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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.

Saturday, January 31, 2015, at the operational headquarters of SIMI, Via Dandolo 58, Rome, the study group SIMI - PUG held the first meeting for the year 2015. This group was formed as a joint initiative of the SIMI and the Pontifical Gregorian University and it itnends to study certain relevant areas of the phenomenon of human mobility. The study group currently consists of four professors from SIMI and 4 professors from the Gregorian University. For this year the study groups would address the issue of irregular migration.

On 30 January 2015 at the headquarters of SIMI in via Dandolo 58, Rome, the first Council of Institute of the Academic Year 2014-2015 was held. Fr. Fabio Baggio (director), Fr. Aldo Skoda (vicedirector and amdinistrator), Sara Salvatori (secretary), Fr. René Manenti, Bro. Gioacchino Campese, Fr. Luigi Sabbarese, Fr. Giovanni Rizzi and Deacon Carlos Barbosa attended the meeting. The Council approved the financial report for 2014, the budget for 2015 and the program of the courses for the licentiate in 2015-2017. The same Council also approved the Ph.D. research program of Fr. Pierre Mirindi.

On 23 January 2015 the Commissione di Pastorale Sociale of the Catholic Parrish of Bisogne, province of Brescia, organized the first of three nights dedicated to the issues and problems of immigration in Italy. The first night was titled "Immigration beyond common places". For such occasion the SIMI director was invited to  deliver a conference on the causes, trends and main data concerning the immigration phenomenon in Italy. The audience gathered for the event  actively participated in the open forum which  was  opened at the end of the conference,  underlining how some "myths" succeeded in detouring the attention of the public opinion, hiding the opportunities that immigrants offer to the Church [...]

On 18 January 2015 at the Centro San Luca in Sora (FR) the Office of Migrantes of the Diocese of Sora Cassino Aquino Pontecorvo organized a Round Table Discussion on the main theme of the 101 World Migrant and Refugee Day : "Church without Borders, Mather of All". The SIMI Director participated to the Round Table Discussion with a presentation titled, "The Theological Dimension of Christian Hospitality". The event, which was honored by the presence of the loca Bishop, H.E. the most Reverend Gerardo Antonazzo and the Prefetto of Frosinone, Dr. Emilia Zarrilli, gathered a good audience of experts and practitioners.