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Dispatches
January 15, 2000
(Vol. 1 No. 1)
Partner Update
Metropolis Events
Web News
Products
Related Initiatives
Related Events
Calls for Papers / Proposals
Dispatches focuses on providing timely information (bimonthly) concentrating
on results, upcoming events, and updates on various experiments conducted by
the international Metropolis partners. It is your communications device, please
make use of it. To have information placed in Dispatches, or to comment on content or structure, please contact John Biles at +1 819 997-5791 (john_biles@pch.gc.ca).
Partner Update
The United States
The Migration Policy Group of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a variety of communication devices for injecting research into the policy process. One of these vehicles is the Research Perspectives on Migration. This newsletter strives to synthesize the best research on current immigration issues in a timely and accessible manner. Topics covered to date include:
- Immigrants and Welfare
- Immigrant Entrepreneurship
- Immigrant Voting
- 1996 Immigration Law
- Immigration and the Justice System
- Coming of Age in Immigrant America
- Tightening Controls and Changing Flows
Research Perspectives on Migration can be found on the Carnegie website at
http://www.ceip.org/programs/migrat/migrpm.htm
The Netherlands
Recently elected co-chair, Rinus Penninx, of the University of Amsterdam has been on a tour to meet with members of the International Steering Committee for Metropolis. His tour includes:
- A presentation at the Soci-Nova, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, January 18th, 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal
- A keynote lecture entitled "Ethnic minorities in Europe: Policies of diversity and diversity of policies" at the conference `Ethnic Minorities in Europe: Strategy 2000', Birmingham 17-19 February 2000
More information can be obtained on these activities by contacting Rinus at penninx@pscw.uva.nl
A ListServe focusing on Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship run by the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam is available to all who are interested. It covers upcoming events, recently published material or press articles on entrepreneurship. Those interested in subscribing should check the web at http://home.pscw.uva.nl/rath/imment/listserv.htm
Canada
The Canadian Project Team is heavily involved in planning the Fifth International Metropolis Conference in Vancouver November 13-17, 2000. In addition to this, the Team is working to develop learning proposals for effective transfer of research into the policy processes. For more information on the Vancouver Conference please contact Howard Duncan (howard.duncan@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca) or for more information on the learning proposals, please contact Katherine Pestieau (katherine.pestieau@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca).
United Kingdom
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Transnational Communities Programme headed by Steven Vertovec of Oxford University issues its Transcomm News bulletin quarterly. It provides an update on projects underway in the network, recent publications, upcoming conference and other valuable information. If you would like to be placed on the mailing list please contact Anna Winton at anna.winton@anthro.ox.ac.uk or consult the website at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk
Metropolis Events
International Symposium on Migration Health
This Metropolis sponsored event took place December 6 and 7 in Montebello, Quebec. The participants came from Australia, Canada, Japan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Chaired by Dr. Brian Gushulak of the International Organization for Migration's Geneva headquarters, this high level gathering discussed the implications of migration health trends for effective migration health policies of the future. The symposium was followed by a related workshop at the Fourth International Metropolis Conference in Washington on December 8. For more information, please contact
Trong Nguyen at trong_nguyen@hc-sc.gc.ca
Urban Seminars
In cooperation with the Urban Forum and with the support of Canadian Heritage, the Metropolis Project Team is developing a series of seminars that will: a) examine how cities are being transformed by growing diversity; b) assess the importance of this transformation for urban planning and economic development; and c) explore how cities and city planners should respond to these changes in order to produce a desirable multicultural environment.
The four Cities involved (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver) are contributing with in-kind support and ideas. In Toronto, the seminar is being organized in cooperation with the Urban Studies Programme at York University and will take place on February 15th. Montreal will take place March 20, Ottawa March 21, and Vancouver March 27th.
For information, contact Jean Viel: jv_metro@istar.ca
Fourth International Metropolis Conference
(Washington D.C., December 8-11, 1999)
The Fourth International Metropolis Conference attracted over 400 senior policy makers, researchers and NGOs to a four day event at the Georgetown University Conference Centre in Washington D.C. The plenary sessions and the thirty tightly focused workshops led to intense policy-research discussions, plans for collaborative projects, and a great deal of international networking activity. The results of this event are expected to contribute to an even more productive event next November at the Fifth International Metropolis Conference to be held in Vancouver (November 13-17, 2000).
Please watch the international Metropolis website for the conference proceedings, which should begin to appear in early January.
Fourth National Metropolis Conference
(Toronto, Canada March 22-25, 2000)
The Toronto Centre of Excellence is hosting the Fourth National Metropolis Conference in Toronto from March 22 to 25, 2000 at the Metropolitan Hotel. The conference theme is "Working Together for the Future: Partnerships in Immigration Research and Policy." The three plenaries and many workshops will address issues and themes such as settlement needs of children and youth, immigrant and refugee women, social justice, racism and equity, research partnerships, and the contribution of immigration to the growth of high technology. The preliminary program and registration form are posted on the CERIS site at http://www.ceris.metropolis.net For more information, please contact Marie Truelove or Ted Richmond through the CERIS Toronto office at ceris.office@utoronto.ca
REGISTER EARLY as space is limited!
Fifth International Metropolis Conference
(Vancouver November 13-17, 2000)
Building on the experiences of the first four conferences in Milan (1996), Copenhagen (1997), Israel (1998), and Washington D.C. (1999), the Vancouver conference will aim to further intensify discussions amongst senior policy-makers, leading academics, and non-governmental actors in the fields of immigration and diversity through their participation in interactive plenary sessions and highly-focused, results-oriented workshops.
The themes of the conference are:
- Investing in the Future: The Changing Face of Youth
- Managing Gateways and Managing Change
- Building Social, Cultural and Economic Capital: The Case for Migration
- Creating Opportunity: Growth, Access and Equity
Given the exponential increase in the number of workshop proposals received for the Fourth International Metropolis Conference, this year we will have a formal competition for the 36 four hour workshop sessions available for the Fifth International Metropolis Conference.
Proposals submitted will be considered for adjudication if they are submitted no later than Friday March 17, 2000. The call for workshop proposals and the conference announcement can be found on the International Metropolis web site at www.international.metropolis.net)
Web News
The Metropolis International network is impressive and the volume of material available on the international Metropolis website grows quickly. The "Partners" icon on the site quickly links you to websites with enormous amount of information gathered from around the world.
At present we are trying to expand the linkages with related initiatives. If you are interested in being linked to the Metropolis international website please contact international Project Director, Howard Duncan at howard.duncan@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.caProducts
Proceedings from Third National Metropolis Conference
Proceedings from the conference held in Vancouver in January 1999 are now available from the Metropolis Project Team (dominique.groulx@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca
) or from the Vancouver Centre (riim@sfu.ca). They will also be available on the Metropolis website shortly.
Journal of International Migration and Integration
The first issue of the Journal of International Migration and Integration will appear in March 2000. The international editors are calling for research papers, including ones exploring questions of public policy. For more information call +1 780-492-0635 or email jimi@ualberta.ca.
New Working Papers from the ESRC Transnational Communities Project
The latest working papers produced by the ESRC Transnational Communities Project include:
Glenn Morgan Transnational communities and business systems
Thomas Hylland Eriksen Tu dinnum pu vini kreol: The Maritian creole and the concept of creolization
Monroe E. Price Satellite broadcasting as trade routes in the sky
Susan Pattie Longing and belonging: issues of homeland in the Armenian diaspora
Paul Lubeck and Kyle Eischen Silicon islands and silicon "valles": informational networks and regional development strategies in an era of globalization
All of the working papers are available at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk
New Working Papers from the Vancouver Centre of Excellence
The latest working papers produced by the Vancouver Centre, available on the Metropolis website or at riim@sfu.ca, include:
Stefan M. Golder Lessons from the Swiss migration experience: an empirical analysis of the employment performance
B. Lindsay Lowell Skilled temporary and permanent immigrants in the United States
Thomas Straubhaar Experience with Temporary Workers: Some Evidence from Selected European Countries
Don DeVoretz Malaysian Immigration Issues: An Economic Perspective
Zeev Rosenhek Migration Regimes, Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Exclsuion and Inclusion: Migrant Workers in the Israeli Welfare State
Don J. DeVoretz Temporary Canadian Migration: Quo Vadis?
Don DeVoretz Immigrants and Public Finance Transfers: Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal
John E. Hayfron A Double Cohort Analysis of Residential Overcrowding Among Immigrants in Norway
Diane Dagenais, Catherine Berron A Case Study of Mulitilingualism and Education Choices in Immigrant Families
Noah Lewin-Epstein, Moshe Semyonov Migration, Ethnicity and Inequality in Homeownership
Carl Mosk Convergence and Divergence in the Asia-Pacific: Economic and Demographic Integration between Asia and Pacific Canada
New Working Papers from the Montreal Centre of Excellence
Johanne Charbonneau, Francine Dansereau, Michèle Vatz-Laaroussi Analyse des processus de jumelage entre familles immigrantes et accueillantes au Québec
Christopher McAll, Véronique Baudouin and Nathalie Freitag Le milieu communautaire et l'approche intégrée en francisation: un modèle à reconnaître
This paper is available on the website or from metropolis@ere.umontreal.ca
Discussion Papers from Population Studies Centre
R. Bedford, E. Ho and R. Skeldon The Asian Financial Crisis and Migration: Perspectives From the Asian Region and New Zealand
J. Lidgard, E. Ho, Y-Y Chen, J Goodwin and R. Bedford Immigrants from Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong in New Zealand in the mid-1990s: Macro and Micro Perspectives
J. Lidgard, R. Bedford and J. Goodwin International Migration from Northeast Asia and Population Change in New Zealand, 1986-1996
J. Lidgard, R. Bedford and J. Goodwin Transformations in New Zealand’s International Migration System: 1981-1996
Limited copies of the Discussion Paper Series are available on a first-come first-served basis from the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. To obtain copies please contact demogsec@waikato.ac.nz or to obtain more information on the Centre please consult the website at http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/popn/index
Related Initiatives
Statistics Canada Conference
Statistics Canada holds an annual economic conference to promote the exchange of empirical research among the business, government, research and labour communities. This year’s conference will be held May 15-16, 2000 in Ottawa. It is entitled "Expanding Horizons: Canada in an International Context." For more information, please contact Jocelyne Lepage at lepajoc@statcan.ca
New Web Journal from UNESCO MOST
The inaugural issue of the MOST journal on Cultural Pluralism has been posted on the internet at http://www.unesco.org/most/most1.htm#journal Its focus is on "Exploring Religious Pluralism." To join the MOST-RELIGION mailing list, please send a message to majordomo@unesco.org with "subscribe most-religion" in the body of the message.
Economic Sociology: European Electronic Newsletter
This electronic bulletin was developed out of the annual meeting of the European Sociological Association in Amsterdam in 1999. Its goal is to encourage collaboration and interaction between people who are interested in economic sociology in Europe. Thus far two editions of the newsletter are available at http://www.siswo.uva.nl/ES/index.html
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
This society was founded in 1965 to promote the study of the history of immigration in Canada and the United States. It publishes the quarterly Journal of American Ethnic History and the semiannual Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter. For more information on this society please consult http://www.balchinstitute.org/iehs/
Working Papers of Centre for Demography and Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Centre for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has an excellent working paper series posted on its website at http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/ Some of the most interesting papers in the series include:
Lincoln Quillian Migration and the Maintenance of Racial Segregation
Paula Fomby Determinants of the Use of Public Services by Mexican Immigrants Travelling Alone and with Family Members
Robert D Mare Differential Fertility, Intergenerational Educational Mobility, and Racial Inequality
Paula Fomby Bringing the Household Into the Population and Environment Debate: The Environmental Effects of Timing of Migration According to the Household Life Cycle
Ann D. Bagchi Ties and Opportunities: The Effects of Legislative, Personal, and Economic Conditions on the Development of Migrant Networks Among Professionals
Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni and Katherine M. Donato Migradollars and Mortality: The Effects of Migration on Infant Survival in Mexico
Wendy Y. Carter The Effects of Changing Family Structures on Higher Education for Black and White American Cohorts: 1908-1969
Ann D. Bagchi Community Ties: The Importance of Co-Ethnics in Settlement Decisions Among Indian and Filipino Professionals Immigrating to the United States
Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni Reframing the Migration Question: An Empirical Analysis of Men, Women, and Gender in Mexico
Karen C. Swallen Mortality and Nativity: A Consideration of Race, Ethnicity and Age at Time of Immigration
Franklin D. Wilson and Roger B. Hammer Ethnic Residential Segregation and Its Consequences
Franklin D. Wilson Ethnic Concentrations and Labor Market Opportunities
Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship in European Cities (MPMC)
The MPMC, a UNESCO-MOST project, aims to examine active citizenship of minorities in 17 European cities. It is perhaps the largest scale project on political participation of immigrants and minorities underway at present. In particular it focuses on the "channels of activation and mobilisation" in European cities. The research team is led by Marco Martiniello (Liege), Metropolis co-chair Rinus Penninx (Amsterdam) and Steven Vertovec (Oxford). Progress on the project can be followe via the regularly issued newsletter. For more information please contact Karen Kraal at kraal@pscw.uva.nl or consult the website at www.pscw.uva.nl/imes/
Centre for Immigration Studies Publications
The Centre has recently released several studies:
Reconsidering Immigrant Entrepreneurship of Self-Employment Among Natives and the Foreign-Born
(http://www.cis.org/selfemployment/)
David Simcox Inalienable Identification: Key to Halting Illegal Employment"
(http://www.cis.org/back100.pdf)
Cindy Hahamovitch The Politics of Labour Scarcity: Expediency and the Birth of the Agricultural ‘Guestworkers’ Program
(http://www.cis.org/back1299.pdf)
George Borjas The Top Ten Symptoms of Immigration
(http://www.cis.org/back1199.pdf)
Steven Camarota and Leon Bouvier The Impact of New Americans: A Review and Analysis of the National Research Council’s ‘The New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration’
(http://www.cis.org/combinednrc.pdf)
Related Events
Georgia Political Science Association
(Hilton Head Island, South Carolina February 25-26, 2000)
mbaun@valdosta.edu
International Transdisciplinarity Conference
(Zurich, Switzerland February 27-March 1, 2000)
http://www.snf.ch/transdisciplinarity/home.html
The 49th International Atlantic Economic Conference
(Munich, Germany March 14-21, 2000)
http://www.iaes.org/conferences
The Population Association of America
(Los Angeles March 23-25, 2000)
http://wwww.popassoc.org
Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference
(Toronto March 25-27, 2000)
Themes: Emergent diasporas, rights to identities, ethnic challenges to statecraft,
reconfiguring institutional structures, and defining community at the millennium.
e-mail CESA 2000 Secretariat c/o Multicultural History Society of Ontario mhso.mail@utoronto.ca
Centre for Migration Studies Annual Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy
(Washington D.C. March 30-31, 2000)
www.cmsny.org
Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora
(New Delhi April 8-10, 2000)
anna.winton@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Ethnic Neighbourhoods in European Cities: Mentrepreneurship, Employment and Social Order
(Cologne, Germany April 6-9, 2000)
http://www.cemes.org
Nation Building: 25th Annual Conference of British Association of Canadian Studies
(Edinburgh, Scotland April 11-14, 2000)
jodie.robson@ed.ac.uk
Generations: Women, Age and Difference
(Newcastle, U.K. April 15, 2000)
rosemary.white@unn.ac.uk
Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Politics in Transnational Perspective
(Warwick, U.K. April 27-29, 2000)
anna.winton@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Canadian Anthropology Association
(Calgary May 4-7, 2000)
http://www.ss.ucalgary.ca/casca/default.html
New African Diasporas
(London May 5, 2000)
kkoser@geography.ucl.ac.uk
1st Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and the Academy in the New Millenium
(San Bernardino, California May 11, 2000)
Theme: Building Bridges to the Future: Connecting the Academy to the Entrepreneurial Community in the New Millennium
http://www.cpba.csusb.edu/iece
Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland
(Killiney, Ireland May 12-14, 2000)
http://www.tcd.ie/French/parrisjackson/html
Migration and Development: Second Generation Immigrants and the Transition to Ethnic Minorities
(Italy May 12-17,2000)
http://www.esf.org/euresco
Congrès de l’association française pour l’avancement des sciences (Acfas)
(Montréal May 15-19, 2000)
http://www.acfas.ca
International Conference on Post-Soviet Youth: A Comparative Study
(Jerusalem May 22-23, 2000)
msrussia@mscc.huji.ac.il
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
(Edmonton, Canada May 24-31, 2000)
http://www.hssfc.ca
Conference on Families and Labour Markets
(Vancouver, Canada June 1-2, 2000)
http://cerf.mcmaster.ca/conferences/families
Third National Policy History Conference
Bowling Green, Ohio June 1-3, 2000)
Drowney@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Canadian Economics Association Conference
(Vancouver, Canada June 1-4, 2000)
http://www.economics.ca/2000/
Global Migration: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice
(Vancouver June 1-3, 2000)
hellen.allen@ubc.ca
Fifth Global Conference on Health Promotion
(Mexico City June 5-9, 2000)
http://www.who.int/hpr/hpr/conference/fifth/index.html
Second Conference on the Economic Embeddedness of Immigrant Enterprises
(Jerusalem June 18-20, 2000)
http://home.pscw.uva.nl/rath
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Family Studies
(Uppsala, Sweden June 20-23, 2000)
jan.trost@soc.uu.se
Crossroads in Cultural Studies
(Birmingham, U.K. June 21-25, 2000)
crossroads@css.bham.ac.uk
International Cultural Research Congress Xi’an 2000
(Xi’an, China June 28-July 3, 2000)
sgoski@edc.gov.ab.ca
Third Annual Conference on Global Trade Analysis
(Melbourne June 28-30, 2000)
http://www.mteliza.edu.au/services/conferences/index.html
Contributions des émigrantes européenes au Canada
(Nantes, France July 6-8, 2000)
francoise.lejeune@humana.univ-nantes.fr
32nd Annual International Conference Rising Tide: Community Development for a Changing World
(Saint John, Canada July 23-26, 2000)
glister@mta.ca
18th World Congress of Political Science
(Quebec August 1-6, 2000)
http://www.ucd.ie/~ipsa/congress.html
Transnational Communities in the Asia-Pacific Region: Comparative Perspectives
(Singapore August 7-8, 2000)
caskkm@nus.edu.sg
European Cities: Networks and Crossroads
(Berlin, Germany August 31-September 2, 2000)
d.rowe@roehampton.ac.uk
Knowledge, Power, Gender: Philosophy and the Future of the Female Condition
(Zurich, Switzerland October 4-8, 2000)
http://www.iaph.org/zurich2000.htm
3rd Intenational Business and Economics Conference
(Wisconsin October 6-7, 2000)
Themes include Multiculturalism in the workplace
http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/docs/bulletins/interbusconf.html
22nd Associatioon for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference
(Seattle, November 2-4, 2000)
Theme: Doing and Using Public Policy Analysis and Management Research
Http://www.Appam.org
Self-Employment, Gender and Migration,
(Wiesbaden-Naurod, Germany, November 11-16, 2000)
http://www.esf.org/euresco
Race, Ethnicity and Migration: The United States in Global Context
(Minnesota U.S.A., November 16-18, 2000)
rem@tc.umn.edu
era21
(Vancouver, November 17-20, 2000)
Themes: Anti-Racism, Hate Crime, Immigration, Racism
Era21@post.queensu.ca
Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS)
Theme: Organizing Knowledge Economies and Societies
(Sydney, Australia December 14-15, 2000)
http://www.gsm.mq.edu.au/ANZAM/
Call for Papers/Proposals
Call for Papers for Canadian Economic Association Annual Meeting (June 1-4 Vancouver, Canada)
Proposals must be submitted no later than March 1, 2000. For more information please see http://www.economics.ca/2000/
Call for Papers for era21 Conference
(Vancouver, November 17-20, 2000)
Themes: Anti-Racism, Hate Crime, Immigration, Racism
Era21@post.queensu.
Abstracts to be sent to Audrey Kobayashi (kobayashi@post.queensu.ca) no later than March 15, 2000
Call for Papers for the 3rd International Business and Economics Conference
(Wisconsin October 6-7, 2000)
Themes include Multiculturalism in the workplace. Papers to be sent to Marc von der Ruhr ( vondma@mail.snc.edu) no later than March 17, 2000.
Call for Papers for Conference of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration
(Johannesburg, South Africa January 8-11, 2001
Theme: The Refugee Convention at 50
Proposals to be sent to Joanne van Selm (IASFM@pscw.uva.nl) by April 1, 2000
Call for Papers for Diasporas and Transnational Identities Conference
(London, Ontario October 19-22, 2000)
Deadline for paper submissions is April 30, 2000. Proposals to be sent to Mireya Folch-Serra at dmitriev@julian.uwo.ca
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