Recent works have invited us to look into how modes of secularism influence the shape of ‘modern’ religion. This literature has remained quite state-centred paying less attention to how concepts of secularism migrate from one national context to another. This paper seeks to investigate these transnational dynamics. More specifically, it aims to explore this process of traveling through the contemporary writings of Quebecois ‘feminists’ of North African or Middle-Eastern descent. I propose to approach their writings as ‘travelogues’; a genre which acts as an invitation to focus on the ‘traveling’ dimension and politics of location of their accounts. A special emphasis is put on analysing how these authorships are vehicles for the travel of deeply gendered visions of secularism from France to Quebec. Ultimately, the paper argues that taking these processes of transnational migrations in consideration are necessary to better locate and understand the politics of national debates.
