Beyond the ethnic niche: migrant entrepreneurship between innovation, digital and new skills. The results of the HUMUS E.T.

The WWELL Centre is pleased to announce that H.E. Rev.ma Msgr. Corrado Lorefice, Archbishop of Palermo, has been elected by the General Assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference to lead the Episcopal Commission for Migration and the Migrantes Foundation, succeeding Monsignor Gian Carlo Perego, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio. Msgr. Lorefice, among others, will be among the speakers at the final round table of the next edition of the Summer School "Human Mobility and Global Justice", which will take place in Palermo on August 27 at the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily "St. John the Evangelist" and which will be entitled "Christian identity in a Europe in an identity crisis". For further information and for the complete program, please consult the page of the WWELL Center website dedicated to the Summer School: https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/wwell/it/Summer-schools/mobilita-umana-giustizia-globale.html. At the following link, however, the news of the appointment published in Vatican News: https://bit.ly/3RNWNqO

Laura Zanfrini, Director of the WWELL Center, will speak as a speaker next Saturday, August 1st as part of the "Mediterranean Dialogues. Meetings open to the city on..." – Migrations section – on the occasion of the "National Meeting of Diocesan Presidencies and Regional Delegations" entitled "Mediterranean Horizons. Living fraternity for a culture of dialogue", which will take place in Bari from 30 July to 2 August. For further details and information on registration, please visit the Italian Catholic Action website at the following link: https://azionecattolica.it/incontri/orizzonti-mediterranei-abitare-la-fraternita-per-una-cultura-del-dialogo/

In yesterday's issue, Sunday, July 12, of "la Repubblica" there is an interview with Laura Zanfrini, Director of the WWELL Center, entitled "The exploitation of workers is a virus, to eradicate it it is not enough just to punish", edited by Z. Dazzi. Link to the article: https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026/07/12/news/sfruttamento_lavoratori_sociologa_zanfrini_intervista-425465532/