The Conference on Poverty and Migration in South Asia is being held jointly by SAAPE and the
Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University (NLSIU).The two day Conference
will be held at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore on February 24-25, 2019.
Migration is a huge challenge in South Asia, as also across the globe. It is collateral to the industrial
growth lead model of economic development that leads to rural distress and urban growth. Policy
measures are in most cases grossly inadequate to meet the needs of these large demographic
transformations. The presence of the migrant is ubiquitous in the region. Nearly one in every three
persons in India is a migrant, going by the Census definition for migration in India.In Pakistan around
one in six urban dwellers is a migrant.Similar statistics for urban growth and migration are found for
most of the South Asian countries.
