In this text, we reflect on forms of subjectivity based on the discussions raised by Michel Foucault, emphasizing the effects of ties produced by the classifications about/of the subjects. We analyze some sections of discourses, collected through interviews with Portuguese teachers in contexts of German and Italian immigration, in the West of the State of Santa Catarina, in order to investigate how naming – seen as a classification – signals an affiliation to which the subject belongs and in which he/she is inscribed.