Central to the notion of translocality is a holistic perspective on mobilities, movements and
flows, and the way in which these dynamics produce connectedness between different scales.
The majority of studies are primarily concerned with movements of people. This concern is
not restricted to transnational migration but also includes various forms of internal migration
as well as commuting and everyday movements both within cities and between rural and
urban areas (Hedberg and do Carmo 2012b). Many authors, however, are not concerned
with mobile actors alone. They also pay attention to those segments of the population that
are considered immobile, as they form a crucial dimension of connectedness (Brickell and
Datta 2011a; Rau 2012). For Sun (2006, p. 240), this includes paying attention to those
who “talk, speculate, and fantasize about certain places” and to those who “remember
experiences of familiar places.” Such perspectives remind us that translocal spaces are
constantly co-produced by mobile and immobile populations. The often arduous negotiation
of physical co-presence by multiply located actors regarding, for example participation
and non-participation in important social occasions, is a central aspect in what Conradson
and McKay (2007) describe as translocal subjectivities.