Narratives of migrant mothering are a small but distinct feature of the dynamic landscape of contemporary literatures of mobility and the growing repertoire of narratives of mothering in French. i However, they are not included in Gill Rye’s ground - breaking study Narratives of Mothering (2009) which discusses a wide range of mo thering experiences represented from the mothers’ point of view in contemporary women’s writing in France. This notable absence is arguably due to two reasons – the time period and the geographical space covered by the study. Rye’s book focuses on “mothers ’ own narratives of mothering, in writing by women in France [...] from the early 1990s through to the first years of the twenty - first century” (15). N arratives of migrant mothering emerge as a theme at the turn of the twenty - first century, especially in its second decade, and in contemporary women’s writing in French rather than in France only . These literatures as well as their creators inhabit culturally and geographically expanded spaces spanning across several countries, often even continents, cultures, and languages.