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The transnational dynamics of socio-spatial mobility and immobility are intrinsically both political and geographic. Yet only recently has research on transnational migration begun to engage explicitly with the central concerns of the disciplinary subfield of political geography. This chapter provides a review of the emerging transnational migration literature as it speaks to central concerns within political geography. In particular, the discussion centers on the geographic migration research that is framed in terms of transnationalism and feminist political geography. The primary goals of tracing this literature are to explore the contributions of critical cross-border migration studies for political geography, and to identify the parallel advances in both migration studies and political geography. Political geography in the 1980s and 1990s expanded its core conceptualizations of ‘the political’. Specifically, while maintaining the …