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This paper studies the interactions between mobility and rootedness in the urban trajectories of members of neighbourhood organisations in the outskirts of Rosario and Montevideo. Belonging to such organisations involves an eminently spatial dimension, which is all the more obvious in the case of community organisations. However, the registers and spatial dimensions of these organisations go well beyond the limits of the neighbourhood. Participation in these organisations generates constant and interdependent movements to and from the neighbourhood. Rootedness, here, is directly linked to habits of mobility throughout the city. Deep rootedness does not necessarily involve a phenomenon of withdrawal, but it can also be instrumental in generating greater mobility. Likewise, mobility can strengthen people’s inclusion in their territory. Mobility and rootedness can indeed be entirely interdependent in which case territorial belonging is circulatory, existing only through and by comings and goings between the neighbourhood and elsewhere.