Vous consultezGéopolitiques mahoraise et réunionnaise : de la crise actuelle à un état des lieux régional

Geopolitics of Mayotte and Reunion Islands : from the current crisis to taking stock of the regional situation.
The current protest against the “high cost of living” on Reunion Island is the repercussion of the social uprising in October 2011 on Mayotte Island during more than six weeks and moreover the consequence of the social violent movements within the French Caribbean Islands in 2009. Beyond the dualistic mass pictures – that we have to shun in this matter – between French metropolitans, inhabitants from the different islands of the Comoros with cultures, former alliances and specific histories, Mahorais and Asiatic or Arabic populations, the Mayotte and Reunion Islands geopolitical parameters are more and more mixed up. Legal and illegal migrations between the African continent, the Comoros, Mayotte and Reunion Islands contain the roots of community rivalries in this social and economic Eldorado. These transfers of people are the result of their high level of poverty. And some political or religious leaders could use this poverty to improve their local or regional power, especially in this year of important polls.