Immigrants have long faced a difficult question, even if rarely stated out loud: are you “people like us”? The “us” in this case is taken-for-granted, understood through terms like “majority society,” “mainstream society,” and “host society.” Acknowledging that some immigrants are “people like us,” means that others are “not like us,” resulting in stigmatization, discrimination, and even racism. As Kenan Malik, a columnist for the Guardian’s Observer, explains: “The boundaries of those who are ‘like us,’ of those who are European, of even those who are considered ‘white,’ are not fixed but shift according to political and social need. And those ever-changing boundaries are defined as much by those deemed to be not like us as by those whom we acknowledge are.” 1 The study of migration has largely been a story that privileges the perspectives of the “us” in destination societies. In this project, we “reverse” the perspective, making immigrants our sociological “mainstream.” To explore the perspectives of immigrants living in the city of Brno (Czechia), we will conduct qualitative interviews with a sample of 50-60 adults who have come to Czechia from one of the following countries or cultural-geographical regions: (1) Slovakia, (2) Ukraine, (3) Vietnam, (4) Middle East, (5) Africa. To analyze the data, we employ cultural sociological, interpretive methods. We are interested in the ways in which immigrants engage in symbolic boundary work when imagining what “people like us” means to them.