Graduate Journal of Social Science, Volume 15, Issue 1 reach Lesvos they get arrested and detained with inadequate access to legal aid. Their personal needs and circumstances are ignored. They are detained for a prolonged period until they are eventually deported. As if by irony, delinquency is also linked with migrants having an “economic profile”. Thus, delinquency is frequently linked with those nationalities that are “deportable”. Most of the riots, fires and self-harm are caused by these people in a desperate attempt for their voices and problems to be heard. As Palidda observes, “some among those who have been responsible for unlawful conduct may have been victims of excessive zealousness if not abuses, harassment or even arbitrary persecutions” (Palidda, 2006, p. 10). “Everything which is black and moves is arrested” In May 2017, Sams, one of my interviewees, an Afghan refugee man who has been living on Lesvos since 2011 and for more than a decade in Greece, was arrested by the port police while he was taking a night walk around the port. Although he showed his refugee identification card to the authorities, the port police officers arrested him, detained him in a container for many hours and then released him, without any further explanation: I was just walking around the Port, and I was arrested! They detained me for several hours in a container within the port, which is at the Customs Office side. They have several containers like this in which they detain people. At some point, a port police officer came to see me and said: “You should be aware that we are looking for them [migrants]”. They are doing street patrols with cars and every time they trace refugees because refugees are visible -they look like refugees- they arrest them, detain them, and after some hours they let them go on foot. They are doing it frequently you know. They just stop refuges in the streets, and they arrest them. “Since when is it illegal to walk during the night?” Sams kept saying, frustrated by the fact that either with or without “papers”, all migrants and their “papers” are treated by the authorities with disbelief (Fassin & D’Halluin, 2005; Haas, 2017). The “culture of disbelief” is diffused within the asylum system’s procedures (Haas 2017, p. 79) and also within everyday life. This everyday racialised and intimidating treatment on behalf of the police is not a new or unusual phenomenon (Amnesty International, 2012b; Karamanidou, 2016). 17 (Unformatted version, page numbers not final)