Afghan Diaspora Remittances: A Lifeline for Families - Online Seminar
Channel: UNU MERIT
Date: 2023-11-30

Afghan diaspora remittances are a lifeline for families and (potential) contributors to development in Afghanistan. This is a seminar based on work done for the South Asia Migration Report (SAMR) 2024, which will be published early next year. 

In this seminar, we discuss both social and financial remittances at collective and individual levels by the Afghan diaspora.

SAMR is published by Routledge every three years, reporting migration themes in South Asian countries. The SAMR editor is Professor S. Irudaya Rajan, who is the chair of the KNOMAD (The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) World Bank working group on internal migration and urbanization.

About the speaker:
Nasrat Sayed is a researcher at the Faculty of Law and School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University. In September 2021, Nasrat together with Assistant Prof Lilian Tsourdi won a Hestia research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) which is aimed to enhance the integration of excellent researchers with a refugee background in Dutch academia. As part of this research grant, Nasrat is currently working on the external financial governance of EU migration funding.