International Student Security has been built on a full engagement with its topic. It has been nurtured by four research projects, a commissioned literature review and much reading and discussion. It is the product of planning sessions, research data collection, conference papers, policy interventions and participation in media and public debate in several Asia—Pacific countries. Often it has been controversial. The $16 billion international education industry in Australia is good at market research and image management but uncomfortable when critical research findings are discussed. Researchers not owned by the industry create a strategic dilemma for it. In the process of the research we, the authors, have been alternatively abused, invited, enticed and ignored. None of this blocked the research or changed our findings. Nor did the industry assist. None of our efforts to raise research money from industry sources worked, though we do sense there is now more interest in our research than there was before, and it might be contributing to industry reassessment. We are deeply grateful to the Australian Research Council whose unstinting support for critically minded scholarly research made this book possible.