Ways of Staying Put in Ecuador

Social and Embodied Experiences of Mobility-Immobility Interactions

Bibliographic Data

ID3606346
AuthorsDiana Mata-Codesal
Year2015
Volume41
Issue14
Pages2274-2290
Publication date2015-12-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2015.1053850
OpenAlexW1949038900
LanguageEN
Citations received89
References cited37

Immobility is to be complicated as a topic of study in research on human migration. This paper analyses different ways of staying put, investigating the motivations, degree of (in)voluntariness and associated narratives, to show how immobility is as complex a research category as mobility. It does so in the context of irregular male migration from a rural location in Andean Ecuador to the USA. This paper also focuses on the interactions between mobility and immobility. Families with migrant and non-migrant members are imbued with and affected by changing mobility-immobility dynamics. This paper explores such dynamics to facilitate the understanding of local sociocultural logic, where mobility and immobility are infused with specific meaning, while placing such dynamics within global regimes of (im)mobility

Context (archaeology · Dynamics (music · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Geography · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Social dynamics · Social mobility · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Voluntariness · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology