ABSTRACT
The links between the three ethnographic case studies were fleshed out so as to allow for a critical analysis of mobility in Europe, with a specific focus on how and when that mobility translated into feelings, attachments or belongings to Europe, or an imagined community of Europeanness. An emphasis was put on the contrast between mobility in Europe and European mobility. Although mobility was deemed, at least since the materialisation of the mobile utopias of Schengen, as a forger of transnational identity amongst Europeans, as a trigger of European identification, or as a fundamental set of rights that could borrow a positive embrace of Europeanness, the reality is that only very specific practices of movement within Europe kindled such feelings. These arguments and findings led us to challenge assumptions about Euro-mobility. It appears that mobility in Europe was only transformed into European mobility when processes of empowerment and clear embodiments of Euro citizenship came to the fore. In that particular moment in time (between 2010 and 2012, when fieldworks were conducted), European mobility seemed to be more about producing and reproducing a high social status, about moving at a fast tempo and rhythm and about embedding oneself with high rates of motility.
