Introduction

The editorial team began conversations about a second, prospective edition of the book, Education, Immigration and Migration: Policy, Leadership and Praxis for a Changing World (2019), united by a common purpose. As scholars of (im)migration and educational leadership who focus on the ways that immigration and education policies and school practices alternately provide or deny educational access to forcibly displaced persons, we decided that a fundamental goal of the new edited volume would have to speak back to the state of the world. We wanted the scholarship to speak honestly and forthrightly about this contemporary moment and how the effects of war, climate change, unstable political leadership, and fragile socioeconomic systems have created the mass forced displacement of tens of millions of people, weakening access to basic human rights, including access to education (Arar, 2020; UNHCR, 2023).