The insights in the chapters of this book are the result of our collaborations related to the comparative research project Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change, in relation to refugee inclusion. In the proposal we wrote for this project in 2017, we presented the story of Sarah (a refugee woman from Eritrea) as a transformative narrative to show the importance of engaged scholarship in the lives of refugees. As the example of Sarah shows, for those who are disadvantaged, a lack of resources often leads to limits on negotiating capacity, as well as to a decreased sense of confidence. By situating the individual story of Sarah within historical and societal Dutch contexts, while also engaging with various societal actors, we showed the long-term impact of the deficit approach that led to the loss of Sarah’s self-confidence and even more importantly to the loss of her strong personal story. Scholarly engagement with various societal actors, including refugees, enabled a story of loss to transform into a narrative that would help societal actors reflect on the taken-for-granted deficit approach that paralyzes refugees even when it comes from good intentions. Collaborations within our comparative research project Engaged Scholarship and Narrative of Change helped us to deepen this line of thinking in several different directions, which we present in this chapter: (1) connecting the deficit approach with an indigenous body of literature; (2) engaging with decolonizing methodologies; (3) developing conditions for transformative community engagement; and (4) emphasizing ethics of care in relation to epistemic multiplicity, in particular engaging with the imaginative capacity of communities when dealing with structures of inequality that disadvantage them.