Maria D. Lombard is assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar.

Introduction: Displaced Mothers and the Borders They Must Cross, Maria D. Lombard

Part One: Representations of Displacement

Chapter One: "We were born from beauty": Motherly Aesthetics and Poetics of Displacement in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Quynh H. Vo

Chapter Two: Domesticating Displacement, Encounters with Refugee Mothers, Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Chapter Three: Tracing the Impacts of War in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost Souls, Alison Graham Bertolini

Chapter Four: Writing about My Mother: Representations of Alliances between Mothers and Daughters in Young Adult (YA) Refugee Literature, Stella Mililli

Chapter Five: The Ghost Mother in Two Vietnamese American Refugee Novels: A Critical Refugee Analysis, Janet J. Graham

Part Two: Constructions of Identity and Belonging

Chapter Six: Embroidering Intergenerational Threads of a Roza: Stitching Together Women's Stories and Solidarity in the Fabric of Diasporic Arab American Fiction, Leila Moayeri Pazargadi

Chapter Seven: Mothering on Enemy Land: An Analysis of Japanese Picture Brides' Motherhood in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, Kaori Mori Want

Chapter Eight: Guiding, Shaping and Resisting: Refugee Mothers' Educational Strategies as They Navigate 'Unsettlement', Lucy Hunt

Chapter Nine: Iraqi Mothers, Diasporic Sons: Narrative Patterns of Identity and Belonging in Baghdad Twist, Lamees Al Ethari

Chapter Ten: (Un)Inhabitable 'Homes' for Mothers and Daughters: The Transmission of Memories of 'Home' in Sri Lankan Tamil Diasporic Women's Writing, Sabreena Niles