The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) between Canada and the USA has significantly increased asylum claims from Türkiye to Canada in recent years. For instance, between January 2017 and May 2023, over 8,600 Turkish citizens were granted refugee status in Canada. Drawing on six focus groups held in 2024 with female refugees from Türkiye residing in various hotels in Niagara Falls, Canada, we examine the connections between the process of incomplete citizenship (Nyamjoh 2002) and the emergence of new intimate carceral regimes through an intersectional feminist analysis. While existing literature on “refugee studies” emphasizes a singular understanding of female refugees, this paper investigates gendered migration experiences, encounters, and struggles through the lens of border/ing theories, carceral geographies, and geographies of intimacy. Based on our focus group interviews, we explore how the processes and materialities of racial capitalism and settler colonialism shape the experiences of female subjectivities in Turkiye, the USA and Canada (Bunnell et al., 2012; Heinonen, 2022; Kern, 2020; Kosch and Miles, 2021).