The field of migration and ethnic studies in the European context has grown in a predominantly White context criticising the power dynamics of Global North and the South. Scholars, both White and non-White, engage in how to break the legacy of the coloniser and the colonised. Our experiences as researchers located outside of the country of “origin” (Japan), which historically and structurally belongs to the North and has acted—and continues to act—as a (neo-)coloniser, simply cannot be captured by dichotomy from the perspective of the researchers from the European and White Global North. The ambiguity and the alienation that we feel in this dichotomised discourse are seldom properly addressed. Based on academic discussions and our own personal experiences, we address layers of internalised personal experiences which cannot be explained through a simple binary of the North and South, White and Black, the coloniser and the colonised. We call for all “allies” from academics from the White majority, but also from academics of colour, to seek awareness towards intersectionality, while paying attention to how systems of privilege and oppression interacts.