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Departure from East Timor and a relatively prolonged and, to a certain extent, politically motivated absence have affected the reconfiguration of the identity of some Timorese women. This reconfigured identity has incorporated memories of the past in “the homeland”, the experiences of exile and the fiction of the future as a particular eschatology of the diaspora.In this text, I am initially interested in reflecting on the theorisation of the ways in which identities and travel narratives are produced and their place in the confrontation between nationalist consensus and post-war dissent. I then discuss how these migrant and diasporic identities and discourses are constituted as sites of immobility and rupture involving women.