Chapter 9 follows the participants in their journey of learning to be refugees in the receiving community of Gaziantep, Türkiye. Through the gaze of the receiving community and the conditions that they faced, refugees experienced what it is to become a refugee. By crossing the physical border between Syria and Türkiye, their self-identity is also forced to go through a mental portal between being Syrian citizens and becoming a refugee. In order to locate their experiences, Chapter 9 focuses on leaving home and transitioning from home to the receiving community and existing under the gaze of the new community and the state. The meanings of “becoming” refugees are investigated through the experiences at the micro, meso, and macro levels by taking into account the structure of the receiving community. The chapter shows how refugees remarkably distinguish between prejudice and discrimination at the micro level, individual interaction, and discrimination at the meso level within formal organizations, particularly official institutions of the receiving state. Attitudes towards and interaction with the Turkish language in everyday life and the selection of children’s education language are analyzed as they were central to how identities evolved. Through language and education, cultural belonging became spheres of staying close to the Syrian past or finding new expressions for a different future that did not include Syria.