“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men,” writes Salman Rushdie in his essay “Imaginary Homelands.” He, like many transnational authors and thinkers, takes up this image of the “translated self” to illustrate the transformations, culture clashes, and barriers inherent to the migration process. But beyond this metaphorical application of the term, what can theories and practices of translation in the linguistic sense tell us about both the personal experience and global implications of geographical displacement? Born(e) Across: Translating the Migrant Experience in Francophone Literature addresses this question in the French-language sphere, examining cross-cultural and multilingual narratives through the intersection of linguistic and sociological visions of translation: that of the unique modes of communication “born across” linguistic borders, and that of the immigrant “borne across” geographical ones. It examines this relationship through a variety of different lenses, including sociolinguistics, cultural hybridity, and racial politics, and takes a comparative approach in considering authors and characters of diverse national backgrounds and with different relationships to migration––from first-generation Vietnamese refugees in Québec to Guadeloupean “third-culture kids” growing up in mainland France––in order to explore how their resonances and divergences offer distinct windows onto the larger experience of migration throughout the French-speaking world.