Involving dynamics of both synergy and friction, cultural encounters can be accompanied by profound reconfigurations at social and political levels, resulting in war, conflict, and segregation as well as in new forms of coexistence and social relationships. In this chapter we aim to analyse such dynamics of conflict and cohabitation between the (im)migrant ‘national majority’ community of ethnic Bengalis and local ethnic minorities in the context of Chittagong Hills Tracts of Bangladesh. Here, we focus on individual stories of inter-ethnic/racial conjugality between the Bengali Muslim migrants and members of local indigenous communities in the Hills. We argue that personal stories of (im)material sacrifice and sufferings both in the private and public spheres of individuals involved in inter-ethnic/racial (heterosexual) marriages indicate neither assimilation nor abandonment of belongings. Rather, they depict the capacity of individuals to navigate the volatile classed-, gendered-, sexualised- and racist- political situations to negotiate and secure membership within the constellations of different collective boundednesses. We also argue that understanding these individuals’ stories is important in moving beyond the popular simplistic lens that reduces all human actions and responses to dichotomous and antagonistic encounters of two inwardly homogenous and outwardly oppositional categories (e.g. Hill-peoples vs. Bengali migrants).