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For diasporic Pacific Islanders, journeys ‘back to home’ islands bring different consequences and have varied impacts upon identity and sense of belonging and ‘home’. The purpose of these journeys plays a significant role; within this article, I compare the influence of ‘homecoming’ (specifically designed trips with cultural reconnection as a major impetus) and ‘non-homecoming’ (e.g. holidays, weddings, birthdays etc.) trips. As people’s identities in ‘home’ islands are scrutinised, negotiated and 1 All informants are provided with aliases in order to preserve their anonymity.. MoBILITIEs of RETURN 124 contested, two things happen: the boundary between socially defined and self-defined identity becomes increasingly marked; and people’s sense of belonging, their idea of ‘home’— both in the Pacific Islands and in the diaspora—fluctuates, morphs and/or solidifies. Indeed, identity, home and belonging are highly personalised concepts, shaped in the nexus between experience and expectation. Further, identity becomes defined through a complementary duality of categories, oscillating between a fixed construction of ethnicity/‘blood’ and a more interpretable idea of behaviour/performance. This is a dichotomy which I have termed ‘being’ versus ‘doing’, in which both elements must be present in order to establish an ‘authentic’, almost indisputable Pacific Islander identity.

(Be)Longings: Diasporic Pacific Islanders and the meaning of home