... for Comoran clandestine migrants, thousands of whom have perished on the treacherous sea crossing since 1995. In her novel Tropique de la violence (2016), Mauritian author Nathacha Appanah inscribes the Mahoran tragedy within a global imaginary of migration. This essay explores the risks and merits...

... the lesser-known, ultraperipheral Mayotte’s Mahoran migrant crisis, Mauritian author Nathacha Appanah’s Tropique de la violence draws on a comparative reference to the Mediterranean refugee crisis, a presumably familiar case. But what are the stakes of such comparisons? asks Nikhita Obeegadoo in her...