To go (back) and settle down in a FrenchPolynesian island : toward a new mobility paradigm ? The example of Rurutu (Austral Islands) At a time when the major territorial patterns are ruled by metropolitan logics, and characterized by the marginalization of landlocked or poorly connected places, processes of valuing margins are paradoxically emerging. These dynamics are reflected through new forms of mobility that are upsetting the classical pattern, more centripetal and determined by economic reasons. In French Polynesia, net migration of some remote islands like Rurutu in Australes archipellago has recently become positive. Would this be an illustration of margins attractiveness and the setting up of a new mobility model as observed in Europe, or should we grasp this evolution in the light of radically different Oceanian benchmarks ? Based on research carried out in Rurutu, this article questions the nature and the sources of contemporary mobility in French Polynesia as well as the existence of a post-modern mobility model.