The Scalabrinian Center for Migration Studies has defined the Protagonism of Migrants and Refugees as the core of its Research Program, which is the guiding thematic and methodological principle for the elaboration and execution of research and studies.

The adoption of a hard core contributes to greater specificity and favors the rigor and quality of the processes and results that CSEM sets out to achieve, given the wide range of possibilities that migration studies encompass, as well as presupposing continuity over time and in the study of a topic of interest.

It is anchored in the promotion and defense of the life and human dignity of people in situations of mobility, their capacity for resilience, resistance and influence, at the micro and macro-structural levels. It also includes agency of the subjects, their capacity and potential to act, influence and transform facts and meanings, interpret challenges and make decisions for themselves and their loved ones, and participate in the processes of the societies they become part of.

The adoption of the Hard Core for the Protagonism of Migrants and Refugees follows conceptually and strategically the institutional option that governs the CSEM, which is the Charism of the congregation of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters (MSCS), which has migrants and refugees, especially those experiencing vulnerability, as its focus of action and interest.

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