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Mobility trajectories and life courses

Jean-Paul Sanderson and Thierry Eggerickx

Mobility is a multifaceted phenomenon that includes, for example, commuting, residential migration and international migration. Research in these areas has benefited from numerous conceptual and methodological innovations over the last few decades. Approaches based on residential strategies and choices have revealed the varying degrees of leeway available to individuals and households to achieve their residential aspirations (in terms of location, tenure status, type and size of dwelling, etc.). Trajectory-based approaches have highlighted the interactions between residential migration and other spheres of socio-professional and family life, as well as the role played by past socialisation, the political and economic contexts in which individuals have lived, and networks of social and family relations.

The ageing of the population, changes in family models and residential arrangements, changes in public policy, particularly in terms of housing and spatial planning, but also the development (and recent questioning) of teleworking, are all phenomena impacting on residential mobility that justify further research in this area. International migration is also a factor in residential trajectories, with the phenomenon of return migration (voluntary or forced), remigration to the country of origin or to another country. These movements, which form part of the life course of individuals and families, have been transformed by changes in international contexts (political change, economic crises, climate change, globalisation, etc.), increasingly restrictive migration policies and increasingly complex administrative procedures.

This issue of the journal Espace, Populations, Sociétés will focus on residential and international mobility trajectories, with an emphasis on research that integrates them into life courses. The aim will be to analyse the interactions between residential trajectories and family, professional and administrative trajectories.... The social dimension of these interactions may also be addressed. Do the residential strategies included in life courses vary according to social group? Are migratory pathways more complex among the most disadvantaged social groups, given the greater fragility of their family and professional situations?

Articles may also focus on methods and data. Approaches may be both quantitative and qualitative.

Schedule

- Deadline for submitting proposals for articles (title and abstract of approximately 1-2 pages) : 30 March 2025

- Deadline for submission of articles to the Editorial Board : 31 July 2025

- Publication guidelines: https://journals.openedition.org/eps/3344

Contacts

Abstracts and contributions are to be sent to:

- Jean-Paul Sanderson, Chercheur Qualifié en démographie, UCLouvain, DEMO : jean-paul.sanderson@uclouvain.be

- Thierry Eggerickx, Directeur de recherche, UCLouvain, DEMO : Thierry.eggerickx@uclouvain.be

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