Poststructuralist approaches are often prevalent in border regime and critical migration and refugee studies when questions of illegalisation and de/normalization of migration and refugee-ness are discussed. The paper introduces refugee ethics from a poststructuralist perspective that understands migration as a phenomenon produced via discursive operations. It is stabilised by performative repetitions and manifests in legal regulations. Migration thus comprises a tightly knit network of speech acts, tacit performances, semantics, affects, materialities and architectures that make up the international migration regime. The paper discusses refugee agency from a white, European feminist academic position and how it is rendered im/possible in the contemporary migration regime. It concentrates on an analysis of the bio- and necropolitical production of oppression via migration politics and shows how, in reference to Autonomy of Migration, people on the move rework migratory routes and political scripts to challenge contemporary hegemonies concerning migration.