This chapter discusses the mobilities of student newcomers to and in Paris by focusing on portrayals of aeromobility and mobilities in the Paris Metro. The texts analyzed range from novels published in the 1960s to the 1980s, the 1990s, and even the 2010s, and include Aké Loba’s Kocoumbo, l’étudiant noir (1960), Camara Laye’s Dramouss (1966), Ken Bugul’s Le Baobab fou (1983), Gisèle Hountondji’s Une Citronnelle dans la neige (1986), Monique Ilboudo’s Le Mal de peau (1992), Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps (1996), and Liss Kihindou’s Chêne de bambou (2013). The readings emphasize the role played by modes of transport in the formation of “modern” mobile subjectivity. While air travel is represented as an alienating experience that sets in motion an assimilatory process, the student newcomers’ journeys in the Paris Metro can be read in part as claims of agency that aim at handling and claiming belonging within the urban space. The poetics of mobility in scenes of aeromobility reflect the newcomers’ frictional transition into a new life in the metropolis, while their journeys in the Metro capture their disorientation in the underground transit system but also their attempts to make sense of the city.