My research focuses on oceanic migrations in archipelagoes of the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. Rooted in comparative literary practices, my work employs multilingual, multispecies and decolonial frameworks to ask: How are the entwined histories of the Middle Passage, the kala pani journey and contemporary clandestine crossings represented in fiction and poetry? How do narratives simultaneously engage with the ecological, cultural and historical dimensions of the ocean? lHow can literature, and the humanities in general, offer us new creative and critical lenses to engage with migration?