To say that migration entails new forms of political emergence amounts to the proposition that migration today constitutes a ‘hypothesis’ of a coming society, where sovereignty does not translate into exclusion. Over the past two-three decades, the human sciences, helped by art and literature, have begun to explore this hypothesis. This is the context of several recent interrogations by artistic practices and aesthetic works of notions such as citizenship, borders, sovereignty, statehood and community. In this context, we can recognize migration, including the colonial legacies from which it derives and the agency that it exercises, as a political process constitutive of our future. At the core of such analyses is the process whereby the aesthetic presentation transforms political negativity, and objective historical constraints, into agency, a site of becoming.