Eastern Europe and Eurasia have increasingly figured in the conversation around post- and decolonial thought and developed their own sub-strands therein. However, there are also reservations about the relevance of these contexts amid calls not to understand decolonization as a metaphor and to remain conscious of the settler colonial history of this idea. This seminar seeks to elaborate this problematic and to facilitate a conversation that helps to capture the place and meaning of Eastern Europe and Eurasia within decolonial thought. It starts off by conceptualising the respective implications of settler colonialism and other forms of economic, cultural, and epistemic colonialism and imperialism for a decolonial perspective. It then introduces participants to cooperative research projects from across Eurasia to discuss whether and how community and migrant activism can be situated within or vis-a-vis decoloniality. Thus, the research with urban marginal communities in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and Bulgarian and Turkish-origin migrants in West German (post-) industrial hubs will reveal how the conditions of these groups, but also their ways of resisting their subjugation and fighting for a better life, are entangled with both historical and present-day formations of imperial dominance, economic exploitation and geopolitical hegemony.