This text is intended to provide a report on the refuges universe in Rio de Janeiro by analyzing social, economic and cultural aspects which permeate the motion and permanence of this population. It approaches questions concerning the human rights, arguing at the same time its own existence, sometimes abstract, which makes difficult the social insertion of the refugees and increases the rupture between this social group and the state-nation. There was an attempt to understand the places occupied by the refugees in this new territoriality where the end of commercial and economic limitations and the free flow of capital is encouraged rather of the flow of human life.