This paper centers on Iranian and Kurdish LGBTQ refugee accounts to analyze the carceral logics and structures that follow displaced populations across multiple points in their migration journeys. Based on ethnographic research and activist community engagements in Turkey (2014-2020) and Canada (2022-2023), I examine how racialized queer and trans refugees navigate ever-growing policing, securitization and surveillance technologies, criminalization, detention, and deportation in their everyday lives. Exploring carcerality in these seemingly separate geographies helps me to offer a more expansive notion of the carceral, which transgresses nation-state borders and is not necessarily contained in physical spaces like prisons, detention centers, and refugee camps. In the first half of my talk, I focus on ‘refugee waiting’ in Turkey, where refugees from neighboring countries spend many years waiting for refugee resettlement in another country in the Global North. By exploring the spatial, temporal, and affective production of carcerality in Turkey, I discuss how the constant threat of detention and deportation serves to govern refugees’ bodies, mobilities, and labor. In the second half, I discuss how refugees continue to face carceral power structures after being resettled in Canada, where they are assumed to have reached safety and freedom. By following the story of a politically-engaged trans-identified refugee, I discuss how refugees are disproportionally subjected to surveillance technologies and detention and deportation regimes not only due to their non-normative genders and sexualities (LGBTQ+) and precarious legal status (refugee) but also because of their fight against ongoing colonial violence in Canada, which includes their involvement in local political groups, such as de-fund the police and land-back collectives, as well as their rejection of citizenship, itself a colonial enterprise. Tracing this carceral continuum, I discuss 1) how carcerality uses similar colonial, racialized, and patriarchal logics to systematically target racialized and gendered across multiple time-spaces, and 2) how precarious legal status, gender non-normativity, and radical political praxis construct refugees as threatening and criminalized figures who need to be controlled, disciplined, and demobilized through carceral containment and punishment mechanisms.