relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/130/
title: Immobility among the highly mobile: University graduates’ staying processes, perceptions, and places.
creator: Thomassen, Jonne
description: This study explores the motives and staying processes of university graduates in a peripheral city. By means of fifteen life calendar interviews, the study adopts a qualitative, life course approach to staying behaviour and covers three main ideas of the immobility literature, namely: the agency of stayers in the staying process, the perceptions of stayers on staying behaviour, and the spatial dimension of staying. The findings confirm that: stayers play an active role in their personal staying process; they reflect consciously on their staying behaviour at multiple moments during the life course; the staying process may be active or passive depending on the presence of triggers; staying may have both positive and negative consequences; and finally, motives for staying are intrinsically linked to the staying place but are commonly presented as configurations of preferences based on the individual, the meso context, the physical environment, and the socio-cultural environment.
date: 2018
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/130/1/Thomassen_MasterThesis.pdf
identifier:   Thomassen, Jonne  (2018) Immobility among the highly mobile: University graduates’ staying processes, perceptions, and places.  Master thesis.