Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe

European migration scholars are increasingly interested in people's onward migrations and secondary movements. This paper takes a critical look at the conceptual underpinnings of this subfield by indicating how lexicon frames migratory processes as staged process, involving South–North directionality hinting gradual progress for migrants question. “grand narrative” is anchored reproduced EU’s overarching policy frameworks. Based on an ethnographic project that followed African trajectories inside Europe, I present some dynamic im/mobility can be considered counter narratives migration. The detailed outlining these show mobility itself shifting ground without one major vector directing These result discussion migranticization mobility. More specifically, plea research approaches free movements from prepossessed directions.