The migrant and the refugee have emerged as defining figures of our time, shaped by intersecting forces of displacement, neoliberal economy, and the crisis of political recognition. This chapter explores how these figures are produced and governed within overlapping legal, economic, and humanitarian regimes that rely on their labour while denying them full political subjectivity. Through the lens of subjectivation, biopolitics, and the autonomy of migration, it reflects on how migrants and refugees are rendered visible in the domain of informal labour and humanitarian care but remain absent from the formal political sphere. They are absorbed into global economic processes as mobile and precarious labour, yet remain excluded from the institutional frameworks that confer political rights and recognition. The chapter demonstrates how moments of crisis—such as the pandemic or war—briefly render these populations politically legible, only to be returned to regimes of surveillanceSurveillance, discipline, and disposability. Migration unsettles conventional boundaries of legality, nationhood, and governance, revealing the contradictions within global capitalism. Rather than stable identities, the migrant and the refugee become spectral figures who expose the fault lines between economic dependence and political exclusion, care and control, and resilience and rightlessness.