Dimensionalities of exile: First-person accounts of belonging/alienation experiences wrought by emigration from Russia

This paper, using autoethnography, re-problematizes the definition of exile as a moral and political process, and addresses the complexity of the classification of those who have migrated or been exiled from Russia due to the full-scale war in Ukraine. The main argument focuses on the impossibility of going back home and the construction of the relational and reversible dynamics of belonging and alienation derived from personal notes and diaries collected by the five authors. Distinct experiences are presented as testimonies illuminating political and personal events occurring after February 2022 to date.