SIMI Talk with Mary Brown
With 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 [...]
Recordings of the Webinar “Communicating Migration”
On 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 [...]
“Building bridges and tearing down walls”
“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 [...]
SIMI TalkJulia Young
With 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 [...]
The Global Refugee Forum 2023 and the need for international cooperation towards humanity and fraternity
The 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 [...]