Thinking from the history of emptying, the possibility of disappearance of that which currently exists in ways that we can and cannot imagine injects an entirely different level of urgency to contemporary politics, conceptual practices, and collective narratives. In an era of mass expulsion and submerged islands, will groups of people who desire to be linked be able to act politically through movement, imagination, and memory rather than through state formation, national borders, and fixed settlements? Will being a “native foreigner” become the norm as more people spend time in different locations, making them both natives and foreigners everywhere? (García Canclini 2017). How will Puerto Ricans “stay afloat,”—whether in San Juan, Kissimmee, or the Bronx, or across greatly transformed and novel waterland-scapes?