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On 15 May 2015 from 15.00 to 18.00 hrs. at the Aula 12 of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, the Seminar titled, “Bonomelli and Scalabrini: Two Bishops whose Hearts a Diocese was not Enough to” was held. The even was organized by the Fondazione Migrantes (CEI), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI) in Rome and Fondazione Iniziative e Studi sulla Multietnicità (ISMU) in Milano. The program was composed of two sessions. The first session, more from the historical perspective, was dedicated to the presentation of the contributions by prof. Matteo Sanfilippo (Bonomelli, Scalabrini and italian emigration), Mgrs. Gian Carlo Perego (The Opera of Bonomelli for emigrants) and prof. [...]

On 11 May 2015 the second meeting of the group Studio SIMI - PUG,  which has chosen as topic for the whole 2015 "irregular migration" was held in the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In this meeting prof . Fabio Baggio presented his contribution titled, "Irregular migration, trafficking and smuggling. Mixed scenarios in the European Union and in Italy" , through which he tried to trace the current landscape of unauthorized migrants in Europe and particularly in Italy, starting from collected and available official data. The meetings of the Study Group are structured as a writeshop and on this occasion the attending scholars expressed their comments and [...]

The Director of SIMI, Fabio Baggio, was invited to deliver the course "History and problems of migration" within the Master  Program in Intercultural and interfaith Mediation organized by the Academia of Human and Social Sciences (ASUS) in collaboration with the Salesian Pontifical University. The Master, which is constituted of lectures and distance learning, is structured in 1,500 hours, equal to 60 ECTS. The course entrusted to Prof. Baggio includes 4 hours of lectures, which were delivered on Saturday 9 May 2015 at the headquarters dell'ASUS in Rome. This 2015 edition is attended by 21 students from different ethnic backgrounds and training.

Monday, 4 May 2015, Prof. Fabio Baggio, director of SIMI, was ivitato to deliver a day of conferences in the  ongoing formation course of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles, Scalabrinians. The course, organized in Piacenza normally during the month of May, this year gathered more than twenty religious operating in different countries of the world. Prof . Baggio was given the task of identifying the most relevant socio-pastoral challenges posed to the universal Church and the local Churches by the contemporary human mobility phenomenon and proposing some possible responses.

The director of SIMI, Fabio Baggio, was invited to participate in the Triennial General Assembly of the Scalabrini Lay Peopleof the  Region Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, which brought together representatives of the various Scalabrinian lay groups operating in Europe and in Africa. The meeting was held in Piacenza on 1-3 May 2015 and focused on the topic "New Horizons for the Scalabrinian Family: the role of the laity." Prof. Fabio Baggio gave a lecture on "Lay Scalabrinians: history, identity and action" in which he stressed the importance of recovering the past in order to interpret the present and the future of the Scalabrinian [...]

On 29 April 2015 at the consultation room of the Center for Migration Studies in Rome (CSER) the issue 197 of the scientific journal "Studi Emigrazione," containing the proceedings of the 2014 edition of the Summer School "Human Mobility and global justice" was officially launched. The event took the title of the aforementioned Summer School "Words matter ... Define, represent, communicate the world of migration." Prof. Laura Zanfrini, editor of the volume, Prof. René Manenti, Director of CSER, Prof. Giovanni Giulio Valtolina, head of family and religion ISMU Foundation, Prof. Gian Carlo Perego, director of the Fondazione Migrantes, and Prof. Fabio Baggio, president [...]

SIMI has collaborated in the organization of the ongoing formation course offered by the Region of Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini in Brescia from 14 to 16 April 2015. The course gathered over 50 Scalabrinian missionaries in order to take vision of the actual situation of migration in Europe and Africa, investigate real roots, the asymmetries between the north and south that force to emigrate, as well as the dynamics of exploitation and violence underlying the world of human mobility. The contributions of the various sessions were delivered by René Manenti (Centro Studi Emigration Rome - CSER), Fabio Baggio, president of SIMI, and Aldo Skoda, Vice [...]

The 12th volume of the series Quaderni SIMI has been published and it now available. On 28 November 2013, at the Newman Hall of the Pontifical Urban University, the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI) held its traditional Academic Act. The 2013 edition of the act was titled, "Not by Bread Alone ... Human Mobility and Development Scenarios." The 2013 edition of the Academic Act of SIMI, in its first two sessions, wanted to summarize the reflections matured in several areas of science and theology to draw a conceptual framework, which would include also the latest developments. In the third session, the speakers tried to [...]

SIMI was invited by the ISSR "Mater Ecclesiae" of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) to give a series of lectures on the phenomenon of human mobility and the pastoral responses that the Catholic Church has set up in recent times as part of module on pastoral theory and practice entitled "Evangelizing". In this context, on February 25, 2015, from 15:30 to 17:00 hrs., prof. Aldo Skoda and Fr. Corrado Caroli  dictated a lecture on "The pastoral care of human mobility: challenges and opportunities". On March 3, 2015, from 15.30 to 17.00 hrs., prof. Gioacchino Campese delivered a lecture on "The theology of human mobility: [...]

On 25 February 2015, the Director of SIMI, Fabio Baggio, participated in a seminar in Luanda, Angola, organized by the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobiity in Africa (SIHMA) in collaboration with the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (SEPAMI) of the Conferencia Episcolal Angolana and the national Caritas. The seminar served to present the Portughues version of the book "Africanos on the Move." It was attended by some sixty experts, pastoral workers and representatives of institutions. In his speech, Baggio, editor of the book, presented the purpose and methodology of the research that produced the reports collected in the book.