The aim of the proposed session is to discuss the question of being mobile or immobile in left behind areas from different perspectives. We focus on the municipal/regional dimension of left-behindness and concentrate on the wide variety of forms of (im)mobility, i.e. temporary, permanent and circular, commuting, digital mobility etc. How far is (im)mobility in that sense part of an individual coping strategy in left behind areas and, thus, a step to a problem solution for stayers and movers and, not least the community or region as a whole? We welcome empirically as well as theoretically informed contributions from scholars of all fields of (im)mobility/migration studies.