Based on a qualitative study on migrants of Somali origin who have settled in Europe for at
least a decade this open access book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the idea of
mobility both empirically and theoretically. It draws a comprehensive typology of the varied
post-migration mobility practices developed by these migrants from their country of residence
after having settled there. It argues that cross-border mobility may under certain conditions
become a form of capital that can be employed to pursue advantages in transnational social
fields. Anchored in rich empirical data the book constitutes an innovative and successful
attempt at theoretically linking the emerging field of mobilities studies with studies of
migration transnationalism and integration. It emphasises how the ability to be mobile may
become a significant marker of social differentiation alongside other social hierarchies. The
mobility capital accumulated by some migrants is the cornerstone of strategies intended to
negotiate inconsistent social positions in transnational social fields challenging sedentarist
and state-centred visions of social inequality. The migrants in the study are able to diversify
the geographic and social fields in which they accumulate and circulate resources and to
benefit from this circulation by reinvesting them where they can best be valorised.The study
sheds a different light on migrants who are often considered passive or problematic migrants
refugees in Europe and demonstrates that mobility capital is not the prerogative of highly
qualified elites: less privileged migrants also circulate in a globalised world benefiting
from being embedded in transnational social fields and from mobility practices over which they
have gained some control.