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Using the pathways approach to uncover the social effects of involuntary home moves
Darren Baxter, The University of [email protected]
Project aims
1. Conceptual definition of an involuntary home move
2. Incidence of involuntary home moves
3. The effect of involuntary home moves
Outline
• What is an involuntary home move
• Overview of literature review (so far)
• Employing the pathways approach
What is an involuntary home move?
• Binary vs. scalar
Voluntary Involuntary
What is an involuntary home move?
• Considerations
– Temporal– Different levels in household– Agency– External context– Attitude
What is an involuntary home move?
Conceptualising involuntary home moves
-10
+10+10
Choice exercised over the move
Extent to which the move was caused by an
external factor
-10
-10 wholly involuntary+10 wholly voluntary
Literature review
• Diverse– No single involuntary home moves literature– Multiple backgrounds– Quantitative and qualitative– Multiple focusses
0 08 2 4x 6 75 access accessing activites anxiety associated benefits care caused
change children choice contact decision decline decrease depression
desire difficulty distress due effects emotional end
environment evidence factors families feeling feelings freedom
functioning generally greater health higher households
housing identity impact improvement increase increased initially isolation lack life likely liklihood
limited living location loss lower making mental mixed
mortality move moves moving need negative
neighbourhood networks neutral new number perception physical positive post practical privacy process rather
quality related religious satisfaction sense
short significant size social statistically stress style
subjective support term terms uncertainty upward worries
Pathways approach
• What is the pathways approach?– Clapham (2005)– Housing histories– Social constructionist view
Pathways approach cont.
• Why? What value?
• “A key contribution provided by the life course model is the recognition that individual biographies are strongly conditioned by the sequence and contexts within which life events are experience”
• Coulter and van Ham (2013:1040)
Pathways approach cont.
• Context noted by a number of authors as important when moving out of SRS due to clearance and redevelopment
– (Lelevrier, 2013, Kleinhams, 2003; Kleinhams and Bouma-Doff, 2008, Oakley and Burchfield, 2009, Posthumus et al, 2009,Walker, 2014 Kearns and Mason, 2013 and Fang, 2006)
• Lelevrier (2013) – 3 types of mover
– Older working class families: neutral move, choice due to area knowledge and contacts
– Vulnerable households and large immigrant families: Neutral or downward moves - lack of choice due to the need to minimise rent
– Small working households: Upward move - lots of choice as a desirable tenant
How to operationalise?
• Sequence analysis• Is useful for looking at life course data (Halpin, 2011)• Looks at the transition between states (Ham, 2013)
• Allows for the creation of ‘typical’ pathways which can be used as variables in the analysis of the effect of moving.
References• Coulter, R and van Ham, M (2013) Following people through time: An analysis of involuntary mobility
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Redeveloped Neighbourhoods in Inner-City Beijing. Housing Studies, 21(5), pp. 671-694. • Halpin, B (2011) Simulating sequences. Talk – 14 OCT 2013 – Universite Paris• Ham, S (2013) Social Sequence analysis: An overview. Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=9WJPook9Qsc – 09/04/2014• KEARNS, A. and MASON, P., 2013. Defining and Measuring Displacement: Is Relocation from Restructured
Neighbourhoods Always Unwelcome and Disruptive? Housing Studies, 28(2), pp. 177-204.• Kleinhams, R. (2003) Dispalced but still moving upwards in the housing career? Implications of foced
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