ABSTRACT
Material presented in earlier chapters shows that-taken collectively-members of the post-World War II populace of Namoluk Atoll truly have begun to roam the globe. At least one person from the island has been to Australia, East and Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, the Caribbean, and all over the Pacific Islands, including New Zealand. The only inhabited continents not visited by chon Namoluk by the spring of 2003 were Africa and South America. But although globe-trotting has not yet become the norm for Namoluk people, travel to certain specific destinations has now become a normal part of the contemporary life of community members of all ages. These destinations
have been mentioned in earlier chapters, as waves of people have spread out from “the lagoon in the middle .” Four of these locations are highlighted below, along with a discussion of who is there, when they arrived, and what sort of life they live in their new surroundings. Chon Namoluk are on Wééné and Guam in sufficient numbers to form true migrant communities; in Hawai’i and Eureka, California, they live in clusters, and their numbers are not yet high enough to constitute actual expatriate Namoluk communities. We will see, however, that more encompassing identities than simply being a Namoluk person operate in such locales.
