ABSTRACT
“Multilocation,” as used in this chapter, refers to a lifestyle in which subjects dwell in more than one living place, and thus travel (with a certain degree of regularity) between those locations. This concept has been explored as “multiresidentiality” (Kaufmann 2002), as multiple dwelling (Stock 2006), and as multilocal living, namely, “the existence and use of more than one place of residence” (Hilti 2009: 148). We can also speak of multilocation as an “extreme” form of migration pendulaires (commuting migration), to use Meissoner’s (2001) words. To give some anecdotal examples, multilocal living can refer to the businessperson who works in Frankfurt but has family in Bordeaux; the miner returning home every two weeks; the academic researcher with a fellowship in Madrid but returning every week to Vienna, the city where her or his family lives; or the Dutch retired couple travelling every two months to a little house they purchased in Greece.
