“We are going to our Portuguese homeland!” French Luso-descendants’ diasporic Facebook conarrations of vacation return trips to Portugal Isabelle Simões Marques and Michèle Koven Universidade Aberta & CLUNL-FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is article combines the study of online narratives as social practices and the linguistic anthropological study of imagined communities, to examine a set of non-canonical narrative practices in a Facebook group for the Portuguese diaspora in France. Instead of reports of individual members’ past experiences, these narratives function as invitations to other group members to co-tell typical, shared experiences. Specifically, we investigate how group members share vaca- tion trips to Portugal with each other in ways that produce a sense of collective and simultaneous experience. ey accomplish this through deictically-based narrative strategies that shiſt the social, spatial, and temporal perspectives of narrating and narrated frames in ways that link the following: individual I’s with collective we’s, one-time events with timeless event types, and co-presence on- line with co-presence on vacation. rough these strategies, participants connect Facebook narrations of vacations to the larger social project of diasporic longing for and return to Portugal. Keywords: narrative, Facebook, heritage tourism, diaspora, Portuguese descent, France, roots tourism, imagined community, nationalism, deictics is article combines the study of online narratives as social practices and the linguistic anthropological study of imagined communities, to examine a set of non- canonical narrative practices in a Facebook group for the Portuguese diaspora in France. We examine how group members use a set of online narrative practices, not so much to report individuals’ past experiences, but instead to invite one another Narrative Inquiry 27:2 (2017), 286–310. doi 10.1075/ni.27.2.05sim issn 1387-6740 / e-issn 1569-9935 © John Benjamins Publishing Company Requests for further information should be directed to: Michèle Koven University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Communication, 702 S. Wright M/C 456, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Email: mkoven@illinois.edu