In this roundtable, members of the ERC Research Group, “Tales of the Disaporic Ordinary” discuss the reparative potentials of return. Diasporic life often engages ideas of return, driven by a simultaneous pull towards belonging and the desire to escape from the circumstances that prevent it. But temporary forms of belonging also produce provisional forms of return—at the Späti, the Thaipark, in the marginal, the afterhours, the wider family or chosen networks, but also in the neighborhood, at work, etc. These returns create their own kinds of fleeting or recurring intimacies – traces of queerness and repair that pervade diasporic reality.

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