This paper emerges out of our collaborative interdisciplinary project on “Tehranto” in Toronto, a city with the second largest diasporic Iranian population after Los Angeles. Approaching this subject from the disciplines of English Studies and Human Geography, our project will look at the ways in which “home” is constructed, challenged, and experienced by mapping the development of Tehranto over the past 40 plus years of Iranian immigration to the city. Through the lens of feminist geography and affect theories, we will explore the ways in which Tehranto, as both a geographical space as well as an idea, offers the fantasy of a “return” “home.” This fantasy is complicated by the fact that the diasporic’s imagined return is, in some cases, to a nostalgic reimagining of pre-Islamic Persia, or an idealized pre-1979 monarchical period. Further, for many second and third generation Iranians who were born and raised in Toronto, the idea of Iran as the site of an originary “home” is mediated through the stories and memories of their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. In addition, the recent protests in response to the death of Mahsa Amini and the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement have revealed the diversity of the Iranian population in Toronto, their ability to make themselves visible at the urban scale and to use the city as a space for their political and social claims. The research questions with which we approach our study include: How are Tehrantonians shaping their personal narratives of immigration, of home, and of belonging in relation to Iran and Toronto? How have the different waves of immigration from the early 1980s to the present time helped shape the development of Tehranto as a conceptual space embedded within an emotional geography of places and circuits of exchange in the city of Toronto? In what ways do the successive waves of immigrants to this city imagine their relationship to Tehran, to Toronto, and to each other? Our presentation draws upon a series of observations in the various places of sociability of Iranians in Toronto as well as interviews conducted with members of the diaspora. We will also reflects on our respective different personal lived experiences in this city.