This paper discusses the construction of personal geographies of (im)mobility among Romanian older migrants in Switzerland and those who moved back to Romania after having lived in Switzerland. The analysis draws on 32 biographical narrative interviews with Romanian migrants aged 57 and older. This is a heterogeneous population consisting of former political refugees, family migrants, and return migrants. The paper reconstructs the strategies refugees used to maintain ties to their homeland during the communist regime, when it was difficult to physically return home, and during the first attempts to re-establish concrete ties after the fall of the dictatorship.Since then older Romanians have developed a variety of personal geographies of (im) mobility: cutting ties to Romania, tourism, back-and-forth trips, attempted, and concrete return. The paper's contributions derive from applying a life course perspective to the study of migration, focusing on little studied groups and on concrete return behaviour and not just intentions. K E Y W O R D S former refugees, mobility, older migrants, return migration, Romania, Switzerland, transnationalism 1 | INTRODUCTION People's movements are very complex, and although the literature distinguishes between migration, settlement, return, and transnationalism,there are many more movements between these that are harder to capture in categories. People are sometimes forced to leave a country, and structural factors can impede them from returning for a period of time; however, they adopt strategies to compensate for the impossibility of a physical return. Some people also try to return and cannot integrate back in their country of origin, whereas others imagine themselves back in their country of origin, and some go to their country of birth only as tourists. Motivated by this diversity of mobilities, the aim of this paper is to understand the way older migrants reflect and construct their personal geographies of mobility and immobility. The paper proposes the concept of personal geography in order to capture the variety of types of mobilities and immobilities among older migrants; the symbolic mobility; the places attached to these mobilities: hometown, host-town, touristic attractions, capital city, and so on; and the emotions in relation to places and movement: intentions, rejection, and longing, among others. The process through which these geographies of mobilities come about is approached in a life course perspective.Though migration and mobilities research are increasing fields of study, we know little about migrants' geography of mobility and immobility as follows: trips to their home country, the places they visit, attempted and failed return, and the choice of voluntary immobility. This paper aims to go beyond the dyad of home and host country (Ciobanu, 2015) and by studying the geographies of mobility and immobility, seeks to identify the factors shaping them and the decision processes behind them. Regarding the study population, the literature points to a series of grou...