Two dwellings, one home? Children's daily experiences of multilocal family life

This presentation is based on research conducted with 21 Belgian children, aged 10-16, who live in an egalitarian shared custody arrangement following a parental separation. This study focuses on how these adolescents define and construct a sense of home in this context of circular mobility. The presentation will describe the original, participatory methodology used in this project, and some key results. These include, on the one hand, the type of borders that parents create between their respective dwelliings, and with which children must compose in their daily practices and, on the other hand, the practices and attitudes children develop to "inhabit multilocality", i.e, to cope with these periods of absence and presence and build a "singular-plural" sense of home that connects their family dwellings into a coherent whole