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International Steering Committee Meeting: Amsterdam, March 30-31, 2000

Meyer Burstein and Rinus Penninx co-chaired the International Steering Committee (ISC) meeting in Amsterdam. The ISC discussed future directions for the Metropolis Project, which include spending increased energies on the subjects of transnational communities, transnational crime, and the forthcoming demographic decline that will significantly affect many developed countries. The committee stressed that the Project will not lose its focus on cities and issues of integration. It will also begin exploring the creation of specific work programs as well as mechanisms by which it can better encourage international comparative research.

The Committee accepted the city of Rotterdam's proposal to host the Sixth International Metropolis Conference in 2001 as well as a proposal from Oslo, Norway for the Seventh International Metropolis Conference in 2002. In addition, a number of inter-conference seminars were announced, details of which will appear in forthcoming Dispatches, the World Bulletin, and on the website.

The next ISC meeting is November 17–18, in Vancouver, immediately following the Fifth International Conference.

Metropolis in the Far East

The International Project Director, Howard Duncan, participated in a series of discussions in Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in April 2000. The purpose of the trip was to raise the involvement of their academics and policy officials in Metropolis, to increase the degree of contact and exchange of information, analysis, and opinion between researchers and policy makers in the three countries and the rest of the Metropolis network, to stimulate international comparative research of policy interest, and to encourage their participation in the upcoming Vancouver conference.

In Hong Kong, Mr. Duncan met officials in the Bureau of Education and Manpower, Housing Bureau, and the Central Policy Unit. He also met with a number of social science researchers at the University of Hong Kong. In Australia, meetings took place with researchers from the University of New South Wales, many of whom are working with members of the Canadian Metropolis Centre in Vancouver (RIIM) on a comparison of the impacts of immigration in Vancouver and Sydney. He later met with officials of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs in Canberra. In New Zealand Mr. Duncan met with officials from the New Zealand Immigration Service and researchers from the University of Auckland, Massey University, and the University of Waikato. He also participated in the "New Directions, New Settlers Conference" in Wellington (see New Zealand below for more details).

Partner Update

The United States

The Carnegie Endowment’s International Migration Policy Program and its various partners hope to provide the building blocks that will allow the Program to speak on the integration issue in its totality, with four projects described in detail on the Carnegie website at http://www.ceip.org/programs. The four projects are expected to last for about three years and address one of the most intractable policy dilemmas facing most advanced industrial societies: how to deal with the long-term cohesion of urban societies where immigration has and continues to transform the make-up of its fabric. Future national policies will be shaped, in part, by the focus on those factors which bear on the economic, social, and civic integration of new arrivals.

A recent publication is From Migrants To Citizens: Membership In A Changing World, edited by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Douglas B. Klusmeyer, which includes contributions by Lowell Barrington, Manuel Becerra Ramirez, Miriam Feldblum, J. Donald Galloway, George Ginsburgs, Jonathan E. Klaaren, Marco Martiniello, Ayelet Shachar, Stephen Castles, and Gianni Zappalà. This book includes nine case studies that investigate immigration and citizenship in Australia, the Baltic States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United States. This collection of essays examines the concrete rules and policies by which states administer citizenship, and highlights similarities and differences in their policies.

The Netherlands

The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) of the University of Amsterdam has put together a bibliography from recently published international scientific literature on Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship in advanced economies. This bibliography—already over 1100 entries—is now unlocked to the public, so that everyone can now profit from this current knowledge. The bibliography will be completed and updated on a regular basis. The URL is http://www.emporium.nl

Visitors of this on-line bibliography are requested to pass on possible supplementary titles et cetera to Jan Rath, e-mail: rath@pscw.uva.nl, internet: http://home.pscw.uva.nl/rath/imment.htm

New Zealand

The New Zealand Immigration Service has a substantial website (www.immigration.govt.nz) with a wide variety of on-line research projects. These include:

• International Migration 1995-1998: A Report on Current Research and a Bibliography
• Experiences of the English Language Bond
• Immigrants in New Zealand: A Study of their Labour Market Outcomes
• Experiences of Recent Business Migrants in New Zealand
• Patterns in the Sponsorship of Social Migrants
• Links Between temprorary Entry to New Zealand and Residence
• Migrant Settlement. A Review of the Literature and its Relevance to New Zealand

Metropolis Events

Fifth International Metropolis Conference

(Vancouver November 13-17, 2000)

Planning for the Fifth International Metropolis Conference is well advanced. The Conference Organization Team expects to have a Preliminary Programme available by early summer. Regular information updates will be posted on the international Metropolis website at www.international.metropolis.net

Plenary Sessions will address a range of issues including:

Building Social, Cultural and Economic Capital (Keynote address: "Immigration, Trust, and Social Order")

Transnational communities and their implications for citizenship and social order: Academics and policy officials from a number of countries will speak to the policy implications of well-established transnational communities for citizenship and allegiance, civic participation, and social order.

Transnational communities and their implications for national and local economies, for business, and for labour: Commentators from different countries—from transnational community "source countries" and from "recipient" countries—will look at the phenomenon of transnationalism from opposite points of view. Speakers will address the views of businessmen who are engaged in transnational economic activity, labour organizations, representatives from various levels of government, and academics.

Creating Opportunity: Growth, Access, and Equity (Keynote address: "The Dynamics of Acceptance – Immigrants and the European Union")

Racism and discrimination: Is Public Policy up to the Challenge? Speakers will represent governmental and non-governmental human rights organizations, and researchers from different continents.

Building Social Capital: Culture and Civic Participation: Speakers will discuss a variety of venues where public policy might effectively foster social capital, including participation in local civic activities and participation in amateur sports. Speakers will also review the effects of mass culture, including those of the broadcast industry, on social capital.

Managing Gateways and Managing Change (Keynote address: "Managing Gateways: The Moral Challenges of a Liberal Democracy")

Migrant Smuggling And Criminal Corporatism: A panel of speakers will examine the transnational smuggling industry, the root causes that shape its profitability and the policy and program context in which it operates. Speakers will include migration experts as well as authorities from law enforcement, from the transportation industry, from non-governmental agencies, and from border authorities.

Migration and The Future of Borders: Wide-scale migration places great stress on national border policies, specially when policies to increase trade and the opening of borders lead to ease of access to developed countries by ever larger numbers of irregular migrants; however, their presence is generally resisted and their entry is seen as not being in accord with perceived national interests. The result is a countervailing pressure and an impetus to re-introduce strict border controls. Speakers from Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and North America representing think tanks, inter-governmental organizations and cross-border organizations involved in the joint management of border regions, such as the Schengen region of Europe will discuss the tension and the future of borders.

Investing in the Future (Keynote address: "Demographic Change and the Coming Global Competition for Immigrants")

Competition for Highly Skilled Workers: Speakers will represent industry, government, including local government economic development leaders, and think tanks. The countries represented will include both those seeking migrants and source countries who are competing for these self-same workers.

Youth and The Second Generation: Trends in Social and Economic Integration Speakers will be educators, social scientists, futurists, and other researchers expert in trends analysis in the area of immigrant youth, specifically regarding socialization practices (sports, the arts, marriage, consumer behaviour), education, psychology, and employment.

As has been the case in the past, the conference will feature a vast array of workshops covering the gamut of issues addressed under the aegis of Metropolis. Proposed workshops are listed below along with the e-mail addresses of their hosts—please contact them for more information on specific sessions. Updates will be posted on the international website.

Proposed Workshops:

• Creating Opportunities for Refugee Integration (abulaban@ualberta.ca)
• Refugee Claimants and Their Labour Market Impact (elizabeth.ruddick@8754bss.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca)

Web News

The volume of material available on the International Website continues to expand. If you are interested in linking your website to the International website, please contact Jean Viel at jv_metro@istar.ca

Products

Journal of International Migration and Integration

The first issue of JIMI has now been published. It contains research articles from Irene Bloemraad, Dirk Hoerder, Harvey Krahn, Tracey Derwing, Marlene Mulder, Lori Wilkinson, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur and Shiva Halli. Policy papers have also been submitted by Gerard Moreau, Frank Sharry and Tim Owen. For more information please contact Humera Ibrahim at jimi@ualberta.ca

New Working Papers from the ESRC Transnational Communities Project

The latest working papers produced by the ESRC Transnational Communities Project include:

Alisdair Rogers, Traces Volume 2

Ulf Hannerz Flows, boundaries and hybrids: keywords in transnational anthropology

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:

Kangqing Zhang Urban Secondary Citizens: Low-Skill Temporary Workers-The Case of Shanghai

Trinidad L. Vicente Immigrants to Spain

Steven Weeks Temporary Business Entry Arrangements

B. Lindsay Lowell Technology Companies and U.S. Immigration Policy: Hiring Foreign Workers

Philip Martin Trade and Migration: The Mexico-US Experience

Allison Young The GATS and the Mobility of Service Suppliers

David Greenhill, Jorge Aceytuno Managed Migration and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program,

Bradley Pascoe, Beverly Davis Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program: A New Design

New Working Papers from the Montreal Centre of Excellence

Recent papers from the Montreal Centre, available from metropolis@ere.umontreal.ca, are

Sylvie Paré, Danielle Juteau, Usages linguistiques des entrepreneurs ethniques : portrait des groupes immigrants et natifs de la deuxième ou troisième génération

Marie Mc Andrew, Calvin Veltman; Francine Lemire, Josefina Rossell, Concentration ethnique et usages linguistiques en milieu scolaire

Christopher McAll, Véronique Beaudouin; Nathalie Freitag, Le milieu communautaire et l’approche intégrée en francisation : un modèle à reconnaître

Johanne Charbonneau, Francine Dansereau, Michèle Vatz-Laaroussi, Analyse des processus de jumelage entre familles immigrantes et accueillantes au Québec

Vania Jimenez, Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez, Margot Loiselle-Léonard, Jacques Marleau, Bilan des écrits du Québec sur les services de santé et les services sociaux

New Working Papers from the Toronto Centre of Excellence (CERIS)

Recent papers from the Toronto Centre include:

Barbara Burnaby, Carl James, and Sheri Regier The Role of Education in Integrating Diversity in the Greater Toronto Area.

Kenise Murphy Kilbride, A Review of the Literature on the Human, Social, and Cultural Capital of Immigrant Children and Their Families with Implications for Teacher Education

Mohammad Qadeer, The Base of Chinese and South Asian Merchants’ Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Enclaves

Robert Murdie, Carlos Teixeira Toward a Comfortable Neighbourhood and Appropriate Housing: Immigrant Experience in Toronto

Harold Troper, History of Immigration since the Second World War: From Toronto "The Good" to Toronto "The World in a City"

CERIS Working Papers can be ordered for $5.00 each. For further information and a list of prevously-published Working Papers contact the CERIS office.

Recent Publications from the Prairie Centre for Excellence (PCERII)

Recent papers from the Prairie Centre include:

Archibald, J., ed. Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory

Driedger, L. and S. Halli. Race and Racism: Canadian Challenge 2000

Gerald Friesen,. The West: Regional Ambitions, National Debate, Global Age, Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada

Madeline Kalbach, and Warren Kalbach. Perspectives on Ethnicity in Canada: A Reader.

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Conference on Families and Labour Markets
(Vancouver, Canada June 1-2, 2000)
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Third National Policy History Conference
Bowling Green, Ohio June 1-3, 2000)
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Canadian Economics Association Conference
(Vancouver, Canada June 1-4, 2000)
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Global Migration: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice
(Vancouver June 1-3, 2000)
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Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
(Edmonton May 24-June 3, 2000)
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Fifth Global Conference on Health Promotion
(Mexico City June 5-9, 2000)
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Second Conference on the Economic Embeddedness of Immigrant Enterprises
(Jerusalem June 18-20, 2000)
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Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Family Studies
(Uppsala, Sweden June 20-23, 2000)
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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)
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Third Annual Conference on Global Trade Analysis
(Melbourne June 28-30, 2000)
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Globalization, Culture and Everyday Life
(Manchester, U.K. July 5-7, 2000)

Contributions des émigrantes européenes au Canada
(Nantes, France July 6-8, 2000)
francoise.lejeune@humana.univ-nantes.fr

32^nd Annual International Conference Rising Tide: Community Development for a Changing World
(Saint John, Canada July 23-26, 2000)
glister@mta.ca

18^th World Congress of Political Science
(Quebec August 1-6, 2000)
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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)
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Knowledge, Power, Gender: Philosophy and the Future of the Female Condition
(Zurich, Switzerland October 4-8, 2000)
http://www.iaph.org/zurich2000.htm

3^rd 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

22^nd 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)
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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
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Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS)
Theme: Organizing Knowledge Economies and Societies
(Sydney, Australia December 14-15, 2000)
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Exploring Canadian Identities
(Torun, Poland April 20-22, 2001)
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Nicholas Copernicus University
+48 56 622-7710

Call for Papers/Proposals

Exploring Canadian Identities (Torun, Poland April 20-22, 2001)

Paper proposals and c.v. should be faxed to organizers by November 1, 2000 at +48 56 622-7710.

The End of the Nation State? A Challenge for Europe's Regions (Dundee, UK September 28-30, 2001)

Proposals for papers, with one page abstract should be faxed by April 1, 2001, to Drs. G. Lazaridis and A. Wright at +44 1382 344675.

Strangers and Citizens: Challenges for European Governance, Identity and Citizenship (Dundee, UK March 17-19, 2001)

Proposals for papers, with one page abstract, should be faxed to Dr. G. Lazaridis by November 1, 2000 at +44 1382 344675.