This article discusses the Moroccan-Dutch literary writings and how it reflect a developing transnational cosmopolitanism that criticizes the unequal power relationship between the north and south. On the one hand, Benali’s fiction focuses the reader's attention on the social reality of the immigrants and on the global issues such as the capitalist greed for huge profits and the concomitant unscrupulous support of dictatorships and corruption, rather than dwelling on concerns of culture and identification. On the other hand, Bouazza is thought to have more concern with hybridizing his stances and questioning the politicized and institutionalized distinction between the self and the immigrant. the contention is that Hafid Bouazza enlarges the scope of Dutch identity to include outsiders who enrich its history of tolerance and openness to other cultures and geographies. ... : Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies, Vol. 1 No. 3-4 (2020): Routes and Roots: Migration across Africa and the Mediterranean ...