PROGRAM

 

DAY 1 - 19/05/25

Schedule

Activity

16h00

Accreditation

18h00

Opening

18h15

Opening Mystique

18h30

Main conference: Human mobility: itineraries for a humanizing coexistence

Jorge Castillo Guerra

19h15

Questions

19h30

Closing

DAY 2 - 20/05/25

Schedule

Activity

08h30

Accreditation

9h

Round table: Human Mobility in the Americas

Speakers:

Andreas Feldmann - University of Chicago (Chile / USA) - 30'
Emmanuel Saula Kitambala - (Migrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo) - 20'
Davi Machete - Contravento y Marea (Mexico) -20'


Debate - 30'

10h40

Interval

11h

Round table: Public policies for the mobile population

Edna Co - University of the Philippines (Manila, Philippines) - 20'

Michael Mutava - New South Institute (Kenya/South Africa) - 20'

Luciana Gandini - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) - 20'

Bela Feldmann Bianco - State University of Campinas/UNICAMP - (Campinas, SP - Brazil) - 20'

Debate - 30'

13h

Lunch

14h30

Book/video launches

15h

Colloquium - Practical exercise in thinking about an inclusive model of society, taking into account the diversity and contributions of people on the move

Facilitators: Rockmillys Basante Palomo - Social Action Brotherhood Without Borders (Curitiba, PR - Brazil) and Rosa Maria Martins - MSCS Journalist (São Paulo, SP - Brazil)

17h45

Coffee break

18h15

- Main conference - A dialog between migrant struggles and struggles for hospitality in Latin America - Yellow Varela

19h

Questions

19h15

Closing

  

DAY 3 - 21/05/25

Schedule

Activity

08h30

Accreditation

9h

Round table - How does civil society value/humanize/strengthen the role of migrants and refugees?
Facilitator: Flavia Reis (Jesuit Service for Migrants and Refugees - SJMR)


Amarela Varela - Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (Mexico) - 20'


Luis Enrique Garcia Rodriguez - Asociación de Venezoelanos Residentes en Santo Domingo de Los Tsachilas, Ecuador - ASOVEC - 20'


Maria Ozânia da Silva - Migrant Pastoral Service - SPM (Goiânia, Brazil) - 20'


Debate - 30'

10h40

Interval

11h

Africa round table
Facilitator: Augustine Kokou Tchotchovi - Sister MSCS (Togo / Angola)


Michael Mutava - New South Institute (Kenya/South Africa) - 30′


Ibrahim Kalilu - Association for the welfare of refugees in Angola/ABRA (Sudan / Angola) - 20′


Armando Bernardo Tonela - Centro J. B. Scalabrini (Mozambique) - 20'


Debate - 30'

13h

Lunch

14h30

Book/video launches

15h

WORKSHOPS - Guiding question: Strategies for understanding, valuing and humanizing migrants/refugees

Themes in Portuguese:

  1.  Action by organized civil society on behalf of migrants/refugees

Coordinator: Claudete Rissini (MSCS - Brazil)
Presentation: Eliza Donda (Missão Paz - SP)

    2. Intercultural welcoming practices and the importance of language

Coordinator: Fabíola Ribeiro de Souza - Centro Interescolar de Línguas CIL - Brazil

Presentation: Suzana Martinez (MOBILANG - UnB - Brazil)

      3. The role of migrant children and young people

Coordinator: Barbara Marques (CSEM)

Presentation: Maria Catarina Chitolina Zanini (UFSM / UnB - Brazil)

      4. Media and migration

Coordinator: Denise Cogo (ESPM - Brazil)

Presentation: Julia Camargo (Federal University of Roraima - Brazil) and

Lucas Zanetti (ESPM-Brazil)

    5. Mental health and migration/refuge (UCB)

Coordinator: Marta Helena de Freitas (UCB - Brazil)

Presentation: Merlina Saudade Ferreira Neira (Florianópolis, SC - Brazil)

   6. Mass deportations: migration policies and the criminalization of migration (Portuguese)

Coordinator: Glaucia de Oliveira Assis
Presentation: Sueli Siqueira

Topics in Spanish:

   7. Methodological challenges in the study of migrant struggles

Coordinator: Tuila Botega (CSEM)

Presentation: Soledad Velasco and Amarela Varela

    8. Protagonism and solidarity practices of migrants and refugees

Coordinator: Sr. Lidia Mara Sousa (SMR)

Presentation: Farida Acevedo (Mexico)

    9. Venezuelan diaspora

Coordinator: Diana Mundarain (CSEM)

Presentation: Matheus Lira Bento UFPEL

    10. Intercultural theology of migration

Coordinator: Carmem Lussi (CSEM)

Presentation: Jorge Castillo Guerra (Netherlands)

Theme in Spanish/English:

    11. Voces buscadoras y desapariciones de migrantes: Blossoming in resistance

Coordinator: Conrado Zepeda Miramontes (IBERO Puebla)

Presentation: Guillermo Yrizar (IBERO Puebla)

Theme in English:

    12. Climate change and human mobility

Coordinator: Carolina de Abreu Claro (IREL - UnB)

Presentation: Arianna Poletti (IUSS Pavia - Italy) - to be confirmed

    13. Labor migration

Coordinator: Elizabeth Pedernal (MSCS - Asia Delegation)

Presentation: Edna Co (PAASE; AASSREC - Philippines)

    14. Migration routes and borders

Coordinator: Sr. Leticia Valderrama Gutierrez (MSCS - El Paso / Texas)

Presentation: Andreas Feldmann (UIC - Chicago, USA)

17h45

Coffee break

18h15

Main conference: Problematizing the Problem with Migration - Rose Jaji

19h

Questions

19h15

Cultural dinner

  

DAY 4 - 22/05/25

Schedule

Activity

08h30

Accreditation

9h

Reading the draft final document

09h30

Round table Europe

Maurizio Ambrosini - Università di Milano, Italy - 30'

Ryyan Alshebl - Syrian immigrant in Germany - 20'

Thomas Broch - Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany - 20'

Debate - 30'

11h40

Interval

11h45

Asia round table

Michelle Palumbarit - UP-CIFAL Philippines - 30'

Nasrikah Paidin - Indonesian migrant leadership in Malasya - 20′

Elizabeth Pedernal - Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters - Manila, Philippines- 20'

Debate - 30'

13h15

Lunch

14h30

Launch of participants' books

15h

Migration/refugee round table and intersectionalities

Feminization of migration - Delia Dutra - Universidad de la República, CENUR LN, Uruguay - 20'

Migrants/refugees with disabilities - Bárbara Marques - CSEM, Brasília, Brazil - 20'

Migratory Irregularity - Maurizio Ambrosini - Università di Milano, Italy - 20'

Xenophobia and racism - Renata de Melo Rosa - 20'

Debate - 30'

17h

Final document launched with press conference

Press conference manager: Rodrigo Bonfim - Migramundo

17h30

Final coffee break

  

 

 

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