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Purpose - This editorial introduces and synthesizes the eight articles included in the special issue on past, present, and future changes in the migrant entrepreneurship landscape. It examines when and how migration-related experiences, identities, relationships, and resources operate as entrepreneurial liabilities or assets within changing organizational and institutional contexts.

Design/methodology/approach - The editorial provides an integrative analysis of eight quantitative, qualitative, configurational, and review-based studies. The contributions are organized around four thematic conversations: the changing knowledge landscape; embeddedness and network architectures; resource configurations, finance, and family governance; and migration pathways, opportunity structures, and entrepreneurial ecosystem power relations. Their insights are synthesized through three analytical vantage points: Liability-Centered Accounts and Continuing Liability Bounding, Liability–Asset Reconfiguration, and the Conditions of Asset Enabling.

Findings - The articles do not support a universal progression from migrant disadvantage to entrepreneurial advantage. Instead, liabilities and assets frequently coexist, while their effects depend on how resources are combined, governed, recognized, and institutionally enabled. Family, ethnic, professional, and transnational relationships perform different and partly complementary functions. Entrepreneurial outcomes depend on configurations of human, social, and financial capital, while access to opportunities remains shaped by migration pathways, language competence, legitimacy, network affiliation, and unequal ecosystem power relations.

Originality/value - The editorial moves beyond treating migrant-related characteristics as inherently disadvantageous or advantageous. It develops a multilevel, process-oriented perspective centered on liability–asset reconfiguration and conditional asset enabling. It also positions organizations, family firms, support systems, networks, and entrepreneurial ecosystems as structures that shape the conversion of migration-related resources into entrepreneurial capabilities.