ChaiStan is a place where stories of migration and its meaning are deciphered. Chai because it carries with it a deep meaning of who I am as a Pakistani, with roots in a colonial history and a desire to find my own identity within its versatility, sometimes with an aroma of cardamom and cinnamon and sometimes just plain tea bags intentionally boiled in water for a prolonged period of time. Stan because it is literally translated as place. A place, that I keep wanting to find where the immigration experience that is my own is embraced in its full complexity and layers of contradictions.