DRAFT OUTLINE FINAL PAPER PROPOSAL (temporary)

HOW BEING A FOREIGNER SHAPES ONE'S IDENTITY and ONE'S NOTION OF HOME

“In a sense, it is the coming back, the return, 
which gives meaning to the going forth. 
For we really don’t know where we’ve been until we come back to where we were.
Only, where we were may not be as it was 
because of who we’ve become, 
which, after all, 
is why we left.”

I *VIDEO INTERVIEWS*

II *WHERE IS HOME?*

After some years abroad, it can happen that the concept of home becomes blurred, or acquires multiple meanings.

Before asking where is home, it may be the case to ask "what is home for me?" 

* Sarah Ahmed --- Home and away 
* Craig Storti -- The Art of Coming Home

III *BELONGING*

*Possible resources*

Elif Shafak- The Saint of Incipient Insanities

Elif Shafak - Interview "Migrations"

Can Candan - Duvarlar

Many are those youngsters who have become foreigners for a choice. Say they enrolled to a university to acquire an education abroad. Say they found a job far from their home countries. Time goes by. Some adapt, some do not. 
Where do these people, after years abroad, belong?
Do they belong to their places of nationality or do they belong to the place where they moved to? Or to both? Or to an entity between them? Or to the world? Possible places of belonging:

III.1 Neither here or there: trapped in the space in-between 

<<Burda zaten yabancılık çekiyorsun, kötü olan Türkiye’ye gidiyorsun orda da yabancılık çekiyorsun. Hani şimdi nereye gidelim Marsa mı?>> C-It 

III.2 The concept of third-space (a rich, unique multifaceted identity )

(Amin Maalouf)

III.3 The "community of strangers" 
<<I don't belong to a country, I belong to people who share my values>>

IV *COMMENT ON THE VIDEO INTERVIEWS*

aka what I found out.