Well, I'm discovering that 'day stuff', attempt at making a kind of 'Atlas Wikipedia'?
Oh and, to try to answer the few questions here, about Mayotte, yeah, transfer, moreover it became the 101st French département through a referendum in 2009, which means that it has the same status thus same rights than any other French metropolitan dpt.
And when you know that in France that are dpt councils that are in charge of social subsidies that matters still more I guess.
Iirc the unemployment rate there is about 40%, but, now, they can have what any French citizen above 25 can have, RSA.
And since it's the same for every citizen, then single person from Mayotte above 25 can at least have about 450€ per month, more if kids. Which I guess would be quite high compared to surrrounding countries.
So there is this and what any French dpt can receive as average subsidies from the national state that can make Mayotte looking attractive, even if by comparison to other French dpts it would look like, and maybe by far enough, the shantiest one, at least by 'classical development criteria'.
And, when it comes to Comores immigration outhere, the big thing for years now, even before the dpt, is about a lot of Comorean pregnant women that clandestinaly try to reach Mayotte/'France' in order to...hop...pop a new French citizen ^^...thanks to France's soil right. Which is....obviously....more and more protested, it's (soil right as a whole, not only in Mayotte) a big FN topic for years.
I don't remind exactly but maybe the fact to be the mother of a French citizen could maybe even give you the right to stay. In case there is a clear law about that.
There has been so much backward mess into those questions last years, countless witnessing of people who had an hard time to remake a simple ID only because they had one foreign grand parents or something, even some famous people.
Ah, and, lol, Bob Denard, what a name, all said by that only. A long time I hadn't heard about him, I don't remind the whole story exactly, and I don't know if anybody knows it but yeah, would have been one more France's enjoyment of neo-colonialism.
Personally, I often tended to think it would have been the best for the whole Comores to follow Mayotte/DOM (overseas dpt) way but some other stakes were at work then, people still believed in Westerners fairy tales, thus why they wanted to fire them.
There is a big enough Comorean 'community' in Marseille nowadays, which gave a famous rapper, Soprano:
I discovered him through a beautiful but not happy song, about suicide ^^, he notably speaks about his Comorean origins in it:
Puisqu'il faut vivreI come from a slave port
My skin has oil color and colons knows it
I'm Comorean and proud to be.Later he adds in it:
I dedicate it to all African youthsFind it worth underlining.
But then he made mainly 'conscient/fun rap/pop' stuffs, it's a kind of Pharell Williams personality, maybe more nervous and provoking but hey what do you think? Marseeeeeilleeeee ^^.
Beware it's an other ambiance ^^ :
CosmoFresh princeAh well, he sometimes tries to be back to serious too (makes me think to Stromae in that one):
Le clown
