From colonization to postcolonialism, through the cultural encounter between Africa and Europe, immigration always comes back in literature as a social phenomenon, and thus the crossing of the border as a moment of joy, happiness, but also of pain, sorrow and sadness, during which the migrant becomes an object of negotiation, or even a political threat between the border states or countries. In this sense, migrants are bruised and humiliated in their self-esteem by seeing their rights scorned in the name of territorial sovereignty. Thus, the Mediterranean Sea as a border reveals itself to the migrant as an impassable wall at the foot of which he finds death. This aspect of the closed border, which often leads to the violation of human rights, is the focus of this literary reflection. Through the analysis of the novel Lass uns mit den Toten tanzen by the German writer Pia Klemp the narrative strategies of the immigration policy in the Mediterranean Sea will be highlighted.
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