An Autoethnographic Account of Being-at-Home: At the Intersection of Queerness, Belonging, and Migration

It focuses on the similarities-differences and challenges-opportunities between living as a “white” queer man in Turkey and living as a queer “person of colour” who had to migrate to Germany. After presenting the conditions and dichotomies of defining oneself as “in exile” through an autobiographical narrative, it presents the reality of not belonging, precarious conditions and the omnipresent reality of being “the other”. It asks: How do we define being in exile regarding the different conditions different people experience? How do I relate my experiences to this exile situation? How do we explain the feeling of rootlessness and not feeling at home because of one’s political position, sexual orientation, gender, social class, or ethnicity, even when one is in their native country?