Migration and mobility have long characterized Europe, whatever its shifting boundaries and definitions have been throughout the centuries. This panel knits together presentations from international politics, organizational development, education, social work, cultural and area studies in order to examine the fabric of the social safety net that is growing to connect schools, “third spaces,” social services, legal and human rights organizations. The ways that new migrants and long-time citizens are negotiating what it means to live together, to be European, and to be educated are all in flux.  Both on local and global scales, humane responses are called for that are proactive, flexible, and resilient in the face of ever-increasing pressures to innovate and include. We look at networks starting at the local scale, examining, e.g. the consequences for minor refugees who bring both their traumas as well as their unique strengths and aspirations to school and to third spaces where they learn to thrive again. We ask what it means to belong, to learn the language of a new country, even to exercise human rights or to fully participate in the extended spaces for learning and belonging as citizens. Then we systematically extend our analysis to regional and then global scales to examine e.g. new modes of mapping porous European borders and thus visualizing gaps or overlapping agency services. The panel features the collective expertise from distinguished full professors, leaders of coordinated European-wide projects, mentors on multi-generational research teams, talented ethnographers, accomplished practitioners, and emerging undergraduate scholars.