I received the CLACLS Summer Research Travel Fellowship to do preliminary field research in a historic region of migration in Zacatecas, Mexico. While Mexican state officials are reporting a bettering situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, academic institutions, archives, and libraries remain closed, and travel is highly discouraged. I had to postpone my travel plans to Zacatecas but am in touch with a scholar from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ) specialized in migration and am planning to visit the UAZ as soon as they reopen. My research focuses on “staying-put” in a context of migration, and this pandemic has brought to the fore the intimate connection between (im)mobility and inequality on a different scale and context. I believe ethnographic fieldwork allows us to access a kind of knowledge to better understand how such inequalities play out and are experienced in daily life, and I intend to conduct interviews as well as participant observation in Zacatecas as soon as I can be sure to not put anyone at risk. PPE and social distancing, as well as open air locations, will have to become part of an unaccustomed way of talking with people during this time, but I cannot imagine conducting anthropological research without doing so.