El Colegio de la Frontera Norte –leading research seminar on the northern border of Mexico established the Permanent Seminar on International Migration (Sepmig) in November 1998, with the collaboration of El Colegio de México and the Mexican Society of Demography, with subsequent collaboration from 2004 onwards of the Organization Without Borders. The aim of the seminar is to provide an international forum for discussion and dissemination of research on international migration. From 1998 to December 2014, 134 sessions were held with a total of 267 speakers attended by 3445 attendees at the headquarters of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and, in the last eight years, 2833 attendees have attended via videoconference and another 2799 by Internet. At present, the Sepmig has become a fundamental reference for academics and other specialists interested in the field of international migrations. The Sepmig has been defined as a space for the presentation of the advances of research on international migrations in the world. A great number of lecturers have been invited from Mexico, the United States, Europe (Spain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom) and many Latin American institutions (Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Peru) have participated.
