ABSTRACT
Since the financial meltdown and the socio-economic crisis that followed, many have sung requiems for the European mobile dream. The resurgence of nationalisms, alongside the return of old essentialisms, the quarrels between north and south, and the building of fences and walls have come to challenge the ways of free mobility. Many have waged war against the utopias of Schengen and predicted the end of the freedom of movement within the EU. Perhaps the EU will need to write its very own requiem, but of a different kind. A requiem towards the future, and not the past. A requiem for the mobility of the twentieth century, towards the mobility of the twenty-first century, towards the commons-green kinetic citizen. It may now be the time to reinvent the mobile-citizen, to cling on steadily towards green mobility and mobility commons, schools of thought that have emerged to tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century. Instead of a citizen of speed and smoothness, the EU must cater for the new kinetic citizen, definitely pledging to reinvent the mobile utopias of yesteryear’s Schengen.
