Network for advocacy and research on migration issues in South Asian countries. SAMReN’s aims include:
- exchanging information on the nature and magnitude of migration flows
- developing a database to assist governments in taking appropriate policy measures
- engaging in policy advocacy and providing information and options to policy makers at national and regional levels
- developing an information resource base of migration literature
- promoting collaborative research
- developing the capacity of young academics, professionals and NGOs through training, fellowships, and other means
SAMReN also plans to hold conferences on migration and to publish monographs.
The website includes more details on SAMReN and several sets of documents which can be downloaded:
- facts and figures on migration in South Asia
- documents on emigration and labour related legislation in South Asia
- international legal instruments on migration
- government programmes for migration
- civil society initiatives
- research papers
- migration bibliographies and summaries of books
- advocacy tools
- the newsletter of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) at the University of Dhaka, ‘Udbastu’ (“The Uprooted”)
SAMReN’s secretariat is based at RMMRU (see separate entry).