As increasing global temperatures lead to sea level rise and associated impacts (e.g. flooding, erosion, saltwater intrusion), the relocation of people and assets away from sites of coastal risk has been viewed by some as a certainty. However, many people affected by emerging coastal changes remain in sites of residence. Here we examine the experiences of residents in three low-lying villages across two small island states: Dreketi and Karoko in Fiji, and Funafala in Tuvalu. Analysis of qualitative data from interviews shows that residents are concerned about local coastal changes, and largely attribute them to climate change. While some anticipate future relocation and retreat, and a few households have retreated short distances away from the coast, for now residents remain in and move to these sites to maintain livelihoods, practices, well-being, and sense of belonging. These are places that people value and plan to live in as long as possible. The contribution of this paper is to highlight the vernacular explanations of overlapping drivers of immobility and translocality in sites of coastal risk. It indicates the need to move away from the binaries of immobility/mobility and of trapped/voluntarily immobile populations and to examine the multiplicities of human (im)mobility.

随着全球温度升高导致海平面上升以及相关影响（例如洪水，侵蚀，咸水入侵），某些人已经将人们和资产从沿海风险场所转移到其他地方是肯定的。但是，许多受到新出现的沿海变化影响的人仍留在居住地。在这里，我们考察了两个小岛国三个低洼村庄中居民的经历：斐济的德雷克蒂和卡罗科，图瓦卢的Funafala。对采访中定性数据的分析表明，居民关注当地的沿海变化，并将其主要归因于气候变化。尽管有些人预计将来会搬迁和撤退，并且一些家庭已经撤离了海岸附近的短距离，但现在居民仍留在这里并搬到这些地方以维持生计，习俗和福祉，和归属感。这些是人们珍视并计划尽可能长期居住的地方。本文的作用是突出对沿海风险场所中的不动因素和超地方性因素重叠的白话语解释。它表明有必要摆脱交通不便/机动性和被困/自愿不动人口的二元化，并研究人类（机动）不便的多重性。