This chapter focuses on Alevis and Alevism in a transnational context, exploring the factors driving international migration, its consequences for Alevis worldwide and its connection with the Alevi claim for legitimacy and recognition. Migration and diaspora serve as a lens to understand the transnational scope of the ongoing Alevi struggle for recognition, which is one of the most important unsolved problems of the republican era. Their claim emphasises equal citizenship and religious freedom that concentrated on the acknowledgement of cemevi as the Alevi worshipping place, together with the removal of compulsory Islamic education classes (that exclude Alevism) for Alevi children. Despite being the second-largest religious group in Turkey, Alevis lived for centuries under oppression, marginalisation and exclusion. These experiences have significantly influenced Alevi identity politics and motivated them to actively seek recognition and visibility, particularly in Western countries with robust religious freedom protections. Migration has transformed Alevis into a diaspora community with the freedom to openly practise their rituals. They have experienced significant community growth, which has increased their activism both nationally and transnationally and gained official recognition at various degrees. However, while such developments shifted in European countries, where Alevism has been taught in schools, the struggle for official recognition remains an unsettled issue in Turkey. The chapter discusses the struggle for recognition in Turkey and its shift with the development of transnational Alevi activism. Considering the Alevi historical context, migration and diaspora experience, and the claim for recognition together helps us understand not only the unresolved tensions and challenges within Turkey’s complex sociopolitical landscape but also the broader themes of minority and migrant rights, citizenship and transnational solidarity in an increasingly interconnected world.