Is it useful to think about migration in terms of “pushes” and “pulls”? This project pursues this question, not through reference to the “human capital value” models developed in conventional migration studies, but through linguistic anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies, Island Studies, affect theory, and process philosophy. This interdisciplinary approach is animated by sustained ethnographic engagement with the Bugis, a Malay-speaking Muslim people famous for migrating across archipelagic Southeast Asia in search of kelebihan or “moreness.” Drawing on several years of cumulative ethnographic research among transnational Bugis migrants, this project explores how migrants pursue “moreness” not simply in the push-pull of migration per se, but in the push-pull of pengalaman — an item traditionally glossed by grammarian-lexicographers as "experience," but attended to here as “worlding.” In the process, the project seeks to re-think questions of "pushes," "pulls," and the category of "experience" itself.