Migration Summit Impact Report 2022
Overview
The Migration Summit 2022, organized by the MIT Refugee Action Hub (ReACT), Na’amal, Karam Foundation, Paper Airplanes and the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL), was a month-long global convening in April 2022 designed to build bridges between diverse communities of displaced learners, universities, companies, NGOs, policy makers, and other key stakeholders around the key challenges and opportunities for refugee and migrant communities on the theme of “Education and Workforce Development in Displacement.”
The goal of the Summit was to create new spaces of collaboration and risk-taking, share best practices and deepen cross-institutional connections in order to address these critical gaps and challenges in education and livelihood for displaced communities. We sought to build community and capacity among conveners to establish new ways of working collaboratively together to yield new practice and research spaces in the area of refugee education and livelihoods.
In interactive sessions, 900 participants from over 30 countries and 150 speakers from cross-sector organizations joined a learning journey of exploration of each others’ work, inquiry into the systemic challenges in the field, and discovery of new insights, processes and paths forward together.