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January 2003

(Vol. 4 No. 1)

 

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Calls for Papers/Proposals

Metropolis Notes

 

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Partner Update

Australia

The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs has launched a new website on diversity at http://www.diversityaustralia.au

Canada

The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria has completed a bibliography on religion and ethnicity in Canada. It can be found
both under the Religion in the Metropolis (RithM) web niche on the Metropolis site (http://www.canada.metropolis.net/research-policy/Religion/index.html)
and on the Centre’s site (www.uvic.ca/csrs)

A new study by Judy Vashti Persad and Salome Lukas entitled "No Hijab Is Permitted Here: A Study on the Experiences of
Muslim Women Wearing Hijab Applying for Work in the Manufacturing, Sales and Service Sectors" has been posted on Citizenship and Immigration Canada,
Ontario region’s website at http://www.settlement.org

A new document entitled "Strategic Workshop on Immigrant Women Making Place in Canadian Cities (2002) Policy-Relevent Research on
Immigration and Settlement – Relevant for Whom? A Working Document" is now available at http://genderimmigration.inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca
The recently funded "War, Diaspora and Learning: Kurdish Women in Canada, Britain and Sweden" research project team has recently launched a
website at http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~mojaweb it includes bibliographies, articles, resources and links to refugee and asylum issues.

Statistics Canada has posted a research paper by Marc Frenette entitled "Do the Falling Earnings of Immigrants Apply to Self-Employed Immigrants?"
on its website at http://www.statcan.ca

United Kingdom
A new research paper for the Home Office entitled "Knowledge Migrants and Experiences of Professionals
in the UK on Work Permits" can be found at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds

The new Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act has now come into force.

United States

The Migration Policy Institute 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
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has posted a working paper by Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid entitled
"The Other Face of the Islamist Movement" on its site at http://www.Ceip.org
 
Metropolis Events
Sixth National Metropolis Conference

The Sixth National Metropolis Conference will take place in Edmonton 21-24 March 2003. The theme is "Immigration and Diversity:
Research and Policy in an Era of Globalization." It combines four plenary sessions on key contemporary policy concerns in the field
of immigration and diversity with over sixty tightly focused workshops. Both the plenary sessions and the workshops are designed to
bring policymakers, practitioners and researchers together to share their experiences, build relationships and guide their future work.

Plenary topics include:
  • Regionalization and Immigration
  • Canada’s Immigration Policy: Engaging the Public Discourse
  • Immigration, Security and Terrorism: Spuriously Connected?
  • Immigration, Diversity and Official Language Minority Communities
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Workshop topics include:
  • After 9/11: Combating Hate, Bias and Fear (Part I)
  • Immigrants and the Canadian Justice System: Are Perceptions Changing?
  • Regionalization of Canadian Immigration Policy: To Regionalize or Not to Regionalize
  • Citizenship, Identity and the Question of Nationalism
  • Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (Part I)
  • Perspectives on Diversity and Health
  • Growing Up in Cities: Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth
  • Collaborative Perspectives and Action Research and Service Delivery for Immigrants and Refugees
  • After 9/11: Connecting Canadians: Reflections on the Roles of the Media and Public Education (Part II)
  • L’immigration et le communautés francophones en situation minoritaire au Canada (Part I)
  • Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (Part II)
  • Supportive Policies and Programs for Immigrants and Refugees
  • Regional Immigration Policy: Strategies for Enhancing Immigrant Settlement in Small & Medium Sized Cities
  • Studies in Ethnic Identity Development and Expression
  • Immigrant Youth and Families: Focus on Integration
  • Labour Market Issues
  • Triangular Human Capital Flows: Canada as an Entrepot Destination
  • Challenges Facing Recent and Established Immigrant Seniors in the Prairie Region
  • Gender, Precarious Immigration Status and Access to Health Services
  • L’immigration et le communautés francophones en situation minoritaire au Canada (Part II)
  • Teacher and Student Perspectives on the ESL Student Experience in K-12 Schools in Ontario
  • Gender and Migration: Mapping a Research and Policy Agenda
  • Census Data and Related Projects
  • How to Combat Discrimination
  • Do Immigrants’ Earnings Converge or Diverge? (Part I)
  • La performance et la mobilité scolaires des jeunes d’origine immigrée (Part I)
  • The New Canadian Children and Youth Study: Lessons Learned from Wave One
  • International Perspectives on Immigration, Diversity and Citizenship
  • Case Studies in Bridging Initiatives for Internationally Trained Professionals (Part 1)
  • Issues in Canadian Immigration – Selection and Immigration Levels
  • Social and Economic Integration of Immigrants and Refugees (Part I)
  • Students’ Attitudes Towards Immigrants
  • Managing Movement Across Borders: A Closer Look at Labour, Mobility & Diversity
  • Factors and Obstacles Affecting Immigrants’ Economic Integration (Part II)
  • Case Studies in Bridging Initiatives for Internationally Trained Professionals (Part II)
  • Factors in the Utilization of Health Services Among Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities
  • Looking into the Future - eCommunication
  • Minority Places of Worship and the Urban Planning Process: Negotiating ‘Difference’ from the Ground Up
  • Social and Economic Integration of Immigrants and Refugees (Part II)
  • La performance et la mobilité scolaires des jeunes d’origine immigrée (Part II)
  • Securatising Canadian Immigration
  • Bridging the Solitudes: Translating Research into Decision-Making
  • Studies in the Social and Economic Integration of Immigrants
  • Looking at the Segmentation of the Second Generation(s): New Challenges for Belonging and Citizenship?
  • Supplement, Substitute or Stepping Stone? Electoral and Non-Electoral Participation of Immigrants and Minorities
  • The Vancouver Community Studies Project…and Beyond
  • Perspectives on Mental Health Service Delivery to Immigrants
  • Making the Grade: Still Connecting Canadians through Learning Materials
  • Low Income Among Immigrants to Canada (Part I)
  • Housing Issues and Immigrants: Perspectives from Community Based Organizations (Part I)
  • Current Issues and Challenges Faced by Non-Government Organizations and Ethnic Communities in the Integration of Immigrants (Part I)
  • Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility (Part I)
  • Canadian Perspectives on the Regionalization of Immigration
  • Ethnicity Without Religion: Why Multiculturalism Studies and Policy Often Miss the Mark
  • Accreditation of Skills and Credentials of Immigrant Workers and the Future of Recruitment within the Federal Public Service
  • Issues in Education (Part I)
  • Low Income Among Immigrants to Canada (Part II)
  • Public Attitudes and the Regionalization of Immigration Policy
  • Current Issues and Challenges Faced by Non-Government Organizations and Ethnic Communities in the Integration of Immigrants (Part II)
  • Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility (Part II)
  • Settlement Perspectives of Immigrants and Refugees: European Perspectives and Implications for Canada
  • Citizenship Policy and Research: Programs, Issues and Research Agendas
  • Housing Issues and Immigrants: Perspectives from Community Based Organizations (Part II)
  • Issues in Education
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The conference programme will continue to be updated on-line. For the most up-to-date information and registration details.
Please visit the web at http://www.metropolis.net Spaces are limited so register now!


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.  Please check on-line for updates at www.international.metropolis.net
Products
New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence

All papers can be found at http://www.riim.metropolis.net

Gillian Creese and Edith Ngene Kambere "What Colour is Your English?"

Kate Geddie Licence to Labour: Obstacles Facing Vancouver's Foreign-Trained Engineers

Bernard Henin Immigration to Canada's Mid-Sized Cities: A Study of Latin Americans and Africans in Victoria, B.C.

Alexandra Charlton, Suzanne Duff, Dan Grant, Alison Mountz, Robin Pike, Joshua Sohn, and Chris Taylor
The Challenges to Responding to Human Smuggling in Canada: Practitioners Reflect on the 1999 Boat Arrivals in British Columbia

Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI)
Volume 3, #1 of JIMI is now available. Papers include:
Rainer Baubock Farewell to Multiculturalism? Sharing Values and Identities in Societies of Immigration
Alexei Izyumov, Nan-Ting Chou, Paul Coomes and Babu Nahata Immigrant Concentration and Educational Attainment: Evidence from US Data
Lex Veldboer, Reinout Kleinhans and Jan Willem Duyvendak The Diversified Neighbourhood in Western Europe and the United States:
How do Countries Deal with Spatial Distribution of Economic and Cultural Differences?
Noorfarah Merali and Claudio Violato Relationships Between Demographic Variables and Immigrant Parents,
Perceptions of Assimilative Adolescent Behaviours
Mette Andersson Identity Work in Sports. Ethnic Minority Youth, Norwegian Macro-debates and the Role Model Aspect
Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson Selectivity and Immigration in Canada
To obtain a copy, visit http://www.jimi.metropolis.net

Recent Publications by Metropolis Researchers
Yasmeen Abu-Laban. Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization. Broadview Press, 2002.
Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff. Semblances of Sovereignty: the Constitution, the State and American Citizenship. Harvard University Press, 2002.
Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff and Douglas Klusmeyer eds. Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration: The Comparative Citizenship Project.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002.
E. Guild. Immigration Law in the European Community. Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe, Volume 2. Kluwer Law International, 2001.
E. Guild and P. Minderhoud eds. Security of Residence and Expulsion: Protection of Aliens in Europe. Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe,
Volume 1. Kluwer Law International, 2001.
Frances Henry and Carol Tator. Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press. University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Jan Hjarno. Illegal Immigrants and Developments in Employment in the Labour Markets of the EU. Ashgate Publishing, 2002.
Ivan Light, Min Zhou and Rebecca Kim. "Transnationalism and American Exports in an English-speaking World."
International Migration Review 36:3 (Fall 2002): 702-725.
Gustavo Mesch. "Between Spatial and Social Segregation among Immigrants: The case of Immigrants from the FSU in Israel."
International Migration Review 36:3 (Fall 2002): 702-725.
Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad eds. Trade Unions, Immigration, and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993:
A Comparative Study of the Actions of Trade Unions in Seven West European Countries. Berghahn Books, 2002.
Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter. How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labour. University of California Press, 2003.
Klaus F. Zimmermann and Thomas K. Bauer. The Economics of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002. A.R. Zolberg and P.M. Benda eds.
Global Migrants, Global Refugees. Berghahn Books, 2001.

Related Initiatives

Centre for OCSE Research (CORE)

CORE is the first institution specifically dedicated to researchon the Organization for Secirity and Co-operation in Europe (OCSE).
It is based at the University of Hamburg’s Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy. It has recently added a paper to its
working paper series examining the effectiveness of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.
It can be located at http://www.core-hamburg.de/english/publications/workingpapers

Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC)

IPAC, is a national bilingual English/French non-profit organization, concerned with the theory and practice of public management,
with 17 regional groups across Canada. It provides networks and forums regionally, nationally and internationally. It recently published
a paper by Barbara Wake Caroll and Geneviève Bouchard entitled "Policy-making and administrative discretion: the case of immigration
in Canada." It can be found at http://www.ipaciapc.ca

IZA

IZA is a private, independent research institute based at the University of Bonn that conducts labour market research.
It has an extensive working paper series on-line at http://www.iza.org

Papers of interest to Metropolis members include:

Patrick A. Puhani The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi and Jeff Frank Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Amelie Constant and Douglas S. Massey Self-selection, Earnings, and Out-migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

The NBER extensive working papers series is available on-line at http://www.nber.org

Recent papers include:

Edward L. Glaeser, David Laibson, Jose A. Scheinkman, and Christine L. Soutter What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

Edward L. Glaeser, David Laibson and Bruce Sacerdote The Economic Approach to Social Capital

John F. Helliwell Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces

John F. Helliwell and Robert D. Putnam Education and Social Capital

Pew Charitable Trusts

The Pew Charitable Trusts support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Publications and reports can be found on-line at http://pewtrusts.com Recent publications include the

2002 National Survey of Latinos.

Religion and Immigration Project, University of San Francisco

This project investigates the roll of religion in the lives of new immigrants to the San Francisco Bay area. Researchers involved in the project study Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Mexican and Salvadoran immigrant communities to assess how religious groups and communities encourage the participation of recent immigrants in the political, civic and associational life of San Francisco and of the larger U.S. political/social system. More information can be found at http://www.usfca.edu/TRIP
Social Research and Development Corporation (SDRC) The SDRC is a non-profit organization mandated to help policymakers and practitioners to identify social policies and programs that improve the well-being of all Canadians with a special concern for the effects on the disadvantaged, and to raise the standards of evidence that are used in assessing social policies and programs. SDRC has an on-line working paper series available at http://www.sdrc.org Papers of interest to Metropolis include:
Peter Hicks Preparing Tomorrow’s Social Policy Agenda: new Priorities for Policy Research and Development That Emerge From an Examination of the Economic Well-Being of the Working-Age Population
 

Related Events

Federalism and Trans-Border Integration of North America
(Ottawa, Canada 7-8 February 2003)
nafederalism@yahoo.com

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

Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity: Is There a Tension?
(Brussels, Belgium 28 February – 1 March 2003)
vanparijs@etes.ucl.ac.be

What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? Building a Social Inclusion Research Agenda
(Ottawa, Canada 27-28 March 2003)
http://ccsd.ca/events/inclusion/intro.htm

History, National Identity, and Political Order in the New Eastern Europe and Eurasia
(New York City, U.S.A. 3-5 April 2003)
http://www.nationalities.org/asn-convention03-cfp.html

Borderlands and Beyond: Examining Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender, Sexuality and Nation
(Phoenix, U.S.A. 3-5 April 2003)
http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/naes2003cfp.html

Society for Economic Anthropology Conference
(Monterrey, Mexico 4-5 April 2003)
Theme: Migration and the Economy
trager@uwp.edu

Ethnic Politics and Post-Communism: Theory and Practice
(Austin, U.S.A. 11 April 2003)
barany@mail.utexas.edu

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)
http://www.acs-aec.ca

Safe Schools – Safe Communities: Catch the Wave
(Halifax, Canada 8-10 May 2003)
jmcp@stjosephsm.ednet.ns.ca

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

Migration and Health in Asia
(Singapore 21-23 May 2003)
popnasia@nus.edu.sg

Transculturalisms
(Montreal, Canada 23-24 May 2003)
http://www.iccs-ciec.ca

Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism: 40 years later
(Montreal, Canada 24-25 May 2003)
http://www.acs-aec.ca

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

Towards a Cosmopolitan Culture: Future Consequences of Religion, Ethnicity and Migration for Europe
(Stockholm, Sweden 13-15 June 2003)
http://www.axsonjohnsonfoundation.org

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/

Language, Education and Diversity
(Waikato, New Zealand 26-29 November 2003)
http://www.led2003.ac.nz

Immigrant Tourist Industry
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7-9 December 2003)
rath@pscw.uva.nl

Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion
(Rouen, France 7-9 January 2004)
http://sochist.ntu.ac.uk/conferences.htm

Calls for Papers/Proposals

 The Imigrant Tourist Industry Abstracts due by 1 February 2003. For more information contact Jan Rath at rath@pscw.uva.nl

17th 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 Societies
Abstracts due by 1 April 2003. For more information contact Dzemal Sokolovic at ko@bih.net.ba or visit http://www.bosnet.org/democracy_institute
Metropolis Notes
KangQuing (Kenny) Zhang has moved from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

 

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