In this written exchange, we reflect on and discuss intersectional educational exclusions of refugee children and youth in Germany and Turkey, which the authors have addressed in recent years through several joint projects in the intersecting fields of academic research and educational practice. From a national and transnational perspective, we focus in particular on three questions: To what extent are the different discourses and practices of marginalization and discrimination of refugee children and youth in the German and Turkish education systems interwoven? What strategies and methods can we use to counteract intersectional exclusions from education while giving voice to diverse understandings of belonging and experiences of discrimination? How can transnational solidarity be understood in terms of an “engaged pedagogy” across borders (bell hooks) and what challenges do we see for educational projects that follow such an understanding?