In the two years since RIN’s landmark Paradigm Shift report, investors, funders, and entrepreneurs have been applying the refugee lens in increasingly sophisticated ways.
We now see capital being actively deployed at all stages of human movement: in companies and funds aimed at preventing future displacement, in those seeking to support the displaced in the early stages of a crisis, and those focused on the long-term economic inclusion and integration into formal economies for refugees that cannot return home.
This report considers some of the more promising and potential market-based, refugee-supporting investment opportunities, and presents a path forward for continuing to grow the field of refugee and migration lens investing.