The Care and Reception of Refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
4 December 2025. From 18:30 | Conference | Spanish | IEMed
In a crucial moment for the future of Europe, this lecture invites us to look at migration and refuge from Mediterranean’s heart, where stories of pain, hope and hospitality intersect. Beyond the political debate on the effects and implementation of the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum, hospitality is presented as an ethical and political alternative to a “fortress Europe”. This proposal draws on JRS’s extensive experience in welcoming and supporting migrant and refugee communities that JRS develops across Europe and on both shores of the Mediterranean, accompanying more than 200,000 people annually in 23 countries and 240 locations
Alberto Ares Mateos holds a PhD in International Migration and Development Cooperation from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Graduated in Economics and Business from the University of Valladolid, he specialized in Social Ethics by completing a degree in Sacred Theology at Boston College.
In addition to his work as an academic, in areas such as migration, consumption and social integration, he has served as acting director of the Migration Commission of the Spanish Episcopal Conference and as director of several centres of the SJM Spain, the Jesuit Refugee Service, the University Institute for Migration Studies, as well as Delegate of the Social Sector of the Jesuits in Spain.
Likewise, he collaborates in various research projects, is a member of the Advisory Committee of various academic journals and carries out advisory work on CONFER and the National Network “Migrantes Con Derechos”. With an extensive bibliography, he is the author of A segregated rootedness: the integration pattern of the global south immigration in Spain and its causes. Globalizations (Á. Iglesias Martínez and A. Rúa Vieites, 2025)
Within the framework of the Aula Mediterrània lecture series. Co-organised with the Master’s Degree in Contemporary Migrations, Rights and Social Cohesion, UAB/UB.
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