@simn
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Scalabrini International
Migration Network
October 31 2014
Content:
Editorial 1
Annual Network Meeting of Scalabrini Migrant 2
Shelters and Centers in Lima, Peru
SIMN and Scalabrini Foundation Promote Regional 3
Meeting of MADE Americas in Lima, Peru
XIV South American Conference on Migration 4
Includes Proposals of Civil Society Meeting
Coordinated by SIMN
SIMN Participates in the Workshop on Strengthening Capacity of the Brazilian
Government to Manage New Migration
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XI Conference on Policies and Laws on Migration 5
Editorial
Dear friends,
October has been a very busy month for
SIMN not only because of our ongoing work
of supporting development and capacity
building projects promoted by the different
fields and services of the Congregation of the
Missionaries of St. Charles, Scalabrinians, but also
because of our work as organizers, participants
and reporters of different meetings on the
regional and international level.
Casas y Centros de Atención al Migrante Scalabrini held its annual
meeting, with a large attendance of religious and lay Scalabrinian
working with and for migrants. The main objective of the meeting
was to update the action plan of the network and define specific
actions to strengthen its mission to serve the most vulnerable
migrants. Then the MADE Americas Regional Meeting was held
in the framework of the preparatory meeting of the civil society
for the fourteenth session of the South American Conference
on Migration (CSM for its acronym in Spanish); during this
meeting, we worked on the Plan of Action of the Global Forum
on Migration and Development and the Plan of Action of the
South American Conference on Migration, concluding with the
approval of a document that was presented at the XIV South
American Conference on Migration (CSM). Thirdly, during the
XIV CSM, together with the International Network on Migration
and Development, SIMN presented the statement prepared by the
representatives of civil society. Several proposals presented in this
statement were included in the final declaration of the Conference.
SIMN was also present at the XI Annual Conference on
Immigration Law and Policy, held in Washington DC on October
21st, organized by the Centre for Migration Studies of New York
(CMS), the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) and
the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). Finally, SIMN participated
on the panel of “Systems Information and Data Collection on
Migration: Experiences of Civil Society” at the workshop of the
project “Migration Border: Strengthening the Capacity of Brazilian
Government to Manage New Migration Flows,” held in Brasilia on
22nd and 23rd October.
Closing this brief synopsis of our main collaboration activities in
promoting ethical governance of migration, which seeks to promote
the dignity and rights of vulnerable migrants and their families, we
reiterate that @simn is intended to be a two-way communication
link; in this regard, we invite you to communicate your concerns
and comments, which will always be considered.
Fr. Leonir Chiarello cs, Executive Director
Fr. Mario Zambiasi cs, Deputy Executive Director
In this issue we will focus our information
on these activities. Lima was the scene of
three major consecutive events. First, La Red de
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Annual Network Meeting of Scalabrini Migrant
Shelters and Centers in Lima, Peru
Lima, Peru, October 14th – On October 10th and 13th 2014,
the annual gathering Meeting of the International Network of
Scalabrini Migrant Shelters and Centers was held in Lima, Peru. Its
organization and development had the support of the Scalabrini
International Migration Network (SIMN by its acronym in English)
and the Scalabrini Foundation of Chile.
and systematization of data were emphasized through the
implementation of the Base Global Data Network, in addition to
the expansion and improvement of services provided to migrants
and strengthening the ability to coordinate with social and political
actors.
“The meeting affirmed the importance of working, sharing, defining
and evaluating together. This kind of meeting allows us to promote
specificity, and the exemplary significance of the Network in
tune with the guidelines of Chapter XIV of our Congregation.
Furthermore, we updated the action plan and defined specific actions
to strengthen the commitment of the Network with its mission to
serve the most vulnerable migrants. Similarly, we defined concrete
actions to strengthen cooperation with civil society organizations
and government for it to achieve better governance of migration,”
With the assistance of the directors and lay collaborators of the concluded Fr. Idenilso Bortolotto, President of Chile Scalabrini
different Shelters and Migrant Service Centers, the agenda of Foundation.
the meeting included two central themes: 1) specific formation
to the directors and staff of the shelters and centers for migrants Cristina Castillo
and migrant care monitors in the areas of communication,
coordination, advocacy, leadership and social intervention, legal,
labor and socio- pastoral services; 2) update the action plan of the
Network to strengthen programs together and collaborating with
different fields and services of the Congregation of the Missionaries
of St. Charles - Scalabrinians. In the work of updating the plan
of action of the Network, global communications strategies
The main objective of the meeting was to update the action plan of
the Network and define specific actions to strengthen its mission to
serve the most vulnerable migrants, and their collaboration to the
different fields and services of the Congregation of the Scalabrini
Missionaries and other social and political actors in the search
for appropriate responses to current challenges of international
migration.
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Scalabrini International Migration Network
(SIMN) and Scalabrini Foundation Promote
Regional Meeting of MADE Americas in Lima,
Peru
Lima, Peru, October 16th, 2014 – On October 14th and
15th 2014, the regional meeting of the Program Migration and
Development (MADE for its acronym in English ) was held in
Lima, Peru. Such program arises from various different networks
concerns and coalitions of civil society worldwide, and discussions
that arose prior to Global Forums for Migration and Development
(GFMD) since 2011.
The event was coordinated by the Scalabrini International Migration
Network (SIMN), with the support of the Scalabrini Foundation
of Chile, and in coordination with the International Migration
Network and Development (INDM), who is also a partner of
the MADE Program Americas and the International Catholic
Migration Commission (ICMC for its acronym in English), which
coordinates the program MADE worldwide.
The meeting was held within the framework of the preparatory
meeting of the organizations of civil society for the XIV Session of
the South American Conference on Migration (CSM for its acronym
in Spanish), in which representatives of various organized sectors
of civil society in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
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Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela participated.
Participants of this meeting agreed to submit a statement to the
government member countries of the CSM in which it presents the
trends and challenges of migration of the region and proposals to
advance a comprehensive and coherent governance of migration,
based on human rights and human development of migration.
“Meetings like this are vital for us because they allow us join efforts
between actors of civil society, and to share progress that promote
different programs such as MADE. The result of the meeting is
not reduced to the consensus in the elaboration of the statement
that the organizations of civil society developed and presented to
governments of member countries of the CSM, inviting them to
move in implementing the Plan of Action of the Conference, but
also renewed the commitment to work as coupled between civil
society organizations and government agencies, in definition,
implementation and monitoring of public policies on migration
based on recognition, protection and promotion of human rights of
migrants and their families,” said Fr. Leonir Chiarello, Executive
Director SIMN.
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XIV South American Conference on Migration
Includes Proposals of Civil Society Meeting
Coordinated by SIMN
Lima, October 18th, 2014 – From October 15th to 17th, 2014, the International Network Scalabrini Migration (SIMN), while it
XIV South America Conference on Migration (CSM) was encouraged them to continue its analysis and study of migration,
conducted in Lima, Peru, with the motto “Immigration and to promote and defend the rights of migrants.
Inclusion: A Challenge for South American Integration.” The CSM is
a regional and non-binding process that aims to build consensus “SIMN, in its mission to promote the dignity and human rights
in the definition of regional policies on migration. Participating of migrants and their families, reiterates its cooperation with
governments focused their discussion on the implementation of organizations of civil society in South America, which have
the South American Plan of Human Development of Migration highlighted the importance of its participation in the processes of
of the CSM, strengthening of migration governance, regional definition, implementation and monitoring of public policies on
integration and the projection of the South American region.
human mobility, such as the case of the South American Conference
on Migration,” said Fr. Leonir Chiarello, Executive Director of
The final declaration of the XIV CSM considered many proposals SIMN.
of the statement emanated in the regional meeting between civil
society organizations and networks of Program Migration and
Development (MADE Americas), presented by representatives of
the International Red Migration and Development (INDM) and
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SIMN Participates in the Workshop on Strengthening
Capacity of the Brazilian Government to Manage
New Migration
Brasilia, October 24th – On October 22nd and 23rd 2014, a
workshop of the project “Border Migration: Strengthening the
Capacity of Brazilian Government to Manage New Migration
Flows” was held in Brasilia, Brazil (MT Brazil). Funded by the
European Union in cooperation with the National Secretariat of
Justice (Ministry of Justice); the National Immigration Council
(Ministry of Labour and Employment) and the Federal Office
for Migration in Switzerland. Partners of the project include: the
Division of Human Rights of the Federal Police, the Foreigners and
Borders of Portugal (SEF), the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime - Liaison Office and Collaboration in Brazil (UNODC);
Office of the International Labour Organization in Brasilia (ILO)
and the Secretariat of Policies for Women of the Presidency of
Republic of Brazil (SPM). This project is implemented by the
International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD),
an international organization based in Vienna, which develops
technical cooperation projects in Brazil since 2009.
The objective of this project is to strengthen the capacity of the
government of Brazil to improve the management of migration
flows, with a focus on the integration of vulnerable groups such
as returnees, migrants and potential victims of human trafficking.
The workshop aimed to discuss the possibilities of harmonization of
administrative information between different government agencies
involved in the care of international immigrants, and to know the
experiences of institutions that are using the systematization and
dissemination of information on migration flows. The Scalabrini
International Migration Network (SIMN), represented by its
Deputy Executive Director, Fr. Mario Zambiasi was invited to
share experience on systematization of data on care for migrants
worldwide. During the panel, Fr. Zambiasi highlighted the
importance of ensuring the confidentiality of personal data, while
sharing the main migration trends that may reveal the databases.
XI Conference on Policies and Laws on Migration
Washington, D.C. October 22nd – On October 21, 2014, in the
Faculty of Law at the Georgetown University of Washington DC,
the XI Annual Conference on Legislation and Migration Policy
was held. The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS), the
Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) and the Migration
Policy Institute (MPI) organized the Conference. As in previous
years, the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN) was
present at the event.
While the legislative reform of the immigration system seems
paralyzed, policy issues on immigration are really at the forefront
of political debates and the challenges facing the country, state
governments and local governments. In this context, the conference
provided an appropriate political and legal analysis and it opened
a debate on key issues on immigration with panels composed of
government officials, researchers, advocates of migrants and other
immigration experts.
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“It is important that we make this electronic advance in this century
an ally to help us collect and organize relevant data for the study,
understanding and promoting governance of human mobility,” said
Fr. Mário Zambiasi, Deputy Executive Director of SIMN.
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