The article explores, through a life history, how the management of displacement ceased to be a temporary and transitory situation to become an “occupation” and a process of subjective transformation within the urban dynamics of Bogotá. For that purpose, it analyzes the story of Teresa, an activist woman who has been displaced for a decade, which shows the tension between institutional discursive apparatus, the fight for recognition and the possibilities of agency. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X55