Dispatches
from Metropolis International
May - July, 2002
(Vol. 3 Nos. 3-4)

Partner Update
Metropolis Events
Products
Recent Publications
Related Initiatives
Related Events
Calls for Papers/Proposals
Accolades

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Partner Update

APMRN
The Asia Pacific Migration research Network has produced its 9th working paper: Migration Research and Policy: Landscape Case Studies of Australia, the Philippines and Thailand by Robyn Iredale, Tim Turpin, Charles Hawksley, Stella Go, Supaphan Kanchai and Yee May Kaung. More information can be found at: http://www.capstrans.edu.au/apmrn

Canada
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
On June 28, Canada implemented its new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. See http://www.cic.gc.ca for further information.

Status of Women Canada
Status of Women Canada makes a wide range of policy-research papers available on their website http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca Papers include:
"Building Capacity: Enhancing Women's Economic Participation Through Housing"
"Canada: The New Frontier for Filipino Mail-Order Brides"
"Housing Policy Options for Women Living in Urban Poverty: An Action Research Project in Three Canadian Cities"
"Mental Health Promotion Among Newcomer Female Youth: Post-Migration Experiences and Self-Esteem"
"Migrant Sex Workers from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Canadian Case"
"Sponsorship . . . For Better or For Worse: The Impact of Sponsorship on the Equality Rights of Immigrant Women"
"Trafficking in Women in Canada: A Critical Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing Immigrant Live-in Caregivers and Mail-order Brides"

Canadian Heritage
Strategic Research and Analysis, Department of Canadian Heritage has conducted a research program on social cohesion since the mid 1990s. Research papers produced include:

Sharon M, Jeannotte "Cultural Symbiosis: Cultural Participation and Cohesive Communities"
Bruce Jamieson "Trade Liberalization: Culture, Identity and Social Cohesion"
Greg Baeker "Citizens Versus Consumers: Connections to What?"
Greg Baeker and Carol Tator "Shifting Images: A Forum on the Arts in a Pluralistic New Millennium, Mapping the Terrain of Cultural Pluralism and the Arts"
Sharon M. Jeannotte "Social Cohesion Around the World: An International Comparison of Definitions and Issues"
Andrew Jackson et. al. "Social Cohesion in Canada: Possible Indicators - Highlights"
Amanda Aizlewood "Social Cohesion Indicators Workshop Project"
John F. Helliwell "Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and canadian Provinces"
Jane Friesen "Communities and Economic Prosperity: Exploring the Links"
Krishna Pendakur "Absolute Consumption Poverty in Canada 1969 to 1996"
Paul Bernard "Social Cohesion: A Dialectical Critique of a Quasi-concept?"
Frances Woolley "Social Cohesion and Voluntary Activity: Making Connections"

If you would like to receive copies of these or other studies contact sradoc_docras@pch.gc.ca

South Africa
The Southern Africa Migration Project has posted a number of policy briefs to its website at http://www.queensu.ca/samp/publications/

These briefs include:
"The Southern Africa White Paper on International Migration: An Analysis and Critique"
"The New South African Immigration Bill: A Legal Analysis"
"Making Up the Numbers: Illegal Immigration to South Africa"
"Gender Concerns in South African Migration Policy"
"Counting Brains: Measuring Emigration From South Africa"
"The Point of No Return: Evaluating the Amnesty for Mozambican Refugees in South Africa"

Sweden
The Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO) at Stockholm University has published a series of monographs related to the management of cultural diversity:

Janina W. Dacyl ed. Between Universal Values and Unbounded Diversity
Janina W. Dacyl ed. Challenges of Cultural Diversity in Europe
Janina W. Dacyl and Charles Westin eds. Cultural Diversity and the Media
Janina W. Dacyl and Charles Westin eds . Governance of Cultural Diversity

Further information can be found at: http://www.ceifo.su.se

United States
The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has launched the Migration Information Source, an on-line resource for timely and accurate data and analysis on migration and refugee issues. The Source can be found on-line at http://www.migrationinformation.org

Metropolis Events

Seventh International Metropolis Conference
The Seventh International Metropolis Conference will take place in Oslo, Norway 9-13 September 2002. The overall theme will be "Togetherness in Difference: Citizenship and Belonging." Sub-themes include: globalization and the politics of migration; empowerment and the effectiveness of citizenship; urban textures; and gender in migration. Further information on the workshops, the plenary sessions and registration information is available at http://www.international.metropolis.net

Croatia
The Croatian Centre for Strategic Studies hosted a Metropolis inter-conference seminar entitled "Immigrants and Homeland" from May 9-12, 2002 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Participants from twelve countries explored the subject of diaspora from the points of view of the homeland as well as the host country. For more information, please visit: www.international.metropolis.net

Products

New Working Papers from the Transnational Communities Programme at Oxford

Alexander Horstmann Incorporation and Resistance: Borderlands, Transnational Communities and Social Change in Southeast Asia

Sarah Radcliffe, Nina Laurie and Robert Andolina Indigenous people and political transnationalism: globalization from below meets globalization from above?

Zig Layton-Henry
Transnational Communities, Citizenship and African-Caribbeans in Birmingham

Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins
Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes

All papers can be found on-line at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk

New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence
Parin Dossa Modernization and Global Restructuring of Women's Work: Border-Crossing Stories of Iranian Women
Barry Edmonston Interprovincial Migration and Canadian Immigrants

Handy Gozalie Immigrants' Earnings and Assimilation into Canada's Labour Market: The Case of Overachievers

Copies of these papers can be found at: http://www.riim.metropolis.net

Recent Publications by Metropolis Researchers

Basok, Tanya Tortillas and Tomatoes: Trasnmigrant Mexica Harvesters in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 2002.

Bloemraad, Irene "The North American Naturalization Gap: An Institutional Approach to Citizenship Acquisition in the United States and Canada." International Migration Review 36:1 (spring 2002): 193-228.

Body-Gendrot, S. and M. Martinello eds. Minorities in European Cities: The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighbourhood Level. London: St Martin's Press, 2000.

Cross, Malcolm and Robert Moore eds. Globalization and the New City: Migrants, Minorities and Urban Transformations in Comparative Perspective. London: Palgrave, 2002.

Fong, Eric and Emi Ooka "The Social Consequences of Participating in the Ethnic Economy." International Migration Review 36:1 (spring 2002): 125-146.

Isin, Engin Being Political: genealogies of Citizenship. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Kazemipur, Abdolmohammed and Shiva S. Halli "Immigrants and 'New Poverty': The Case of Canada." International Migration Review 35:4 (winter 2001): 1129-1156.

Li, Peter S. "Immigrants' Propensity to Self-Employment: Evidence from Canada." International Migration Review 35:4 (winter 2001): 1106-1128.

Montreuil, Annie and Richard Bourhis "Majority Acculturation Orientations Toward 'Valued' and 'Devalued' Immigrants." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2001) 32(6): 698-719.

Mujawamariya, Donatille L'intégration des minorités visibles et ethnoculturelles dans la profession enseignante: récits d'experiences, enjeux et perspective. Les Editions Logiques.

Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur "Language as Both Human Capital and Ethnicity." International Migration Review 36:1 (spring 2002): 147-177.

Thériault, Joseph Yvon. Critique de l'Américanité: Mémoire et démocratie au Québec. Montréal: Editions Québec Amérique, 2002.

Vermeulen, Hans and Joel Perlmann eds. Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility: Does Culture Make a Difference? Palgrave Publishing.

Waldinger, Roger ed. Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America. University of California Press.

Yeager, Matthew G. "Rehabilitating the Criminality of Immigrants Under Section 19 of the Canadian Immigration Act." International Migration Review 36:1 (spring 2002): 178-192.

Web News

METROPOLIS LIST-SERVE ON REGIONAL IMMIGRATION
A Metropolis list-serve has been established to provide a forum for discussing immigrant attraction, settlement and retention in centres other than the largest metropolises. The new list-serve seeks to provide a space for NGOs, policy makers, and researchers to share experiences and research findings about immigration to small and medium-sized cities, and to rural areas. To join the list-serve, or for more information, please contact Liisa Cormode at lcormode@sk.sympatico.ca

Portrait of Montreal Population
The Montreal Centre has posted a demographic portrait of immigrant and non-immigrant populations in the new City of Montreal and its 27 arrondissements. It can be found on-line at: http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/diversite/portrait.htm

Related Initiatives

Canadian Council on Social Development
The Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD promotes better social and economic security for all Canadians. A national, self-supporting, non-profit organization, the CCSD's main product is information and its main activity is research, focussing on concerns such as income security, employment, poverty, child welfare, pensions and government social policies.
It recently published "Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? The Labour Market Experiences and Incomes of Recent Immigrants, 1995 to 1998" by Ekuwa Smith and Andrew Jackson. Copies can be obtained at http://www.ccsd.ca

Laidlaw Foundation
The Laidlaw Foundation is a public interest foundation that uses its human and financial resources in innovative ways to strengthen civic engagement and social cohesion. It has recently commissioned 12 papers on social inclusion. Thus far, three are available on its website at http://www.laidlawfdn.org
Clyde Hertzman "Leave No Child Behind! Social Exclusion and Child Development"
Dow Marmur "Ethical Reflections on Social Inclusion"
Andrew Jackson and Katherine Scott "Does Work Include Children? The Effects of the Labour Market on Family Income, Time and Stress"

The Levy Institute
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. The Institute is independent of any political or other affiliation, and encourages diversity of opinion in the examination of economic policy issues while striving to transform ideological arguments into informed debate.
Recent papers of interest on-line (http://levy.org) include:
Edward N. Wolff Racial Wealth Disparities: Is the Gap Closing?

Joel Perlmann Poles and Italians Then, Mexicans Now? Immigrant-to-Native Wage Ratios, 1910 and 1940

National Bureau of Economic Research
The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. It has an extensive working paper series that includes over fifty papers on immigration in the United States. Recent additions include:

Xi Mena Clark, Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?
Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration
All papers can be found on-line at http://www.papers.nber.org

OECD
The OECD has posted a series of papers on social inclusion and exclusion on its website at http://www.oecd.org
Papers include:
"Combating Social Exclusion in the Netherlands: the Cases of Arnheim and Amsterdam."
"Risks and Outcomes of Social Exclusion: Insights from Longitudinal Data"
"Social Exclusion, Children and Education: Concept and Measurement Issues"
"Social Exclusion in the United States: Policy Implications for Community Solutions"
"The New Learning for Inclusion and Capability:Towards Community Governance in the Education Action Zones"
"Social Exclusion and Children- Creating Identity Capital: Some Conceptual Issues and Practical Solutions"

Settlement.org
The Settlement.Org Web site helps immigrants and refugees to find the help and information they need to start a new life in Ontario, Canada. The goal of the site is to help settlement agencies and front-line workers better serve newcomers. There are four objectives behind this goal: Improve the quality of information and services provided to newcomers; Strengthen the knowledge and expertise of agencies and individual workers; Increase the productivity of agencies and individual workers; Enhance communication and collaboration within the sector.
Recent research papers on the site include:
"Labour Market Orientation and Employment Preparation for Foreign-Trained Engineers in Ontario"
"Partners in Settlement of Privately Sponsored Refugees in Ontario."
To obtain copies of these and many other papers, visit http://www.settlement.org

Related Events

Association for Canadian Studies in China 10th Biennial Conference
(Lanzhou, China 16-18 July 2002)
fengjw@lzu.edu.cn

Globalization and Citizenship
(Kaohsiung, Taiwan 17-18 July 2002)
w.hudson@mailbox.gu.edu.au

Transcending the National
(Sydney, Australia 19-21 July 2002)
http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/CES/

European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism
(Aberystwyth, Wales 22-27 July 2002)
dam@aber.ac.uk

Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Conference
(Stockholm, Sweden 8-11 August 2002)
Theme: Old Environments - New Environments
NACS@utu.fi

Diversity Within Unity: Cultures of Violence
(Prague, Czech Republic 12-16 August, 2002)
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/du3cv1.htm

Canada in International Perspective: Social Cohesion and the Policy Agenda
(Kingston, Canada 19-21 August 2002)
http://www.qliisp.com

Expériences interculturelles au sein des communautés francophones d'Amérique du Nord
(Moncton, Canada 22-24 August 2002)
http://www.umoncton.ca/colloquegricc

Institute of Public Administration Canada
(Halifax, Canada 25-28 August 2002)
http://www.ipaciapc.ca

Philosophy of Culture and Intercultural Philosophy
(Morelia, Mexico 27-31 August 2002)
http://ramos.filos.umich.mx/convoca2.htm
International Conference on Labour Supply and Diversity
(Gothenburg, Sweden 2-3 September 2002)
katarina.mlekov@gr.to

Cultural Returns: Assessing the Place of Culture in Social Thought
(Oxford, United Kingdom 18-20 September 2002)
socsci-pavis@open.ac.uk

IVth International Conference on Priorities in Health Care
(Oslo, Norway 19-22 September 2002)
http://www.healthpriorities.net/4thedition.htm

Integration and Fragmentation in Canada and the United States
(Ottawa, Canada 20-21 September 2002)
info@acsus.org

Association française d'études canadiennes
(Strasbourg, France 20-22 September 2002)
Theme: Le Canada: Autrement
Sturgess@umb.u-strasbg.fr

5th International Conference of the Asia Pacific Migration Research Network
(Coral Coast, Fiji 24-26 September 2002)
http://www.capstrans.edu.au/apmrn

Belears 2015: Immigration Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
(Palma de Malorca, Spain 26-27 September 2002)
barretxe@transit.es

Asylum and Migration
(Helsinki, Finland 27-28 September 2002)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/

Unity and Diversity: European and Canadian Debates
(Montreal, Canada 27-28 September 2002)
isabelle.petit@umontreal.ca

Pluralism, Religion and Public Policy
(Montreal, Canada 9-11 October, 2002)
http://www.mcgill.ca/prpp/

12th Nordic Migration Conference
(Helsinki, Finald 10-12 October 2002)
http://sockom.helsinki.fi/ceren/eng/konferen.html

International Atlantic Economic Conferences
(Washington D.C. U.S.A. 10-13 October 2002)
http://www.iaes.org/conferences/index.htm

Citizens, Nations and Cultures: Transatlantic Perspectives
(Netherlands 16-19 October 2002)
http://www.cmsu.edu/mcts/

Mass Media and Communication in the e-Society of the 21st Century: Access and Participation (Moscow, Russia 17-20 October 2002)
N_bolotina@journ.msu.ru

Future Trends: Risk
(Ottawa, Canada 23-25 October 2002)
http://www.policyresearch.gc.ca

Francophone Presence in North America
(Alabama, U.S.A. 24-27 October 2002)
http://www.acqs.org

In/Security: Canada in an International World
(Vancouver, Canada 7-9 November 2002)
http://www.sfu.ca/cns/insec-conf

Cultural Citizenship: Challenges of Globalization
(Melbourne, Australia 5-7 December 2002)
gmstokes@deakin.edu.au

Citizenship and Discrimination in Europe
(Coventry, United Kingdom 5-8 December 2002)
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/CRER/

American Economics Association
(Washington D.C., U.S.A. 3-5 January 2003)
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/anmt.htm

8th International Conference on Forced Migration
(Chiang Mai, Thailand 5-9 January 2003)
iasfm8@droit.umontreal.ca

Governing the Diversity of Canada: Prospectus and Prospect
(Montreal, Canada 23-25 January 2003)
http://www.acs-aec.ca

Migration and Health in Southern Africa
(Capetown, South Africa 27-29 January 2003)
emma.newcombe@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk

Federalism and Trans-Border Integration of North America
(Ottawa, Canada 7-8 February 2003)
+ 1 (613) 520-2600 x 1422

Lifelong Citizenship Learning, Participatory Democracy and Social Change: Local and Global Perspectives
(Toronto, Canada 15-17 May 2003)
tlc@oise.utoronto.ca

Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities
(Halifax, Canada 28 May - 5 June 2003)
http://www.hssfc.ca

Paths of Integration: similarities and differences in the settlement process of immigrants in Europe, 1880-2000
(Osnabruck, Netherlands 19-21 June 2003)
l.lucassen@hum.uva.nl

XIXth World Congress of the International Political Science Association
(Capetown, South Africa 30 June - 5 July 2003)
http://www.ucd.ie/~ipsa

International Atlantic Economic Conference
(Quebec City, Canada 16-19 October 2003)
http://www.iaes.org/conferences/

Calls for Papers/Proposals

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology will publish a special issue on "Negotiating Boundaries in a Globalizing World." Submissions must be received by Ann Denis (adenis@uottawa.ca) or Aysan Sev'er (sever@utsc.utoronto.ca) no later than September 1, 2002.

Social Policy and Society
Social Policy and Society is a new journal by Cambridge University Press. Please submit papers to Tony Maltby t.maltby@bhan.ac.uk

"Paths of Integration: Similarities and Differences in the Settlement Process of Immigrants in Europe, 1800-2000"
Paper proposals for this seminar should be sent to Leo Lucassen (l.lucassen@hum.uva.nl) by 1 November 2002.

Metropolis Accolades