SIMN’s V Forum, titled “Integration: Towards a Peaceful and Democratic Coexistence”, was held on June 11 and 12 in Berlin, Germany, at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung headquarters. SIMN has held such forums annually since 2009, when the first forum was developed and held in Antigua, Guatemala. These meetings have been key to stimulating high level dialogue and to defining concrete actions within the multifaceted links between migration and pacific coexistence between host communities and migrants. Each Forum has had

New York, June 27, 2014, SIMN has just published a new book, “International Migration, U.S. Immigration Law and Civil Society: From the Pre-Colonial Era to the 113th Congress,” which analyzes trendsin migration, migration policies and the role of civil society in the formulation of said policies, from the pre-colonial period to the present. The book is the tenth volume in a series of SIMN publications and reports on governance of migration in the Americas. In line with reports