Sami Nair

{{Short description|French political philosopher (born 1946)}}

{{BLP sources|date=June 2010}}

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Sami Nair (born 23 August 1946, in Tlemcen) is an Algerian-born French political philosopher{{cite web

|url=http://www.fcginternationalawards.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1000

|accessdate=2010-06-13

|title=FCG International Lifetime Achievement Award 2006: SAMI NAÏR

}} who coined the term "codevelopment".{{cite book

|title=Working papers, 2005 ordinary session (fourth part), 3 - 7

|author=Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly

|date=6 April 2006

|page=170

|publisher=Council of Europe

|isbn=978-92-871-5893-2

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SvZ7_NnebwC&pg=PA170

|accessdate=2010-06-13

}}{{cite conference

|conference=ISTR 8th International Conference

|url=http://www.istr.org/conferences/barcelona/WPVolume/Vidal.Martinez.pdf

|page=5

|title=An approach to codevelopment: The transnational migrating community: protagonist of codevelopment

|author=Pau Vidal / Sara Martínez

|date=December 2008

|accessdate=2010-06-13

}} A specialist on migration movements and their socio-political effects, he advised the government of Lionel Jospin from 1997–1999, and the European Parliament until 2004. Since 2001 he has been vice president of the Citizen and Republican Movement.