Children's Experience of Mobility in Post-Separation Families: Intimacy, Home and Journeying

在英国，分居后的家庭生活对儿童来说越来越普遍，因为Relate估计，三分之一的英国儿童在16岁之前将受到父母分居的影响。由于这些儿童中有许多人工作以保持与父母双方的联系，有时跨越很长的距离，流动性成为他们家庭生活时空组织的核心动力;导致许多儿童定期进行重要的旅行，作为他们两个家庭日常生活的一部分。使用深度访谈和参与式视觉方法相结合，我的博士学位将探索孩子们自己的经验，这些具有挑战性的过渡时期。以旅行包括时刻的准备，离开，旅行和到达，研究将探讨这些旅程的不同空间，材料和时间配置和儿童的情感和情感体验。因此，提出这样的问题，即这种旅行是如何塑造儿童与家庭成员的关系的，以及儿童与家庭成员的关系是如何塑造的，他们的家庭生活方式，以及他们能够行使的能动性的程度和形式。因此，博士学位将在流动性，家庭，家庭和儿童地理的关键地理文学之间建立新的联系。

Living within post-separation families is an increasingly common experience for children within the UK, as Relate estimate that a third of British children will be affected by parental separation before the age of 16. As many of these children work to maintain contact with both parents, at times across large-distances, mobility becomes a central dynamic in the spatio-temporal organisation of their family life; leading many children to make significant journeys on a regular basis as part of their two-home domestic routine. Using a combination of in-depth interviews and participatory visual methods, my PhD will explore children's own experiences these challenging periods of transition. Taking journeying to encompass moments of preparing, leaving, travelling and arriving, the research will explore the varying spatial, material and temporal configurations of these journeys and children's emotional and affectual experiences of them. Thus, asking questions of the ways in which this journeying shapes, and is shaped by, children's relationships with their family members, their home-making practices, and the degree and forms of agency they are able to exercise. The PhD will, therefore, draw new connections between literature on mobility, the family, critical geographies of the home and children's geographies.