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For marginalized people, their sense of belonging is always haunted since they have been historically excluded from an original home-space and many are believed to lack material possession, especially of their own bodies. Through the methodology of autoethnography, I probe the way themes of home and body are interconnected through personal lived experience and narrative practices. This interdisciplinary project has two main objectives, one disciplinary and the other methodological. The first is to draw attention to autoethnography as an innovative approach for studying issues of home/body, especially to disciplinary fields that typically investigate these issues such as geography, communications, education, and diaspora studies, but which tend to ignore the \"\"affective\"\" elements of belonging over the material. The second is methodological insofar as my critical work is in conversation with diverse intellectual formations such as queer theory, women of color and indigenous feminisms, and ethnic studies. Autoethnography has been used before to study subjugated or scattered histories but deployed in heteronormative fashion that merely re-centers bodily integrity and an ancestral located sense of home. I bring out the disparate, contradictory, and virtual nature of this body and home through narrative constructions that are fluid and indeterminate. 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For marginalized people, their sense of belonging is always haunted since they have been historically excluded from an original home-space and many are believed to lack material possession, especially of their own bodies. Through the methodology of autoethnography, I probe the way themes of home and body are interconnected through personal lived experience and narrative practices. This interdisciplinary project has two main objectives, one disciplinary and the other methodological. The first is to draw attention to autoethnography as an innovative approach for studying issues of home/body, especially to disciplinary fields that typically investigate these issues such as geography, communications, education, and diaspora studies, but which tend to ignore the ""affective"" elements of belonging over the material. 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