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Residential Mobility: Implications for Families and Communities

Volume 14 Number 3

Mark D. Shroder

Michelle P. Matuga

Mobility, Mixing, and Neighborhood Change: A British Perspective

Ade Kearns, University of Glasgow

The articles in this symposium highlight three important areas of inquiry related to residential mobility—what constitutes mobility, the processes of mobility, and the effects of mobility on different groups and locations. In each of these areas, the challenge of understanding becomes more difficult as research reveals the complexity of the underlying processes. Further, our consideration of these challenges helps to identify the integral link between residential mobility studies and research on neighborhood effects (Hedman and van Ham, 2012).