On 1 February 2016, at the SIMI headquarters, P. Vengacheriyil Kora Jaimón has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis. The dissertation titled, “Migration and Development. Impacts of Migration on Members of the Left – Behind Families in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly” was highly graded by the moderator, prof. Fabio Baggio, and the correlators, prof. Francis-Vincent Anthony and prof. René Manenti. The same professors composed the thesis defense commitee. P. Jaimon, who now holds the title of doctor on pastoral theology of human mobility, Summa cum laude, would be able to make use of such title only upon the publication of his dissertation or an excerpt of it.
