South Asia, the world’s most densely populated region, is home to some of the largest and most dynamic migration flows—both internal and international. Yet, despite the scale and significance of this mobility, migrants across the region remain largely excluded from formal political participation. In most of the region’s countries, the right to vote rigidly remains tied to fixed residence and in-person voting requirements which, combined with limited, ineffective or inexistent absentee voting provisions, leave millions of absent citizens unable to exercise their democratic rights.