SMC has a new home
SMC moved to a new location in early June 2011. Our new contact details are as follows:
40 Matapat St., Barangay Pinyahan,
Quezon City 1100, Philippines
Tel (632) 4367690; 4367915
Fax: (632) 4347692
Highlights from CHAMPSEA-Philippines
SMC organized two forums to present the highlights of the Philippine component of the "Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia" research project. The three-year study (2008-2010) sought to examine the impact of parental migration on young children in the region.
The three other participating countries are Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. The forum in Metro Manila was held at Balay Kalinaw, University of the Philippines, on 23 May 2011.
A second forum was conducted in San Pablo City, Laguna, on 3 June 2011, in cooperation with San Pablo Colleges. The Philippine report, based on the 2008 survey, In the Wake of Parental Migration: Health and Well-being Impacts on Filipino Children, and selected findings in Bulacan and Laguna, the research sites, were distributed during the forums.
Ongoing research projects
In cooperation with UNICEF, SMC is currently conducting a research project on Youth, Employment and Migration in the Philippines.
SMC is coordinating a research project on the pre-departure orientation programs for migrants in three countries: Indonesia, the Philippines and Nepal. The project is supported by Open Society Foundations.
Recent publications
In cooperation with the Philippine Institute for Developlment Studies, SMC completed an assessment of the impact of policies and regulations on transnational domestic workers. A copy of the full report is available at http://dirp4.pids.gov.ph/ris/dps/pidsdps1112.pdf.
The EU-funded Migrants' Associations and Philippine Institutions for Development (MAPID) Project was concluded in December 2010. Aside from the training materials developed in the Philippines, Italy and Spain, the MAPID Project also produced three publications:.
Asis, Maruja M.B., Fabio Baggio, Jose Maria Palabrica and Golda Myra Roma (eds.), Transnational Bridges: Migration, Development and Solidarity in the Philippines. Manila: Scalabrini Migration Center and Commission on Filipinos Overseas, 2010.
Baggio, Fabio (ed.), Brick by Brick: Building Cooperation between the Philippines and Overseas Filipinos. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center, 2010.
Asis, Maruja M.B. (ed.), Minding the Gaps: Migration, Development and Governance in the Philippines. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center (online), 2011.
