Social mobility, broadly defined as the movement of humans, communities, and families, has been on the rise in many parts of the world for a number of reasons. As such, institutions of higher education have been tasked to provide open and equal opportunities for all students to learn, succeed, and positively contribute to local, national, and global societies especially among refugees, immigrants, and asylum-seekers. In fact, great strides are being made in optimizing the access, retention, completion, and perhaps post-graduation success. However, the success of such endeavors has been an exception rather than the rule around many institutions, especially given huge disparities among youth, women, and minorities. The objective of the proposed roundtable is to bring together several community psychologists from the world’s “hot spots” and “cold spots” for migration and gender issues in order to address developmental and educational issues particularly for youth and women in East Asia, Europe, and the U.S. One major issue here is the education of those who are in the margins, i.e., migrants, refugees, women and youth, ethnic and religious minorities, and intersectional individuals who are displaced by economic and political turmoil and sustained conflict. Some of the educational issues will target the refugee women in India, women and youth in Brazil, Filipino and Korean women and children in Japan, displaced young women in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Maori youth in New Zealand, new migrants in Poland, and Latinx women and youth from South America in the U.S. Many of the higher education institutions in intractable and even non-intractable areas around the world have yet to fully address many of these educational and developmental issues among youth and women’s lives. Therefore, the second objective of the roundtable is to provide comparative perspectives on the future of interventions to promote the well-being of women and youth through the institutions of higher education in Asia, the US, the Oceania, and Europe.