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November 2002 (Vol. 3 No. 6)
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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 +01 613 957-5941 john.biles@metropolis.net IMPORTANT NOTICEDispatches from Metropolis International will be moving to an electronic format with the April 2003 issue.Partner UpdateCanadaAccess to Trades and ProfessionsThe Access to Trades and Professions unit of the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities has released a study entitled, "The Facts Are In" it is available on-line at http://wwww.equalopportunity.on.caIdentity SeminarThe second publication to emerge from the identity seminar hosted by the Association for Canadian Studies, Metropolis and the Multiculturalism Program is now available. The inaugural issue of the magazine Canadian Diversity includes shortened versions of the papers from the seminar:To order a copy of this special issue check www.acs-aec.ca New Citizenship Act The Government of Canada has tabled a new Canadian Citizenship Act in the House of Commons. For more information check http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/government/C-18 Official Languages and Immigration The Office of the Official Languages Commissioner has released a new report entitled Official Languages and Immigration: Obstacles and Opportunities for Immigrants and Communities. For this and other information check http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca Statistics Canada Papers Statistics Canada publishes a regular series of papers on its website. A recent study of interest by Philip Oreopoulos has been added, it is entitled, Do Neighbourhoods Influence Long-term Labour Market Success? A Comparison of Adults Who Grew Up in Different Public Housing Projects. It and other papers can be found at http://www.statscan.gc.ca Migration Policy Institute The MPI has an extremely valuable information source on information surrounding immigrants, refugees and ethnic minorities. Recent additions include data on foreign-born in the1991, 1996 and 2001 Australian Censuses; information on the foreign born in the United States and Canada; and an overview of the fundamentals of refugee protection. To visit the information source check http://www.migrationinformation.org PortugalMetropolis Portugal and the Luso-American Foundation has published an edited volume entitled Immigration and Place in Mediterranean Metropolises. It is based on papers presented at the 6th International Metropolis Conference held in Rotterdam November 2001. To obtain a copy contact fladport@flad.pt Southern Africa Migration ProjectThe Government of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) has awarded a grant of CDN$3million to Queen’s University’s Southern African Migration Project (SAMP). This Metropolis affiliate has also received support from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) so that its total grant now exceeds CDN$9 million. For more information contact Jonathan Crush at crushj@post.queensu.ca or visit SAMP’s website at http://www.queensu.ca/sampNew working papers available on-line include: Gender and Brain Drain from South Africa Spaces of Vulnerability: Migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa Zimbabweans Who Move: Perspectives on National and International Migration in Zimbabwe United KingdomNew research papers and short "Research Findings" summaries of the Home Office include:Beverly Powis and Rachel K. Walmsley Programmes for Black and Asian Offenders on Probation: Lessons for Developing Practice All on-line publications can be found at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds
Eighth International Metropolis Conference The Eighth International Metropolis Conference will be held 15-19 September 2003 in Vienna, Austria. The overall conference theme will be "Gaining From Migration" with an emphasis on how both sending and receiving countries can benefit economically and socially from migration. The initial call for workshop proposals is now out. Proposals are due by 31 December 2002. Please check on-line for the template www.international.metropolis.net ProductsNew Working Paper from the Transnational Communities Programme at OxfordCindy Horst XAWILAAD: The Importance of Overseas Connections in the Livelihoods of Somali Refugees in the Dadaab Refugee Camps of Kenya Cindy Horst Transnational Dialogues: Developing Ways to Do Research in a Diasporic Community Hannah E. Gill Querido Emigrante: Musical Perspectives of Dominican Migration Nancy Abelmann Mobilizing Korean Family Ties: Cultural Conversations Across the Border Jutta Lauth Bacas Cross-border Marriages and the Formation of Transnational Families: A Case Study of Greek-German Couples in Athens Papers can be found on-line at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk New Working Papers from the Toronto Metropolis Centre of ExcellenceMorton Beiser, Feng Hou, Violet Kaspar and Samuel Noh Ethnic Identity, Resettlement Stress and Depressive Affect Among Southeast Asians in Canada Beth Milroy and Marcia Wallace Ethnoracial Diversity and Planning in the Greater Toronto Area Paul Anisef, Etta Baichman-Anisef and Myer Siemiatycki Multiple Identities and Marginal Ties: The Experience of Russian Jewish Immigrant Youth in Toronto Minelle Mahtani Interrogating the Hyphen-nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and ‘Mixed Race’ Identities All papers can be found at http://www.ceris@metropolis.net New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of ExcellenceGeraldine Pratt Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second Generation Filipino-Canadian Youths Minelle Mahtani and Alison Mountz Immigration to British Columbia: Media Representation and Public Opinion Kathrine Richardson Sieve or Shield: NAFTA and its Influence within Canada Don J. DeVoretz, Zhongdong Ma and Kangqing Zhang Triangular Human Capital Flows: Some Empirical Evidence from Hong Kong and Canada Deirdre McKay Filipina Identities: Geographies of Social Integration/Exclusion in the Canadian Metropolis Aranzazu Recalde Recent Latin Americans in Vancouver: Unyielding Diverse Needs versus Insufficient Services All papers can be found at http://www.riim.metropolis.net
Related InitiativesChaire Concordia-UQAM en études ethniques The ethnic studies chair shared between Concordia University and the Université du Québec à Montréal has run both a working paper series and a seminar/conference notebook series over the last decade. The working paper series includes: Gina Stoiciu La mythologie de l’unité et de la diversité dans la définition des identités collectives Georges Leroux Le dieu des autres: remarques sur la tolérance et le pluralisme dans le Québec contemporain Irène Lépine Les cadres issus des minoritiés, ou sont-ils? André Jacob Les politiques sociales québécoises et les personnes agées de divers origines ethno-culturelles Caroline Knowles Exploring racism and schizophrenia through life story Jean Morisset Piste auctochtone et filière trans-culturelle Dominique Leydet Intégration et pluralisme: le concept de culture publique Carolle Simard La représentation politique des élus issus des groupes ethniques minoritaires à Montréal Annie Montreuil, Geneviève Barrette, Richard Bourhis, Marie Personnaz, Bernard Personnaz and Ronald Schmidt Politiques d’intégration et orientation d’acculturation envers les immigrants: comparison de collégiens à Paris, Montréal et Los Angeles To obtain copies of these papers please contact ccuee@uqam.ca Forced Migration On-Line Forced Migration On-Line is a web site that provides access to a diverse range of information resources on forced migration balancing specialist subject knowledge with an accessible means to find web based materials. Visit their site at http://www.forcedmigration.org Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) The IRPP is mandated to improve public policy in Canada by generating research, providing insight and sparking debate. It has just launched a new research program on Canada’s immigration and refugee policy. For more information check http://www.irpp.org It has also just published Policy-making and administrative discretion: the case of immigration in Canada by Barbara Wake Caroll. It is available at http://www.ipaciapc.ca Inter-University Committee on International Migration Since 1974 this committee has been a focal point for work on migration and refugee studies at Boston University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University and Wellesley College. The committee sponsors two seminar series and three working paper series. Recent papers of interest include: Lorena Barberia Remittances to Cuba: An Evaluation of Cuban and US Government Policy Measures Heather S. Gregg Divided They Conquer: The Success of Armenian Ethnic Lobbies in the United States For more information visit http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/migration/index.html
Gender, Migration and Governance in Asia (Canberra, Australia 5-6 December 2002) http://ni.anyu.edu.au/nigl 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 Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations (Hawai’i, U.S.A. 13-16 February 2003) http://www.diversity-conference.com In Search of Security: An International Conference on Policing and Security (Montreal, Canada 19-22 February 2003) http:.//www.lcc.gc.ca Regional Integration, Migration and Poverty (Pretoria, South Africa 25 April 2003) Http://www.sarpn.org.za Intersections of Diversity: A Seminar on Policy and Research Issues (Niagara Falls, Canada 25-26 April 2003) Lifelong Citizenship Learning, Participatory Democracy and Social Change: Local and Global Perspectives (Toronto, Canada 15-17 May 2003) tlc@oise.utoronto.ca 3rd Biennial International Conference on Intercultural Research (Taipei, Taiwan 16-19 May 2003) http://www.interculturalacademy.org ACFAS (Rimouski, Canada 19-23 May 2003) http://www.acfas.ca/congres Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities (Halifax, Canada 28 May – 5 June 2003) http://www.hssfc.ca International Conference on Human Services in Rural Communities (Halifax, Canada 29-30 May 2003) clews@stthomasu.ca Canadian Economics Association Annual Meetings (Ottawa, Canada 30 May – 1 June 2003) http://economics.ca Intercultural Education (Jyvaskyla, Finland 15-18 June 2003) http://www.jyu.fi/ktl/unesco2003/ 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 Collective Identity and Minority Rights (Belgrade, Serbia 27-29 June 2003) ajokic@sbceo.org XIXth World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Capetown, South Africa 30 June – 5 July 2003) http://www.ucd.ie/~ipsa 36th World Sociology Congress: Social Change in the Age of Globalization (Beijing, China 7-11 July 2003) http://www.iis2003beijing.com.cn/ Democracy and Human Rights in Multiethnic Societies (Konjic, Bosnia 7-11 July 2003) http://www.bosnet.org/democracy_institute The Many Faces of Pluralism (Detroit, U.S.A. 11-12 September 2003) aa1277@wayne.edu 17th Biennial Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference (Theme: Ethnicity: Space and Place) (Banff, Canada 2-4 October 2003) tseiler@ucalgary or kalbach@ucalgary.ca International Atlantic Economic Conference (Quebec City, Canada 16-19 October 2003) http://www.iaes.org/conferences/ Calls for Papers/Proposals17th Biennial Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference(Theme: Ethnicity: Space and Place) Papers, abstracts or proposals for sessions, panels or presentations may be submitted to tseiler@ucalgary.ca or kalbach@ucalgary.ca Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers and/or suggestions. Deadline for proposals 30 March 2003.Democracy and Human Rights in Multiethnic SocietiesAbstracts due by 1 April 2003. For more information contact Dzemal Sokolovic at ko@bih.net.ba or visit http://www.bosnet.org/democracy_instituteIt is with great sadness that Metropolis notes the passing away of Simon Fraser University sociologist Ellen Gee. Wendy Chan, a criminologist at Simon Fraser, has joined the citizenship domain of the Vancouver Metropolis Center.
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