The Southern African Migration Project is supported and funded by Heinrich Boll Stiftung and the International Development Research Centre.

AIM of SAMP
The overall objectives of SAMP are:
• To facilitate and enhance regional cooperation in migration research, management and policy-making in Southern Africa
• To generate sound and reliable information on migration dynamics, trends and impacts and to disseminate such information to decision-makers
• To promote awareness of the role and contribution of migrants, immigrants and refugees to host societies

For further information, visit the SAMP website at : http://www.queensu.ca/samp or contact Vincent Williams who is the Idasa SAMP Programme Manager.

SAMP is involved in the following interrelated activities:

A multi-year programme of cooperative research on key policy-related dimensions of contemporary migration in the Southern African region

Convening workshops, conferences and seminars to discuss and develop new policy initiatives around the issue of intra-regional migration

Production of outputs for dissemination to governments and interest groups in Southern Africa

Policy recommendations on request to governments, parliamentary committees, regional bodies and policy makers and legislators

Training programme for migration managers 

For further information, visit the SAMP website at : http://www.queensu.ca/samp or contact Vincent Williams.

SAMP works in Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

The SAMP office is located in the Cape Town Democracy Centre.

Funding Links
Heinrich Boell Foundation - provides funding for the SAMP Migration and Social Cohesion Project.

Idasa, as the South African partner in SAMP, has received a grant from the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) for a project on Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction in the Southern African Region". For further details, visit http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-135850-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

A complete list of SAMP links can be found at Queens University site  http://www.queensu.ca/samp/Links.html

Southern African Websites
• Statistics South Africa (for South African Census 1996 and 2001, follow the 'census' link on the Statistics South Africa main page).
• Chamber of Mines
• Department of Home Affairs
• Foreign Marriage and Family Protection Association
• Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa)
• Lawyers for Human Rights
• National Consortium on Refugee Affairs
• National Union of Mineworkers
• Refugee Research Programme
• South African Legal Materials and Links
• South African Network of Skills Abroad (SANSA)

Related Websites
Rather than attempting to provide an exhaustive list of relevant websites, we refer readers to:
• World Wide Virtual Library of Migration and Ethnic Relations
• The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• Global Campaign for the Ratification of the Convention on Rights of Migrants
• Portal for the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers
all of which contain an impressive list of resources.

Related Research Projects
Innovative international migration research projects of special interest include:
• Mexican Migration Project
• The Metropolis Project
• Transnational Communities Research Programme

Discussion Groups
To facilitate information sharing on all legal aspects of migration issues in Southern Africa, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, has set up an electronic mail discussion group. To subscribe to the list please contact Jonathan Klaaren at 125jo6kl@solon.law.wits.ac.za or at jonathan.klaaren@yale.edu.