The migratory phenomenon of the last decades, commented the archbishop of Zagreb, is "the greatest human movement ever recorded in history", involving 200 million people since the Sixties to date. "This fact he pointed out inevitably affects the social and economic structures of our societies, especially in terms of social composition, different religions and different cultures". Card. Bozanic highlighted "the tendency to consider immigration a problem, creating fears and alarms in society". "We speak restrictively he stated of ‘emigrants’ or ‘immigrants’ without looking at the origin, culture or faith of these people". So the workshop will tackle the migratory phenomenon as a whole: the migratory policies of the European and African governments, the responses of the Churches, the situation of refugees, immigrant workers and students, "in the awareness that these clichés do not sum up the variety and complexity of the human and motivational case histories of all emigrants", stated the deputy president of Ccee. At the end, a joint message addressed to the Church in Europe and Africa will be adopted.” “
