Giftedness across borders framework: A resource-oriented analysis of migration and forced displacement

Migration and forced displacement create unique educational challenges for gifted children of immigrants. Assessing a country’s capacity to nurture their talent requires a theoretical framework that clarifies identification, guidance, and long-term development processes. Adopting a resource-oriented framework, this paper examines how talent development emerges through the interplay of endogenous resources (e.g. telic, actional) and exogenous resources (e.g. social, infrastructural) in displacement contexts. We introduce three core systems – response, control, and support – to guide effective learning resource management. By applying foundational educational principles (continuity, the law of the minimum, caution, polytely, accessibility, megatopes), we demonstrate that strategic orchestration and monitoring of resources can foster and sustain exceptional abilities among displaced students. Aligned adequately with these principles, such orchestration not only promotes equitable opportunities for gifted children of immigrants but also generates broader social and economic benefits for host societies. Ultimately, by identifying and coordinating critical resources, policymakers and educators can cultivate conditions that enable these students to excel, thereby enriching both individuals and the communities that welcome them.