Crossing Borders to Connect Routes

Crossing Borders to Connect Routes: Bridging Transnational Perspectives to Challenge Inequity and Racism in Education brings together a collective reflection on how migration, race, and education intersect in a world marked by mobility and division. Drawing on research conducted across the United States, Brazil, Uruguay, and Spain, this volume explores how borders—geographical, institutional, and symbolic—shape the educational experiences of racialised and migrant communities.

The book examines how schools, policies, and everyday practices can simultaneously reproduce and resist systemic inequities. It brings to light the subtle mechanisms through which exclusion takes place, from epistemic racism to linguistic hierarchies and the invisibility of certain groups in policy frameworks. Yet, alongside these persistent forms of injustice, Crossing Borders to Connect Routes reveals spaces of hope and transformation: classrooms, communities, and initiatives where relationships of care, recognition, and collective action take root.

This transnational project invites readers to consider education as both a mirror of broader social structures and a potential catalyst for change. By weaving together experiences and perspectives from diverse social and cultural contexts, the book highlights the power of collaboration and shared reflection in confronting global challenges. At its heart, Crossing Borders to Connect Routes is a book about connections: between people and places, between research and practice, and between critical awareness and ethical commitment. It asks what it means to educate in times of uncertainty, and how, through dialogue and collective imagination, education can open pathways toward greater equity and justice.