How can youth migration be transformed from a challenge into an opportunity? This report analyses the positive and negative impacts of international migration on young people from a rights and gender perspective. Youth migrants comprise 12% of global migrants but they are mostly absent from global policy debates and national policies and there is not enough concrete data available to support evidence-based policies that maximise the positive effects of youth migration. This summary document captures key findings and recommendations from five thematic sections of the full report: 1) Facts, figures and trends; 2) how human rights, social protection and gender intersect with youth migration; 3) education, employment and health; 4) mainstreaming migration; 5) young people’s vulnerability to the effects of environmental degradation and climate change. Key recommendations include strengthening the evidence base on youth migration and fully integrating international migration, including youth migration, into the post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda. Governments should establish a comprehensive migration governance agenda that explicitly incorporates youth migration. With the right policies in place, migration can become an empowering experience and young migrants will contribute significantly to economic and social development both in their countries of origin and destination.