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Barker. Judith ."Home Alone: The Effects ofOutmigration on Niuean Elders' Living Arrangements"Hess. James"MIgration. Networks. Resources. and Households: The Formation ofa MarshalleseCommunity in Orange County"Nero. Karen"Workers and Servants: The Internationalization of PaIauan Households"Nine papers were presented in an all-day session beginning at 10:30 to avoid conflictswith other sessions. Cluny MacPherson. Keny James. Tony Hooper. Alan Ward. GrantMcCall. Don Rubenstein. CraIg Severance and many others joined us. allowing us tobenefit from their long-term Pacific migration perspectives. Others (Lany Goren1lo andMike Levin. Patrick O'Brien) ofthe original symposium were not able to attend. butoffered papeIS.The papeIS in this session all dealt with migrations across relatively open borders. Incontrast with earlier·studies ofex:Ues and forced migrations. most ofthe populationmovements studied were voluntaIy (although economic and political factors ofcoursemediate such decisions). We benefited from several longitudinal studies. espectallyHoward's restudy ofRotuman migrants. and Marshall's long-term look at Namolukmigrants. These logltudlnal studies permit the analysis ofgenerational di1ferences inissues ofethnic identity ~d participation. and return mJgration.We began with a series ofpapers (Franco. Yamamoto. Altrocchi) studying regionalsystems ofmtgration. such as the Samoan system which spans New Zealand/Australia.the two Samoas. Hawall. and California. raising Issues ofremittances and other forms oftransfers between communities. and the generational effect on participation. Yamamotodiscussed.the differential effects ofmalaga and remittances on home communities.Altroc:cchi's paper on Cook Islanders in three communities sparked a lively dJscussion onthe ways in which self-identity is contextualized.After lunch we took a closer look on. the effects ofoutmJgration on the homecommunities. assessing the impacts on women in Chuuk (Flinn). and on the elders inNiue (Barker). Marshall's restudy ofNamoluk discovered the return ofmany ofthe earlieroutmigrants. and a surprise return to pre-ex1sitng preferential marriage pattems.Hess presented prelimenmy results ofan on-goingstudy ofthe new Marsha1lesecommunity in Callfornia, a perhaps more "official" overseas community - theMarshallese govemment has just opened a Consulate in Orange County. Hesspresented an apparently anomalous finding ofremittances 110wing from the home to themtgrant community. explained part1ally by the hJgh. proportion ofstudents living in thecommunity abroad and the high level ofU.S. funding flowing into some Marshallesehouseholds. .Nero presented a paper on the phenomenon ofthe new Asian workers moving IntoPacific island communities and their effects on Whost" communities. The new immigrantsare fiJl1ng both sldlled and unskilled labor positions vacated as islanders move intopositions in the relatively stronger economies oftheir metropolitain links. This papersudying "replacement" labor parallels one given lastyear by Va'a on Western/AmericanSamoa. however in the latter the replacement laborers are cbawn from the same culturalgroup. .There Is no plan to create an edited volume. since the topics ranged widely, but severalpapers are being submitted to regionaljournaJs which have spec1allzed in mJgratlon .topics, and the restudies will be submitted to theJournal which published the originalstudy. .8