Recordings of the Webinar “Climate Change & Human Displacement”
SimiRoma2024-04-10T16:36:35+00:00Climate Change & Human Displacement: an appeal to listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor On April 8th, the Scalabrini International Migration Institute co-organized the webinar Climate Change and Human Displacement. This was the third webinar in the international and ecumenical Migration, Ethics, and Theology webinar series, an ongoing conversation aimed at promoting dialogue on migration between theologians, migration scholars, church and civic leaders, activists, as well as refugees and migrants themselves. The webinar discussed how climate change is a factor in human displacement and how the Church and society should respond to this [...]
SIMI Talk with Mary Brown
SimiRoma2024-03-04T14:16:41+00:00With Mary Brown, director of the archives of the Center for Migration Studies, we talk about how the presence of Scalabrinians in North America has changed from the first mission to today as well as of the importance of research and study in pastoral care. Mary Brown received her doctorate in 1987 from Columbia University in the City of New York partly on the strength of her dissertation on Italian Catholics in the Archdiocese of New York from 1880 to 1930, which focused on how parishes persisted and adapted across generations. She has continued to research and write in that [...]
Recordings of the Webinar “Communicating Migration”
SimiRoma2024-02-21T09:33:10+00:00On February 14th 2024, SIMI organized the webinar Communicating Migration: Resistance, Resilience, and Activism. We share the welcoming speech of Fr. Aldo Skoda, director of SIMI, and recordings of the speakers' speeches. "Thank you for joining us. Migration has indeed become a defining feature of the social, cultural, economic, political and religious life of a world increasingly characterized by the controversial forces of globalization as well as by ongoing conflicts and growing natural disasters. It is also a dominant theme in the media, which often stoke fears and divisions at the expense of the stories and lives of those involved. [...]
“Building bridges and tearing down walls”
SimiRoma2024-03-01T14:42:09+00:00“Building bridges and tearing down walls” through migrant resistance, resilience, activism, and world making On February 14th 2024, SIMI organized the webinar Communicating Migration: Resistance, Resilience, and Activism. After opening words from Veronica De Sanctis, Project Manager at SIMI and moderator of the webinar, Fr. Aldo Skoda, Executive Director of SIMI and Professor of Pastoral Theology and Human Mobility at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, mentioned the fears and divisions particularly prevalent in current media, wherein migrants and refugees are often used as merely a tool for creating divisions. To oppose this narrative, he stated that this webinar would [...]
SIMI TalkJulia Young
SimiRoma2024-01-22T14:53:40+00:00With Julia Young we address the issue of migration flows from Mexico to the United States through a historical analysis of the phenomenon. Julia G. Young is a historian of migration, Mexico and Latin America, and Catholicism in the Americas at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She has published scholarly articles in The Americas, The Catholic Historical Review, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Modernism, and the Journal on Migration and Human Security. She is the author of the prize-winning book, Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2015). She co-edited Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to [...]
The Global Refugee Forum 2023 and the need for international cooperation towards humanity and fraternity
SimiRoma2023-12-20T10:42:58+00:00The Global Refugee Forum 2023 and the need for international cooperation towards humanity and fraternity By Annemarijn Cozijnsen From the 13th to the 15th of December, the Global Refugee Forum 2023 took place in Geneva, Switzerland. This Forum is organized every four years, in order to assist the practical implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees, a 2018 United Nations agreement and framework aimed at improving the international response to the needs of refugees. The Global Compact on Refugees sets out a framework for fairer responsibility-sharing across countries on the basis of improved international cooperation, as well as a blueprint [...]
Unite, Act, Deliver: the nexus between climate change and human mobility at COP28
SimiRoma2023-12-15T09:39:54+00:00Unite, Act, Deliver: the nexus between climate change and human mobility at COP28 By Annemarijn Cozijnsen On December 12, 2023, the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). COP28 was an important UN Summit - lasting from November 30 until December 12, 2023 -, bringing nations and other stakeholders together in order to find global solutions to the climate crisis. Some 85,000 participants were present at COP28, sharing ideas and building coalitions. Herein, the critical connections between climate change and human mobility were highlighted [...]
The New Scalabrinian Mission in Uganda
SimiRoma2023-12-01T17:58:32+00:00Uganda hosts more refugees than any other country in Africa and is now a case study. What is the situation in Kampala, the area where you serve? Can you tell us about the Scalabrinian mission? (When was it opened, etc...) Thank you for this question. Kampala is one of the fastest growing African cities in terms of markets and business. This has become a pull factor for some economic migrants and refugees (including those in refugee settlements). Therefore, there's a massive presence of migrants and refugees in Kampala, originating from other African countries. There are several large communities of migrants [...]