Objectives and Thematic Pillars

OBJECTIVES

  • To identify and conduct research to fill the knowledge gap on labour migration at national and regional level in the targeted five South Asian countries.
  • To develop a Migration Portal as a repository of data and evidences on migration and related issues in South Asian countries with an emphasis on gender-disaggregated data and statistic and make it accessible to researchers and other stakeholders.
  • To disseminate the research outputs through workshops and conferences.
  • To publish working papers, research reports, newsletter, articles in peered review Journals, books etc.
  • To carry out capacity building programmes and provide training on concepts, measures, theories, research issues and various aspects of migration with special focus on young researchers in the targeted countries of South Asia
  • To review existing policies of South Asian countries related to migrants, return migrants and provide policy recommendations to the respective Governments for protecting the migrants’ rights.

    • THEMATIC AREA PILLARS OF THE CENTRE

    Pillar 1: Labour migration policies
    Pillar 2: Gender and migration
    Pillar 3: Migration, health and Disaster
    Pillar 4: Migration and development
    Pillar 5: Drivers of migration
    COVID-19 will be mainstreamed in all five thematic pillars.

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