This article deals with the interdependencies of racism and ableism. It is based on an ethnographic research with transnational migrants who have got the subject status of “traumatized asylum seeker”. After deploying a theoretical framework of racism and ableism this article shows how boundary drawings and ‘selective inclusions’ concerning the access to secure resident status and work are taking place in the name of economic exploitability. But it might serve a poor picture analyzing exclusively subjects as victims or as autonomous actors. Racism and ableism are contested fields and thus a necessary shift of analytical perspectives is proposed. The concept of assemblage (agencement) and the crucial role of affects in creating supportive collectivities and lines of flight are discussed and applied. In this analytical view molecular-political struggles on the level of everyday life are emerging in order to change conditions of life. Affective virtuosity, connectivity and complicity are occurring.