Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork with displaced Shan living along the Thai–Burma border, this study focuses on the translocal lived spaces that the Shan people have created in accounting for the multiplicity of voluntary or forced migration experiences and uncovering a very different picture of ‘home’ during displacement. It argues that ‘homes’ on the move function as nodes in wider networks of convergence and mobilization, which link internally displaced person (IDP) camps to translocal networks, connecting with migrant communities and refugee camps across the border. Therefore, a ‘home territory’ is constructed through the activation of networks that reorient geographical, political and cultural boundaries in the midst of protracted insecurities and uncertainties. It not only captures changing geographical imaginaries and the fluidity of places across Asian borderlands, but also subverts the ‘national territory’ of a state-centred perspective.