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This paper will consider experiences of dis-location, foreignness, and otherness that inscribe themselves in the individual’s psyche and affect inner and outer sense of emotional home. While visiting clinical encounters of analytic pairs of immigrants, the author discusses the impact of unconscious intergenerational transmission, displaced social signification, and trauma in inner experiences of not-belonging. Through a process of narrativization ignited by dynamics of recognition, witnessing, and similarity, the author claims that one can find a necessary emotional anchoring that allows for recovering and repairing foreigner’s fleeting sense of belonging in the world-with-others.