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Links Between Internal Migration, Commuting and Inter-Household Relationships
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External Links:  ResearchersAbstract:The research aims to explore the links between internal migration and commuting behaviour. These are both forms of spatial mobility, and will be examined in the context of household compositions: that is, the set of people who live in a household, and the way that they are related to one another. The research will explore the hypothesis that different household compositions influence patterns of migration and commuting, and also examines the ways in which migration changes household compositions. The research will be conducted using census migration and commuting data. These data respectively give information about the people who migrated in the year prior to the 2001 Census between specific origins and destinations, and the journeys that people made (as reported in the census) to their place of work. Both data sets give some information about household compositions; however much more information can be found using the individual level records in the Longitudinal Study (LS), and this will be used to generate a detailed framework to link the commuting and migration data sets together. In particular, focus will be placed on groups of people who move together. In cases where two or more people move together, the family relationships between those people will be examined. In cases where people move into households that already contain residents, two other sets of family relationships will be studied: the relationships between the existing household residents (where there are two or more existing residents), and any relationships between those who have moved in and those who were existing residents. Information about motivations related to migration and commuting can be found in another longitudinal data set, the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and in the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Both of these contain far more personal information about respondents that the Census does, as well as allowing comparisons to be made between people’s situations before and after migrating. Again, this will be done in the context of household compositions, and relationships between and within migrant groups and resident groups. The research will use mapping and statistical tests to describe the trends in migration and commuting that are observed in the main data sets within the context of differing household compositions. Statistical models will be developed that account for migration and commuting flows. Reported motivations for moving be coupled with a model of the ways that households form and the ways in which people leave households in order to consider the interaction between economic and domestic motivations for migration and commuting decisions. Department:School of Geography, University of Leeds Duration:1st Aug 2006 - 30th Feb 2008 Grant Type:Small Research Grant PublicationsDuke-Williams, O. (2009) Internal migration and inter-household relationships, in Stillwell, J., Coast, e. and Thomas, D. (eds.) Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility Understanding Population Trends and Processes Volume 1, Springer, Dordrecht. Duke-Williams, O. (2009) The geographies of student migration in
the UK, Environment and Planning A PresentationsDuke-Williams, O. (2008) Presentation at the RGS-IBG Conference September. Duke-Williams, O. (2008) Presentation at the UPTAP conference, Leeds, March. Duke-Williams, O. (2007) Poster at the UPTAP conference, Leeds, March. Duke-Williams, O. (2007) Presentation at the AAG conference, San Francisco 16-22 April.
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