This paper aims to address the issue of immigration and the construction of identities of foreign populations in Florianopolis/SC. Starting at the second half of the twentieth century, focusing on the populations self-recognized as 'Arab' and other defined as Muslim. It is essential in this paper to establish close relations and distance between these terms and how they manifest themselves in the culture and social relations in the capital of Santa Catarina. Thus, the research seeks to track changes in the migration process, as conditions, justifications, origins, and religion. The characteristics are in the core of the transformation of the Arab community established in Florianopolis, and the growth of the Muslim community in recent decades, both of Arab origin and not - Arabic. Thereofre, from the analysis of displacement processes, identifying belonging senses communities, this paper will focus on the analysis of the last decades of the century, where the "refugee" element seems central to understanding the city in the contemporary.
