This chapter advances a comprehensive framework for transformative, critically engaged migration scholarship that responds to escalating global inequalities, anti-migration exclusions, and epistemic injustice. It traces how mainstream migration and refugee studies have long reproduced colonial, methodological nationalism and deficit-based representations of migrants and situates the rise of reflexive, justice-oriented scholarship as a necessary counterpoint. Bringing together debates on epistemic justice, decoloniality, and co-creative methodologies, the chapter argues for research practices that value experiential, community, and indigenous knowledges as legitimate and essential. And drawing on insights from a transnational project on engaged scholarship and narratives of change, it conceptualizes transformative engagement as relational, reciprocal, and processual, involving caring, co-creative partnerships while unsettling normalized power hierarchies. This chapter further reflects on how crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic expose precarity shared across academic and (forced) migrant worlds, underscoring the need for humbled scholarship and affirmative ethics rooted in care. By foregrounding polyvocality, co-creation, and sustained collaboration in research across the Global South and North, this chapter demonstrates how transformative scholarship can disrupt exclusionary discourses, cultivate alternative imaginaries, and contribute to collective micro and potentially structural change in the lives of (forced) migrants and in the institutions that shape their conditions of belonging. It also shows the potential of engaged scholarship in claiming space for multiple sources of knowledge as a legitimate basis to imagine institutional change.