This book is both a collection of cutting-edge research in the areas of multilingualism, translanguaging and bilingual education, and a tribute to the research and influence of Ofelia García. It recognizes Ofelia García's contribution as both a scholar and friend, and her place at the centre of a movement dedicated to equality and inclusion.

Bahar Otcu-Grillman is an Associate Professor of TESOL/Bilingual Education in the Literacy and Multilingual Studies Department at Mercy College, New York, USA. She is the co-editor of Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City (with Ofelia García and Zeena Zakharia, 2013, Multilingual Matters).

Maryam Borjian is an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. She is the author of English in Post-Revolutionary Iran (2013, Multilingual Matters) and editor of Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach (2017, Routledge).