Learning to Be Freed

This paper delves into the life stories of three unaccompanied asylum seeking youth residing at a state care shelter in Istanbul 2015 and 2016. Through its intervention, research follows an engaged anthropological approach to reveal hidden aspects youth's emotional intellectual worlds. The in-depth shared here illuminate Homi Bhabha's Third Space Theory (1994) are amplified by methodological we call affective multimodalities. As seek understand various ways youths navigate survival learning be freed from institutional categories, explore few concepts Theory: extraterrestrial territories, paradoxical worlds, afterlife-rebirth, displaced angle vision. practice collaborative radio show photography elicitations, were asked share their dreams as they encouraged realize potentials. During this co-creative approach, one even became co-author paper. ethnographic insights produced through allows us third space theory with poetical reflection words images.