Against the background of refugee allocation and of the legal restrictions on refugee ›secondary‹ movements, this paper engages the spatiality of asylum in ›Europe‹ and offers a critical geographic perspective on the developments of the Dublin Regulation. By looking at the intersections of asylum and Schengen regulations and at their lived consequences for the lives of mobile refugees, the article sheds light on how the EU-ropean asylum regime produces new subjects of power in terms of legal identities – recognised refugees, rejected asylum seekers, Dublin cases, among others – while also producing space, in the form of geographies of transit and asylum, and time, through channelling, disrupting, decelerating or speeding up circulation. In showing the fragmented processes of (im)mobility, which are inherent to the spatio-temporal (and legal) process of ›becoming a refugee‹ in today’s Europe, the paper critically engages migration management’s categorisations such as ›transit‹, ›secondary mobility‹, ›asylum seeker‹ and ›recognised refugee‹.