Is it simpler to leave than to stay put? Desired immobility in a Mexican village

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• dc.contributor.author Mata Codesal, Diana
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-10-29T12:40:39Z
• dc.date.available 2025-10-29T12:40:39Z
• dc.date.issued 2018
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Mata-Codesal D. Is it simpler to leave than to stay put? Desired immobility in a Mexican village. Population, space and place. 2018;24(4):e2127. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2127
• dc.identifier.doi https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.2127
• dc.identifier.issn 1544-8444
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71698
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Population, space and place. 2018;24(4):e2127.
• dc.rights This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mata-Codesal D. Is it simpler to leave than to stay put? Desired immobility in a Mexican village. Population, space and place. 2018;24(4):e2127. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2127, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.2127. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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• dc.subject.keyword Immobility
• dc.subject.keyword Rural stayers
• dc.subject.keyword Mexico
• dc.subject.keyword Aspiration/ability model
• dc.subject.keyword Desired immobility
• dc.title Is it simpler to leave than to stay put? Desired immobility in a Mexican village
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• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
• dcterms.abstract This paper ethnographically explores particular ways of staying put in a Mexican village that builds upon a myriad of present and past mobilities. By doing so, the research contributes to open the black box of rural immobility. Three broad types of stayers are identified: desired, acquiescent, and involuntary stayers. The ethnographic material supports the explanatory power of breaking down the aspiration phase from the realisation one to understand the (mis)matching between desires and capacities for situations of permanence. The research particularly explores how villagers willing to remain, have managed to stay put in a context of high physical mobility, and how staying villagers perceive the desirability and feasibility of staying put compared with that of migrating. Staying put, similarly to migration, is often part of complex life strategies that involve changing mobility–immobility articulations. In the particular ethnographic context, staying put is ascribed an intrinsic positive value. Migration (whether internal or international) has an instrumental value as the means to be able to remain in the village.