work included in this volume does not only contribute to theoretical debates but also provide timely empirical evidence from various societies which represent the common features in the dynamics of spatial mobility and migration.

This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various types of spatial mobility - be it international or national- on partnership, family and work life. The contributions cover a range of important topics which focus on understanding how spatial mobility is related to familial relationships and life course transitions. The volume offers new insights by bringing together the state of the art in theoretical and empirical approaches from spatial mobility and international migration research. This includes, for example, studies that investigate the relationships between international migration and changing patterns of partnership choice, family formation and fertility. Complementing to this, this volume presents new empirical studies on job-related residential mobility and its impact on the relationship quality of couples, family life, and union dissolution. It also highlights the importance of research that looks at the reciprocal relationships between mobility and life course events such as young adults leaving the parental home in international migration context, re-arrangements of family life after divorce and spatial mobility of the elderly following life transitions. The scholarly work included in this volume does not only contribute to theoretical debates but also provide timely empirical evidence from various societies which represent the common features in the dynamics of spatial mobility and migration

This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various types of spatial mobility – be it international or national– on partnership, family and work life. The contributions cover a range of important topics which focus on understanding how spatial mobility is related to familial relationships and life course transitions. The volume offers new insights by bringing together the state of the art in theoretical and empirical approaches from spatial mobility and international migration research. This includes, for example, studies that investigate the relationships between international migration and changing patterns of partnership choice, family formation and fertility. Complementing to this, this volume presents new empirical studies on job-related residential mobility and its impact on the relationship quality of couples, family life, and union dissolution. It also highlights the importance of research that looks at the reciprocal relationships between mobility and life course events such as young adults leaving the parental home in international migration context, re-arrangements of family life after divorce and spatial mobility of the elderly following life transitions. The scholarly work included in this volume does not only contribute to theoretical debates but also provide timely empirical evidence from various societies which represent the common features in the dynamics of spatial mobility and migration.

The article is devoted to the analysis of dominant and alternative mobility systems in contemporary world. It is emphasized that mobility can be both real and potential actions in their connection with social relations in space and time. Mobility cannot exist without human need or desire to be at a certain time in a certain place. These factors lead to various types of mobility systems. It is noted that the mobility system is a complex of social relations and material infrastructure that make a certain type of spatial movement possible, repetitive and predictable. Any action or movement is possible only as part of a specific mobility system. In the modern world, there are dominant institutionally fastened mobility systems. One of the most common of these is the tourism system. The article analyzes some theoretical approaches to the study of tourism presented in the works of such scientists as Z. Bauman, J. Urry, T. Veblen and others. The attention is focused on the fact that the tourism system is highly influenced by market relations. Tourism has become a product of conspicuous consumption and one of the factors of social inequality reproduction at the same time. It is emphasized that there are alternative spatial mobility systems that are excluded from market logic. One of the most common alternative spatial mobility systems is hitchhiking, that is, the practice of free travel on passing nonscheduled vehicles with the consent of the driver. The features of the functioning of spatial mobility systems in the modern world are investigated. The properties of the dominant and alternative mobility systems are considered, as well as the differences between them are also analyzed. It has been revealed that alternative spatial mobility systems are built upon personalized trust relationships. Conclusion is made that hitchhiking performs the function of social integration.

Spatial mobility after leaving high school for further education is a dominant part of the transition to adulthood and accounts for a large proportion of total internal migration dynamics. Yet, it has been neglected in studies of social mobility. This study explores the link between spatial mobility during post-secondary education (for distances of at least 50 km) and occupational status acquired three years after finishing education, once young adults have had time to settle in the labor market. Starting from a path model, the goal is to identify the average indirect effect of spatial mobility operating though the mediator education, situated on the path between spatial mobility and occupational status as well as the (unmediated) direct effect. Direct and indirect effects are estimated via a novel inverse probability weighting (IPW) approach to account for the fact that selection into spatial mobility as well as into the mediator education is non-random and may bias the direct and indirect effect estimates. Analyses are based on nine waves of the Adult Cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), a representative, multi-cohort sample of German residents containing complete retrospective and prospective multidimensional information on individual life-courses. Contextual information on district-levels are matched with the data reflecting local educational opportunities when leaving high school as well as the degree of urbanization. Findings show that the mobile population is a highly selective group predestined towards career success, because they are achievement-oriented from the beginning and because they enjoyed pro-educational family environments. Yet, an unmediated direct effect of spatial mobility on occupational status remains, even after accounting for confounding factors. Thus, this study indicates that taking advantage of educational opportunities at distant locations may be beneficial to the social mobility of young people beyond educational advancement. Moreover, the results point towards effect heterogeneity in that spatial mobility increases socio-economic positions especially for those with disadvantageous starting positions.

The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as?floaters? has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, China, and questions the city?rights? issues beneath the city-making movement in contemporary China. In revealing and explaining the socio-spatial injustice phenomenon, this volume re-theorizes the?right to the city? in the Chinese context since Deng Xiaoping?s reforms. The policy review, census analysis, and housing survey are conducted to examine the housing rights of migrant workers, who are the least protected and most marginalized displacee groups in Beijing. The comparable studies serve to distinguish the displaced migrants from local displacee groups, and Beijing Municipality?s style of governance towards its urban informalities from that in other Third World cities like São Paulo. The reader will gain a better understanding of migrant workers? housing rights in China?s globalizing and branding primary cities. Audience: This book will be of great interest to researchers and policy makers in housing supplies, governance towards urban informalities, human rights and migration control, and housing-related social discontent issues in China today.

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This paper seeks to reframe the debates on cosmopolitanism and mobile cosmopolitan subjects by focusing its analysis on a multidimensional character of sociospatial relations. In particular, it critically engages with these works which too often see subjects as social categories and distinguish cosmopolitans from others, and which are silent about how people relate to space. The paper makes use of the study of mobile professionals working an international organization belonging to the United Nation family of organizations and argues that mobility in space creates a condition for emerging of sites of diversity and of new spatial imaginaries. It asks how these two aspects are related to each other. While the first aspect is addressed in the empirical studies, the paper makes a claim that cosmopolitanism is about challenging the latent spatial imaginaries and creating alternative geographies. Grounding this claim in empirical research, the paper complements the theoretical works on normative cosmopolitanism.

After the Great Recession, unemployment rose quickly. During 2013–2014, Croatia noticed unemployment rates above 17%, which were way over the EU 28 average. Today, Croatia instead experiences bottlenecks on the labour market: Job vacancies are increasingly lacking suitable skilled candidates. Thus, the Croatian labour market adapts badly to both recession and to a booming economy; namely, the Croatian labour market has low resilience. An economy with high labour market resilience can benefit from a booming economy, while an economy with the opposite faces wage inflation and loss of competitiveness. This article aims to analyse and discuss the role of labour mobility in reducing labour market bottlenecks and thereby increasing labour market resilience in Croatia. The method is tentative, and we use secondary, national, and international data and previous studies and findings. As we will show, the government has acknowledged skill shortages, and there are some (minor) reforms dealing with them. However, the connection between spatial mobility and labour market resilience in Croatia has not been noticed. Herein lies the novelty of this article. In this study, we find that Croatia has very low residential mobility, which we believe explains Croatia's low labour market resilience. Croatia's low mobility can be explained by tradition as well as by high transaction costs of moving. Our policy recommendations are (1) to lower transaction costs and simplify the moving process and (2) to increase occupational mobility through lifelong education and adult learning.