This thesis investigates the spaces of political asylum across past and present, with the intention of provoking new definitions of its spatial manifestation. It begins by reconstructing an archaeology of asylum, tracing its forms from antiquity to the late 20th century. This is not a linear history but an exploration of the conditions that allowed asylum to appear, and reappear, as a spatial practice. Alongside this historical narrative, the concept of the signature is introduced as a way to follow recurring patterns and logics across time and space, patterns that reveal asylum’s presence even beyond the dominant Western narratives shaping the research.