 My main research question is actually a very simple one. What is migration? But I'm taking a particular look at this question because the case of Mayotte is a very ambiguous case. Here we speak of an island which together with the other islands of Grand-Cormor, Moilly and Anjouin forms the Cormoros Archipelago. But due to political configurations, Mayotte is officially French and part of the European Union. I'm asking the question, what is the border actually between so-called illegal migration and internal movements? Because we're speaking of a case in which people live Anjouin to Mayotte and these are just 70 kilometers. We're speaking about people who share historical ties. We're speaking about people who were divided because of political geography. And this is what takes me to my authors. In this paper I pay attention to how the authors address the situation, what kind of poetic, stylistic resources do they use to talk about this and what is, for example, the role of the French language in their writing because they are criticizing the French hegemony on the island but they stick to using French and actually even publishing in outlets which are situated in France, although the language of primary socializations is not French. Traditionally, we get to our topics by reading different genres like plays, novels, short stories, within newspapers, academic papers, book reviews and so on. But in this case, the idea of the paper was born out of my third trip to Mayotte and that was in 2015. While getting prepared to go to Mayotte, I was struck by two things. One, I wouldn't need a visa to try to fly to Mayotte and second, the local currency is the euro. So I was completely puzzled by this state of affairs. Once on the ground, I got more scandalized by the reality. For example, the difference between petit-tère and grand-tère, meaning the place on the one side you have the airport, the French army base and on the other side you have, you know, the majority of the people will then be disconnected to the airport, for example, in case of social turmoil. Since 2014, I've been going to Mayotte every year as a visiting lecturer and beyond my classes, I took the time to listen to people, to learn from witnesses of this tragedy. Back to the traditional approach, of course I did literary analysis by using a method called closed reading and what is particular, the added value of this paper is that I did two things. One is that I combined to my literary analysis aspects of critical geography and critical geography is essential in this case study. It's a discipline that highlights the connection between societies and geographies by allowing to raise annoying questions such as what happens when people's histories is falsified for political reasons. Second, I combined my literary analysis to field observation. It was very enriching to spend time on the ground. Listening to the people who have gone through this humiliating and painful experience. I have basically three key findings. The first key finding connected to the question what is migration, what is migration within the Comoros Archipelagos is that to both writers there is no migration taking place within the Comoros Archipelago. These are internal movements and that's why in the title of the paper I've put migration into brackets. Because to them, if there is anything that is illegal on the island of Mayotte then it is the Baladu visa and not the people coming from Anjouan, Moorili and Grand Comoros. The second finding has got to do with the approach, the way the authors deal with the topic. On the one hand we have Nassoula Tumani who is Malurian and French by the way who is just using satire to laugh about the whole situation because to him it's absurd to have to deal with a corpse for example and insisting on conducting an autopsy of the dead body in a Muslim context whereas the person who found the dead body was already busy trying to organize the burial ceremony. On the other hand we have Seif Ebadawi from the Grand Comoros who is so angry with the situation that his approach is what I call angry but poetic writing and there he's using the decree which is a Muslim prayer and act of remembrance that takes place 40 days after somebody has passed away. He's so angry with the situation that he even asks the questions whether the Almighty had been sleeping while this tragedy had been unfolding. The third finding has got to do with the language language and literary identity because both authors are using French although as I said in the beginning the languages of primary socializations on the islands are Oshikomore, Shindwani and so on. So the intention behind is clearly to use the French language as a weapon to fight against the very same French hegemony. This is an approach that even writers like the literary giants Chinua Chebe from Nigeria and Amadou Kuruma from Ivory Coast have used before and saying that they will use the formal colonial languages in their works but they will do so in such a way that the formal colonizers will have hard times understanding their own languages and Seif Ebadawi, the writer from the Grand Comoros says this well by saying in an interview that he's bringing disorder in the French language as a response to the disorder situation. My findings are relevant on three counts. First, this analysis brings a totally different perspective to migration studies. I always have fun whenever I give a talk about my art in Europe. I have fun asking my audience whether my art sounds familiar to them. Many people so far have confessed not to have heard of my art and even those who did hear of my art are surprised that my art is part of the European Union so I always have fun at the end saying, welcome to Africa in Europe. The second point of relevance is that this paper shows that decolonization is still a work in progress and it emphasizes the role that literature can play in this process. This paper reminds of the fact that literature can be a good therapy as this has been shown in many projects connected to the genocide in Rwanda, for example. The third point of relevance is that this paper has highlighted that literature is by nature encyclopedic. It's a discipline where other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, history, political science, geography, etc. converge. So in a sense, Roland Barth was right in saying that if you were to save only one discipline, it should be literature. This paper was only the beginning of a broader project on which I'll be working in the next couple of years. This will take place within the framework of the cluster of excellence which was awarded to the Institute of African Studies of the University of Beirut. Together with many colleagues from different disciplines we'll be working on the main, on the broad topic, African multiple reconfiguring African studies. I'm currently trying to expand the carpers because I've found that there are many more novels, collection of short stories here and there, poems, video performances, many films about the topic of migration to Beirut. So I hope to do three things. One, an inventory of these broad carpers. Two, a systematization of these carpers. And three, I hope to provide a transdisciplinary analysis of this variety of carpers. I hope to do this in a book form which will highlight the question of closeness between people of the Comoros Archipelago and by extension, interestingly, the connection between Africa and Europe.