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creators_name: Thomassen, Jonne
title: Immobility among the highly mobile: University graduates’ staying processes, perceptions, and places.
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abstract: 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
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: RS
tutors_name: Haartsen, Prof. Dr. T.
keywords_local: stayers
keywords_local: periphery
keywords_local: life calendar interviews
keywords_local: immobility
keywords_local: university graduates
language_iso: en
titleorder: Immobility among the highly mobile: University graduates’ staying processes, perceptions, and places.
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date_issued: 2018-01-01
citation:   Thomassen, Jonne  (2018) Immobility among the highly mobile: University graduates’ staying processes, perceptions, and places.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/130/1/Thomassen_MasterThesis.pdf