Well me for example I do feel like being in between (1.5) I feel as neither nor a foreigner (.) or or well I don't know (.) sometimes when I am among Austrian girls (.) then I do feel like a foreigner (.) whereas I am not a I don't know I am not a pure foreigner I was only born here but my roots are in Turkey (0.5) and that is why I only know life as it is here (.) the life here and I do not know what it's like over there that is why when I go there I feel myself somehow different because

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... e they are also well for example I do not know Turkish THAT well and so (0.5) and (0.5) well when I go there then they say that I am born there and so (.) and here when I come here then they say that I am I am well that I am Turkish (0.5) I am Turkish and so but (.) I am one but ((laughs)) I am not saying now that I am not but well I feel-I feel in between I don't know well I feel (AT-FG5-F2) 1, 2 In the short text sequence quoted above, a young Turkish woman points to problems often faced by migrants nowadays in an extremely well articulated and moving way: where do we belong? Which identity/ies do we all have? Who am I? These are issues which affect aspects of everybody's life. However, migrants experience the problem of 'not knowing where one belongs' in a much more acute way. The young girl seems not to belong anywhere anymore, neither to the country of her origin, nor to her target country. Wherever she moves, she does not (yet) belong, she has not been able to acquire a sense of either belonging or identification. She feels in between; even if she and/or her family have already been given citizenship in the target country. As repeatedly expressed in this short self-reflective quote, she just does not know. Experiences (or voices) of migrants, such as the one referred to above, must be seen in a broader European context, where migration has become 95 07IDTR_ch05(95-119) 7/12/07 11:27 AM Page 95