“I am not really emotionally ready for children, but this is on my mind on repeat: Biologically speaking, your eggs are collapsing, your eggs are collapsing.” I heard this from Dicle, a migrant lawyer in her late twenties, during our in-depth interview in central Frankfurt. I understood two years later what was puzzling me about her exact wording. What did it mean, exactly, for an egg to collapse? The way she expressed it in our native language, Turkish, was yumurtaların çöküyor. Collapsing eggs was the fitting translation, but it still seemed strange. The Turkish verb çökmek is rather literal. A building could collapse; a bridge could collapse. But how does an egg collapse? (read more...)