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Mobility and Residential Communities: Insights into the Daily Mobility of Elderly People
Community environments are important factors affecting seniors’ daily mobility; however, how environments work still lacks a deep understanding....
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Smart Mobility and Industrial Technologies The Quality of Life in Sustainable Cities
This book discusses many issues related to the impact of advanced technologies on quality of human life. It covers several areas and use cases that...
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A Working Framework on Multinational Mobility: Haitians’ Post-2010 Journeys from South America to Mexico
The purpose of this article is to outline a model of multinational mobility as revealed via the trajectories Haitian migrants embark on today....
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Women and Intergenerational Mobility in Education: A Micro-Level Study from Weavers’ Community of Varanasi, India
Macro-level studies on intergenerational mobility among women in India suggests that, there is a need to further probe certain excluded communities...
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Housing Demolition and Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China
We identify the causal impact of housing demolition on employment and occupational mobility of working-age individuals in China. We exploit housing...
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Mobility Exchanges and the “Experience” of Learning on the Move
The chapter begins from an acknowledgment of the porous boundaries between formal and non-formal education. Such opportunities are supported across...
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Is Geographical Mobility Beneficial? The Impact of the South-to-North Internal Migration on Occupational Achievement in Italy
Geographical mobility plays a crucial role in sha** demographic and social change, yet few studies have examined its impact on occupational success...
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Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth
In the context of US higher education, the collective advancement of low-income youth, especially youth of color, has been limited. Latinxs are...
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Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border Areas of Italy: Crossroads of Transit and Temporalities of (Im)mobility
In border areas, time and space are constantly suspended from the usual rules along a liminal pathway transforming status and identity. In order to...
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People go Low: The Paradox of Choice in the Mobility of “the Low-Income” in China
The literature on internal migration in China has paid little attention to rapidly changing migration circumstances and has failed to capture the...
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Organized Violence and Historical Sociology
This chapter briefly reviews and analyzes the key contributions on organized violence within historical sociology. It explores both the macro- and...
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Work and Gender in the Context of Spatial Mobility and Migration: the Case of Highly Skilled Italians Abroad
Young, skilled and educated Italians have been emigrating in record numbers: About 160,000 Italians moved abroad in 2018 alone. While much of recent...
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Isotopic Evidence for Mobility in the Copper and Bronze Age Cemetery of Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): a Diachronic Approach Using Biological and Archaeological Variables
Over the last several decades, the application of aDNA and strontium isotope analyses on archaeologically recovered human remains has provided new...
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Organized Violence and Historical Sociology
This chapter briefly reviews and analyzes the key contributions on organized violence within historical sociology. It explores both the macro- and...
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Social Mobility from a Gender Perspective: Dynamics of Mothers’ Roles in Daughters’ Labor Market Performance
This study empirically examines the roles that mothers play in daughters’ income across different birth cohorts. While existing studies mostly focus...
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Intergenerational Social Mobility and Youth Well-Being in the Context of the Greek Socio-Economic Crisis
Intergenerational social mobility and its associations with youth well-being has scarcely been examined in Greece. This study examines educational...
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Organized Muslim Women in Coalitions: Possibilities and Obstacles
This chapter finds that organized Muslim women travel within and across different social movements. Conservative Muslim women interviewed for the...
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Rethinking Residential Mobility in a Context of Precariousness: Disadvantage and Downward Trajectories in Madrid and Barcelona
The study of residential mobility has been dominated by approaches based on the choices of individuals and households and on the assumption between...
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Germany: New Migration In-Between a Job Market Boom, Skill Shortages and Precarious Mobility
Germany emerged in the 21st century as one of the most important destinations for international labour migration. This mobility came to a significant...
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Towards a Mobility Perspective on Care
With this volume, we aim to renew care research and theory by seriously considering the idea that daily mobilitiesDaily mobilities are an important...