International audienceThis paper analyzes speeches dealing with the migrations of the Moose people of Burkina Faso towards the Ivory Coast or to the capital city Ouagadougou, gathered from oral literature collections (songs, proverbs). Thus this corpus is enunciated in a same language, Moore, but it presents different outlooks on mobility, depending if they originate from men or women who have already migrated once or, on the contrary, from people who stayed “at the village” but are nevertheless some kind of keepers of this form of oral literature. These different forms of speeches—collected in very different contexts of enunciation, from rituals to interviews, including theatrical performances—are compared in order to examine the social re...