Abstract
The security treatment given to migration and to displacements in general, including refuges,is neither especial nor secondary. If criminalization appears as an extraordinary event, that only means that securitizing practices are not limited to the punishment, and are not exclusive of the institutions of repression. In fact they are spread on institutional devices, practices and speeches. Concerning migrant cases, refugees and, displaced people in general,the point is not exactly to suppress or to ban, but classify the flows, acts, subjects, and turn the bodies docile. It is the flight itself –whether the movements are volunteers or not – that becomes subject of these devices. On these terms it is necessary to analyze and qualify events in relation to the potency and its politicalimportance: the criminalization and all the repression acts, docile bodies and the capture are reactive and secondary in relation the flight itself. The flight is the first act, the preceding act, able to produce liberty, justice, and rights.
Keywords
Refuge; Security; Migration