Fr. Jairo Guidini, CS, is currently the Executive Director of the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), in New York, and he was the Executive Secretary of the Pastoral of Human Mobility in the Peruvian Episcopal Conference. Before leading the SIMN, Fr. Jairo worked as Director of the Casa Beato Juan Bautista Scalabrini in Lima, Peru. Father Jairo has extensive experience working in South America, particularly in Asuncion, Paraguay, as parish priest of the Parish of

Víctor is a specialist in international migration. He got his Bachelor’s Degree from El Colegio de México (COLMEX) in 2000, with a dissertation on the revival of American nativism and the historical patterns of xenophobic reactions in the United States. He also got a MA degree in Political Science from The New School of Social Research, in New York. And he just got his PhD in Political Philosophy at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), with a dissertation on