This chapterexamines whether and how sudden and unexpected shocks at the micro level, meso level, and macro level trigger disenchantment by depriving ex-immigrants of feeling sufficiently ontologically grounded, secure, and stable in their pursuit of mobility within host societies. Micro-level shocks like relationship break-ups or a friend or family member suddenly becoming seriously ill or dying and often do lead to immigrants giving up. Macro-shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic induced so much suffering across the entire population and therefore substantially reduces an immigrants’ networks of social support from anyone who could help them cope with a loss of ontological security. A meso-level shock designed to drive away migrants – the spike of violent physical and verbal hate crimes against immigrants of East Asian origin in Western societies since 2020 that demanded that they go back to their country of origin – paradoxically led them to acculturate into a migrant-destination society more rapidly and therefore did not lead to disenchantment with immigration.