Events

Conferences, research fora, and occasionally, training programs, are means by which SMC engages various stakeholders to generate discussions and actions on key migration issues and questions.

Past Events

March 11 2026

A Forum on OFW Families: Findings from CHAMPSEA Philippines, 11 March 2026, Bulacan.

March 04 2026

SOSU (Social, Health and Child Care College) Østjylland Study Visit to the Philippines.

February 24 2026

A Forum on OFW Families: Findings from CHAMPSEA Philippines, 24 February 2026, Laguna.

February 18 2026

AspirE-Philippines Final Forum

January 16 2026

The UP Korea Research Center, the Scalabrini Migration Center and the UP Population Institute co-organized a special forum on Korean-Filipino families and children in the Philippines held in SMC on January 16, 2026.

December 18 2025

AspirE Project’s

November 25 2025

Migration Conversations with Mr. Jay Mar Albaos

September 24 2025

SMC hosts a forum to share CHAMPSEA Wave 3 findings and launch policy briefs

July 09 2025

Migration Conversations with Dr. Kazue Takamura

June 20 2025

Migration Conversations with Mr. Kevin Tan

May 28 2025

On May 28, 2025, SMC hosted a policy forum, “Revisiting and Prospecting Philippines-to-Europe Migration: New Trends and Policy Implications.”

April 28 2025

Yesterday, SMC welcomed three researchers visiting from South Korea.

April 25 2025

SMC participated in “Charting the Stars: Where Purpose Meets Profession.” Organized by the Ateneo Association of European Studies Students (AEuSS)

April 22 2025

“Canada Dreaming: Policies and Pathways in the Philippines-Canada Migration Corridor.”

April 08 2025

Migration Conversations with Dr. Yousef Khalifa Aleghfeli

March 28 2025

Migration Conversations with Migration Rhythms

March 20 2025

Migration Conversations with Pietro Genovese

February 12 2025

Migration Conversations with Dr. Rizza Kaye C. Cases

February 08 -08 2024

SMC hosted its first forum of the year

April 20 2023

CHAMPSEA-III

July 24 2020

“Agriculture Calling: Prospects for OFWs

July 17 2020

“After repatriation: Hanap-buhay, hanap pag-asa”

July 10 2020

COVID-19 and beyond: Experiences of OFW Families

July 03 2020

May Bukas Pa: The Children of OFWs in the time of COVID-19

March 16 2020

Three Scalabrini Migration Study Centers Release Reports on the Future of Work for Migrants This research responds to Pope Francis’ second encyclical, Laudato Sì.

February 20 2020

SMC welcomes visitors from FAU

December 20 2019

Christmas Greetings!

December 01 -04 2019

“Putting People at the Centre” and the “Future of Work”

November 29 2019

Documentary on left-behind father-carers launched

November 14 -15 2019

Workshop with guidance counselors

September 20 2019

Consultative conference tackled the direct hiring ban

August 24 2019

M&D Café featured support NGOs for migrant women and children

March 28 2019

Protection needed: Migrant fishermen on Taiwanese fishing vessels

March 21 2019

Possibilities for young people in the agriculture sector

March 14 2019

The differences recruitment systems make

March 02 2019

1st M&D Café in 2019

January 12 2019

Dissemination forum on recruitment systems

November 03 2018

Year-ender M&D Café

September 01 2018

M&D Café, 1 September 2018

August 26 2018

Labor Migration from the Philippines and Korea: EPS Through the Eyes of Filipino Workers Forum

August 23 2018

Study on Kopinos shared in conference

June 25 2018

Roundtable discussion on Kopinos in the Philippines

May 26 2018

M&D Café, 26 May 2018

March 10 2018

M&D Café, 10 March 2018

February 21 -17 2018

Beyond Myself Walk-Through and Conversations

February 20 2018

Conversations on Domestic Worker Migration: Beyond Business as Usual

June 14 2017

Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development in the Philippines launch

May 11 2017

Moving Portraits book launch

January 26 2017

EURA-NET Forum: The Philippines-Europe Migration Corridor

January 12 -13 2017

CHAMPSEA-Wave 2 Meeting

January 09 -12 2017

Exodus seminar on internal migration in Vietnam

December 08 2016

ATE Project meeting

December 05 -06 2016

Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development in the Philippines dialogue

December 02 -03 2016

EURA-NET project conference in Brussels

September 23 -25 2016

Enable Kids Project exchange visit in Hamamatsu City, Japan

August 25 -26 2016

EURA-NET meeting in Beijing

May 21 2016

M&D Café 8

May 15 -18 2016

Enable Kids Project exchange visit in Seoul, Korea

April 04 -05 2016

Refugees and Migration in Europe and Asia

March 30 2016

Enable Kids Project: Manila conference

March 29 2016

Enable Kids Project: Manila exchange visit

March 28 2016

Enable Kids Project meeting

March 18 -20 2016

EURA-NET 5th meeting in Manila

January 23 2016

M&D Café 7

October 26 2015

Three-country project on migrant children grant

February 06 -07 2014

EURA-NET is launched in the Philippines

April 25 -26 2013

Revisiting Theories on International Migration

June 29 -30 2012

Theology Conference

June 10 -11 2010

Transcode Workshop

May 06 -07 2010

MISA Conference on Crisis

January 20 -23 2010

MISA Conference on Data

November 19 -20 2007

Conference on Migration and Development

July 14 -15 2007

Symposium on Faith

January 12 -13 2005

Transnationalism Conference

May 14 -15 1998

The Impact of the Crisis on Migration in Asia

October 01 1995

Women in Migration Conference

October 01 1995

Trade Conference

January 01 1992

Human Rights Conference

News

Dr. Kyung Min Bae, Director of the UP Korea Research Center (UP KRC), shared a copy of One Hundred Years of Korean History in the Philippines.

January 16, 2026

On 10 December 2025, SMC paid a courtesy call to the Philippine Embassy in Belgium and met with H.E. Ambassador Jaime Victor B. Ledda and Third Secretary and Vice-Consul Ma. Filonila Alcaraz-Arguelles.

December 17, 2025

AspirE Project

October 30, 2025

The CHAMPSEA-Philippines Policy Briefs are now available online.

October 3, 2025

Migration Conversations with Dr. Yousef Khalifa Aleghfeli

March 29, 2025

Introducing Link4Skills

October 16, 2024

Former Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC) Director has been appointed as Cardinal

October 7, 2024

Webinar 2 Programme Micro- and Meso-Level Drivers of Asian (RE) Migration to the EU

September 27, 2024

SMC researchers awarded 2nd prize for poster entry on migration aspirations on young Filipinos

July 26, 2024

New IOM-SMC Policy papers are out

September 21, 2022