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Diasporas' travel back to their original home country has often been regarded as one of the main strategies diasporas employ to maintain their cultural ties with home, as well as to (re)connect with their identity. Questions remain, however, as to how these cultural and emotional needs are met by diaspora populations who, for many reasons, either temporarily or permanently, are not able to travel back to their original homeland. Based on a qualitative study of a multiday domestic trip undertaken by a group of Iranian diaspora living in Dunedin, New Zealand, this article illustrates how an Iranian community in New Zealand (re)connects with their identity and culture through domestic tourism within their country of settlement. The study shows how this group utilizes their sense of being together through the cultural milieu within a trip that allows for a process of becoming in a new place. This article therefore offers alternative ways to understand identity maintenance for those in diaspora and, in so doing, challenges current dominant understandings of "diaspora tourism," which tend to limit ideas of identity within diaspora to certain forms of travel back to countries of origin.

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