Relocation (personal)
Relocation, also known as moving is the process of vacating a fixed location (such as a residence or business) and settling in a different one. A move can be to a nearby location within the same neighborhood, a much farther location in a different city, or sometimes a different country. On the Holmes and Rahe stress scale for adults, "change of residence" is considered a stressful activity, assigned 20 points (with death of spouse being ranked the highest at 100)[1], although other changes on the scale (e.g. "change in living conditions", "change in social activities") often occur as a result of relocating, making the overall stress level potentially higher.
Various studies have found that moving house is often particularly stressful for children and is sometimes associated with long-term problems.[2][3][4][5]
Expatriate's Relocation
Often big corporations relocate their employees for short- to long-term assignments abroad. Quite often such relocation is supported by a relocation service, which assists internationally assigned personnel in finding and/or moving into a new house, organizing school for children, conducting local culture training and in general terms, supporting integration into the new location and/or culture.[6]
Individual members of skilled professions may also independently find work in countries to which they are not native. In these cases, the support systems mentioned above may be absent.
[edit] See also
- Emigration
- Grief
- Home
- Immigration
- Military brat
- Moving Day (New York City)
- Moving Day (Quebec)
- Structure relocation
- Third culture kid
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Holmes-Rahe Scale
- ^ Sheppard, Caroline H.; William Steele (2003). "Moving Can Become Traumatic". Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions. Nat'l Inst for Trauma and Loss in Children. http://www.tlcinst.org/Moving.html. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ Pettit, Becky (March 2000). "Moving and Children's Social Connections: the critical importance of context". Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Working Papers. CRCW, Princeton University. http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP98-04-Pettit.pdf. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ Oesterreich, Lesia (April 2004). "Understanding children: moving to a new home". Iowa State University. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1529G.pdf. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ Roman, Beverly D.. "Relocating Our Smallest Movers". Families in Global Transition. Families in Global Transition. http://www.figt.org/smallest_movers.
- ^ Warsaw Expat's Guide - Relocation Process
 |
This sociology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
