Leaving, staying in and returning to the hometown: Couple's residential location choices at the time of family formation

Artikel

Couples' residential decisions are based on a large variety of factors including housing preferences, family and other social ties, socialisation and residential biography (e.g. earlier experience in the life course) and environmental factors (e.g. housing market, labour market). This study examines, firstly, to what extent people stay in, return to or leave their hometown (referred to as 'migration type'). We refer to the hometown as the place where most of childhood and adolescence is spent. Secondly, we study which conditions shape a person's migration type. We mainly focus on variables capturing elements of the residential biography and both partners' family ties and family socialisation. We focus on the residential choices made at the time of family formation, i.e. when the first child is born. We employ multinomial regression modelling and cross-tabulations, based on two generations in a sample of families who mostly live in the wider Ruhr area, born around 1931 (parents) and 1957 (adult children). We find that migration type is significantly affected by a combination of both partners' place of origin, both partners' parents' places of residence, the number of previous moves, level of education and hometown population size. We conclude that complex patterns of experience made over the life course, socialisation and gendered patterns are at work. These mechanisms should be kept in mind when policymakers develop strategies to attract (return) migrants.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: Gehen, Bleiben und Zurückkommen zum Ort der Kindheit und Jugend: Wohnstandortwahl von Paaren zur Zeit der Familiengründung
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and Planning ; ISSN: 1869-4179 ; Volume: 80 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 414-433 ; München: oekom verlag

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung
• Thema: residential choice ; residential biography ; intergenerational family ties ; return migration ; family formation ; Wohnstandortentscheidung ; Wohnbiographie ; familiäre Bindungen ; Rückwanderung ; Familiengründung

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Albrecht, Janna ; Scheiner, Joachim
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): oekom verlag
• (wo): München
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.14512/rur.132
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/266771
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ