In this paper, we aim to contribute to a growing body of literature that explores the affective geographies of young people’s internal migration decisions using mobilities/immobilities as our conceptual framework. As such, our focus is not only on why young people choose to leave their hometowns but also why some choose to stay. By paying attention to young people’s experiences of being away, we also shed light on why some young people choose to return to regional areas having left for a time. In emphasising the affective, material, and embodied dimensions of these experiences, the affordances of rural and urban places are also brought to light. Fifty young people aged between 18 and 34 years from three regional Australian towns took part in the study by participating in semi-structured interviews. Qualitative findings indicate that the internal migration decisions of these regional young people were predominantly affective. We demonstrate how bodies were affected by the particularities of place – including materialities and relations with human and non-humans – that worked to connect or unify bodies, evoking feelings of inclusion and security. We discuss how the affective atmospheres of places pushed into and onto bodies, making them feel dislocated or oppressed, and the way that places worked to push bodies out through the embodied experience of difference. The participants in our study emphasised the dilemma of these affective pushes and pulls, where feelings of belonging, or longing for home or country had to be negotiated, reconsidered, and re-worked in relation to the unfolding of place.

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“寻找家园”：区域青年（im）流动性的情感地理

在本文中，我们旨在为越来越多的文献做出贡献，这些文献以流动/不动作为我们的概念框架，探索年轻人内部迁移决策的情感地理。因此，我们关注的不仅是年轻人选择离开家乡的原因，还有一些人选择留下的原因。通过关注年轻人的远行经历，我们也揭示了为什么一些年轻人选择回到已经离开一段时间的地区。在强调这些体验的情感、物质和体现维度时，农村和城市地方的可供性也被曝光。来自澳大利亚三个地区城镇的 50 名年龄在 18 至 34 岁之间的年轻人通过半结构化访谈参与了这项研究。定性研究结果表明，这些地区年轻人的内部迁移决定主要是情感性的。我们展示了身体如何受到地方特殊性的影响——包括物质性以及与人类和非人类的关系——这些特殊性有助于连接或统一身体，唤起包容和安全感。我们讨论了场所的情感氛围如何推入和压入身体，使他们感到脱臼或受压迫，以及场所如何通过具体的差异体验将身体推出。我们研究的参与者强调了这些情感推动和拉动的困境，在这种情况下，归属感或对家园或国家的渴望必须根据地方的展开进行协商、重新考虑和重新工作。