The dead are fed first and guests are fed on arrival, and both obligations have become logistically complicated by migration. Roughly a million and a half Haitians live outside Haiti, and their dead are generally buried at home. Obligations are discharged at a distance: money is sent specifically for a ceremony, relatives at home perform it, video is sent back, and in some cases the person flies home for it. Remittances to Haiti are an enormous share of national income and a portion of them is explicitly religious spending. The domestic obligations travel better — a candle and a glass of water work in an apartment in Brooklyn — but the ceremonies that require a compound, drummers and animals do not, and this asymmetry has shaped diaspora practice, pushing it toward the household forms and toward periodic trips home.