At any rate it is clearly understood that the been-to has chosen, been awarded, a kind of death. A beneficial death, since cargo follows his return. Not just cargo but also importance, power, radiating influence capable of touching ergo elevating all those who in the first instance have suffered the special bereavement caused by the been-to's going away… So how close are we to Melanesian islands? How close is everybody…?

as the processes by which immigrants build social fields that link their country of origin and their country of settlement. Immigrants who build such social fields are designated “transmigrants.” Transmigrants develop and maintain multiple relations—familial, economic, social, organizational, religious, and political that span borders. Transmigrants take actions, make decisions, and feel concerns, and develop identities within social networks that connect them to two or more societies simultaneously.