I explore the representation of irregular migration from the Arab world to Europe, North America and Australia, in particular Third World Arab women’s clandestine journeys to the global North. My study is centred upon the analysis of literary and cinematographic “illegal” immigration narratives that shed light on the movement of paperless Arab female citizens and their experiences in the countries of origin. My dissertation underlines the contradiction between the unrestricted movement of commercial goods from the global North to the South, and the restrictions placed on the movement of people from Third World countries to the developed world. Drawing upon transnational feminism and trying to build a located version of Arab transnational feminism(s), my main argument is that Third World Arab women have to strive against the subordination generated by male domination, as well as against the poverty and increased border regulation induced by globalization. My reliance on intersectionality complicates the otherwise flat category of the “Arab and Muslim females” on whose names Westerners so often speak.