This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various
types of spatial mobility - be it international or national - on partnership family and work
life. The contributions cover a range of important topics which focus on understanding how
spatial mobility is related to familial relationships and life course transitions. The volume
offers new insights by bringing together the state of the art in theoretical and empirical
approaches from spatial mobility and international migration research. This includes for
example studies that investigate the relationships between international migration and
changing patterns of partnership choice family formation and fertility. Complementing to this
this volume presents new empirical studies on job-related residential mobility and its impact
on the relationship quality of couples family life and union dissolution. It also highlights
the importance of research that looks at the reciprocal relationshipsbetween mobility and life
course events such as young adults leaving the parental home in international migration context
re-arrangements of family life after divorce and spatial mobility of the elderly following life
transitions. The scholarly work included in this volume does not only contribute to theoretical
debates but also provide timely empirical evidence from various societies which represent the
common features in the dynamics of spatial mobility and migration.
