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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 or john.biles@metropolis.net

Partner Update

Canada

The Canadian Studies Program (Canadian Heritage) has released their latest resource guide entitled
Canadians and Their Government: A Resource Guide. It is targeted at youth aged 12-16, but can be adapted for other audiences.
To obtain a copy, please contact CSP-PEC@pch.gc.ca

The Multiculturalism Program (Canadian Heritage) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police hosted a two-day
National Forum on Policing in a Multicultural Society in February. Background papers prepared by Metropolis researchers included:

Margaret Beare Policing with a National Security Agenda

Valerie Pruegger Community and Policing in Partnership

Scot Wortley Civilian Governance and Policing in a Multicultural Society: A Discussion Paper

To obtain copies of these papers, please contact Humera Ibrahim at humera_ibrahim@pch.gc.ca

Strategic Research and Analysis at Canadian Heritage and Metropolis have released the report from Metropolis Conversation #7
entitled "Ethnicity and Labour Markets in Canada: A Research Agenda." To obtain a copy visit the Metropolis site.

In the wake of September 11 2001, the Government of Canada funded a learning project entitled, "Cultivating Peace."
It is now available at http://cultivatingpeace.ca

Settlement.org has created, with the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Access to Professions and Trades Unit,
a web portal with information on 10 regulated professions and 5 trades in Ontario.
It can be found at http://www.settlement.org/sys/guides_detail.asp?faq_id=4000529

The Policy Research Initiative (PRI) has published the latest issue of Horizons focusing on knowledge transfer.
To obtain a copy visit http://www.policyresearch.gc.ca

The PRI’s "Trends Project" has also yielded four edited volumes published in both English and French:
1) Aging and Demographic Change in the Canadian Context;
2) Street Protests and Fantasy Parks – Globalization, Culture and the State;
3) Capacity of Choice; and
4) Social Differentiation.
For French versions please visit http://www.pum.umontreal.ca and
for English versions visit http://www.utppublishing.com or http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/books

The Analytical Studies Branch of Statistics Canada has recently posted a paper by Abdurrahman Aydemir
entitled "Effects of Selection Criteria and Economic Opportunities on the Characteristics of Immigrants.
It can be found on-line at: http://dissemination.statcan.ca:8083/english/research/11F0019MIE/11F0019MIE2002182.pdf

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has launched a new quarterly publication, The Monitor.
It features timely statistics on key movements in Canada. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/monitor/current.html

The Government of Quebec has released the English translation of Jean Renaud and his team’s ten-year study
of immigrants to Quebec.
Entitled What a Difference Ten Years Can Make! The Settlement Experience of Immigrants Admitted to Quebec in 1989,
it is available on CD-ROM from www.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca

European Commission

The European Commission launched a consultation process on how universities can better transfer
new knowledge to society and industry. http://europa.eu.int/com/research/consultations/list_en.html

Israel

The Central Bureau of Statistics has launched a quarterly that presents up-to-date information on the
planning and execution of new statistical projects and publications, including censuses, sample surveys
and empirical research in the social sciences. The quarterly can be found at http://www.cbs.gov.il

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

The IOM has recently published Philip Martin Bordering on Control: Combating Irregular Migration in North America and Europe

It has also posted the first three parts of its International Dialogue on Migration:
1) International Dialogue on Migration;
2) Compendium of Intergovernmental Organizations Active in the Field of Migration; and
3) International Legal Norms and Migration: an Analysis.

For more information, visit http://www.iom.int

UNESCO

UNESCO has launched a project on Best Practices in International Migration.
For more information, please contact Synnove Bendixsen at s.bendixsen@unesco.org

United States

Recent additions to the Migration Policy Institute’s Migration Source include: a chronology of
immigration and security events in the United States since the events of September 11; and Norwegian
migration data (stock of foreign-born population by country of birth; foreign-born as percentage of population;
stock of foreign population by citizenship; inflow of foreign population by country of citizenship; inflow
by age and sex; top 10 sending countries; and acquisition of citizenship by country of former nationality).
For more information visit http://www.migrationinformation.org

 

Metropolis Events

Sixth National Metropolis Conference

The Sixth National Metropolis Conference took place in Edmonton, Alberta 21-24 March 2003.
The theme was "Immigration and Diversity: Research and Policy in an Era of Globalization."
Over five hundred policymakers, researchers and NGOs took part in the four plenary sessions
and over sixty tightly-focused workshops. Both the plenary sessions and the workshops were designed
to bring policymakers, practitioners and researchers together to share their experiences, build relationships and guide their future work.

Papers and presentations should be posted on-line. Please visit the web at http://www.metropolis.net

Intersections of Diversity
The Intersections of Diversity Seminar attracted 150 researchers, policymakers 
and NGOs to Niagara Falls in April to discuss how various diversity markers intersect and impact on ten policy fields. 
 Literature reviews, policy challenge papers and more can be found at http://www.canada.metropolis.net/events/Diversity/diversity_index_e.htm


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 Toronto Metropolis Centre of Excellence (CERIS)

John Shields No Safe Haven: Markets, Welfare and Migrants

Papers can be ordered from CERIS at http://www.ceris.metropolis.net

New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence (RIIM)

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

 

David Ley Offsetting Immigration and Domestic Migration in Gateway Cities: Canadian and Australian Reflections on an 'American Dilemma'

Don DeVoretz and Kangqing Zhang Citizenship, Passports and the Brain Exchange Triangle

Johanna L. Waters and Sin Yih Teo Social and Cultural Impacts of Immigration: An Examination of the Concept of 'Social Cohesion' with Implications for British Columbia

June Beynon, Roumiana Ilieva, Marela Dichupa and Shemina Hirji "Do You Know Your Language?" How Teachers of Punjabi and Chinese Ancestries Construct Their Family Languages in Their Personal and Professional Lives

Daniel Hiebert, Jock Collins, and Paul Spoonley Uneven Globalization: Neoliberal Regimes, Immigration, and Multiculturalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

Daniel Hiebert Are Immigrants Welcome? Introducing the Vancouver Community Studies Survey

Yan Shi The Impact of Canada's Immigration Act on Chinese Independent Immigrants

Roger Andersson Settlement Dispersal of Immigrants and Refugees in Europe: Policy and Outcomes

New Material from the Montreal Centre (IM)

<<La population immigrée et les minorités visibles de la ville de Montréal en 1996: portrait cartographique sommaire>>

http://osim.inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca/

 

 

Journal of International Migration and Integration

Volume 3, #2
JIMI is pleased to announce a special issue on Immigrant Diversity and Political Participation in Select North American and European Cities. This issue will be guest edited by Drs. Anver Saloojee and Anja van Heelsum.
Some of the important themes it will explore include the way in which newcomer immigrant communities experience and engage in civic participation. Is it important for political and administrative institutions to reflect the ethno-racial diversity of the citizenry? Do immigrant communities experience barriers as they seek to participate in meaningful ways in civic politics? What do immigrant communities identify as the priority issues on the municipal landscape and how do they perceive municipal politicians and administrators' responses to these issues?

To obtain a copy, visit http://www.jimi.metropolis.net

 

Recent Publications by Metropolis Researchers

Alexander Aleinikoff and Vincent Chetail Migration and International Legal Norms. T.M.C. Asser Press, 2003. www.asserpress.nl/cata/aleinikoff/fra.htm

Richard Bourhis <<La Loi 101 et l’aménagement du paysage linguistique au Québec>> Revue d’aménagement linguistique, no. 105-106, 2002.

M. Personnaz, Richard Bourhis, G. Barrette et B. Personnaz <<Étude sur les orientations d’acculturation de Maghrébins et de Français d’origine en région parisienne>> dans H. Mewska, F. Tanon et C. Sabatier (dir.) Identitiés, acculturation, altérité. Paris, L’Harmattan, 2002.

Michèle Vatz-Laaroussi et Joanne Charbonneau <<L’accueil et l’intégration des immigrants: à qui la responsabilité? Le cas de jumelages entre familles québécoises et famille immigrantes>>, RIAC, no. 46, La responsabilté: au-delà des engagements et des obligations, automne 2001.

Joanne Charbonneau et Annick Germain <<Les banlieues de l’immigration>> Recherches sociographiques, vol XLIII, no. 2, 2002.

Julie Elizabeth Gagnon et Annick Germain <<Espace urbain et religion: esquisse d’une géographie des lieux de culte minoritaires de la région de Montréal>> Cahiers de Géographie de Québec, vol. 46 no. 128, septembre 2002.

Jean-François Godin and Jean Renaud <<The Impact of Non-governmental Organizations and Language Skills on the Employability of Refugee Claimants: Evidence from Quebec>> Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada vol. XXXIV, no. 1, 2002.

Marie McAndrew <<Ethnic relations and education in divided societies: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland, Quebec>>, Kolor Journal of Moving Communities . no 1, 2002.

Demetrios Papademetriou and Deborah Waller Meyers (eds.) Caught in the Middle: Border Communities in the Era of Globalization Carnegie Endowment Publications, 2001.

Victor Piché, Jean Renaud et Lucie Gingras <<L’insertion économiques des nouveaux immigrants des le marché du travail à Montréal: une approche longitudinale.>> Population-E, vol. 57, no. 1, 2002.

Jean Renaud, Linda Pietrantonio et Guy Bourgeault (dir.) Ce qui a changé depuis le 11 septembre 2001. Les relations ethniques en question. Presses de L’Université de Montréal, 2002.

Jean Renaud et Victor Piché <<Immigration et intégration économiques: peut-on mesurer la discrimination?>> dans Roch Côté et Michel Venne (dir.) Annulaire du Qébec 2003, 2002.

 

Related Initiatives

Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)

The CPRN has posted a series of papers of interest to Metropolis network members. These include:

Mary Pat MacKinnon, Judith Maxwell, Steven Rosell, and Nandini Saxena Citizens’ Dialogue on Canada’s Future: A 21^st Century Social Contract

David Laycock Framing the Canadian Social Contract: Integrating Social, Economic and Political Values Since 1940

F. Leslie Seidle The Federal Role in Canada’s Cities: Overview of Issues and Proposed Actions

F. Leslie Seidle Electoral System Reform in Canada: Objectives, Advocacy and Implications for Governance

J. David Hulchanski Housing Policy for Tomorrow’s Cities

Anne-Marie Séguin and Gérard Divay Urban Poverty: Fostering Sustainable and Supportive Communities

Martin Papillon Immigration, Diversity and Social Inclusion in Canada’s Cities

Alain Noel A Law Against Poverty: Quebec’s New Approach to Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion

Citizenship Studies

Volume 6, Number 4 of Citizenship Studies contains several papers by Metropolis researchers and others:

Daiva Stasiulis Introduction: Reconfiguring Canadian Citizenship

Janine Brodie Citizenship and Solidarity: Reflections on the Canadian Way

Janet Siltanen Paradise Paved? Reflections on the Fate of Social Citizenship in Canada

James Sákéj; Youngblood Henderson Sui Generis and Treaty Citizenship

Danielle Juteau The Citizen Makes an Entrée: Redefining the National Community in Quebec

Yasmeen Abu-Laban Liberalism, Multiculturalism and the Problem of Essentialism

Brenda Cossman Sexing Citizenship, Privatizing Sex

Daiva Stasiulis The Active Child Citizen: Lessons from Canadian Policy and the Children's Movement

Community Health Research Unit

CHRU has a series of working papers available on-line at http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/med/epid/location.htm

Papers include:

J. Boulet and N. Edwards Mammography and Clinical Breast Examination Amongst Non-Immigrant and Immigrant Women in Ontario.

N. Edwards Evaluation of a Postnatal Hospital Liaison Referral System For Immigrants

F. Aminzadeh and N. Edwards Perceptions, Attitudes and Social Norms Influencing Fall Prevention Behaviours: Views of British-Canadian and Italian Seniors

Nancy Edwards Cultural Factors in Tobacco Use Among Ethnic Groups in Canada

Hauser Centre for Nonprofit Organizations

The Hauser Centre for Nonprofit Organizations is an interdisciplinary research centre at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. It seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical thinking about nonprofit organizations and civil society.

It publishes a working paper series including:

Peter Dobkin Hall and Colin B. Burke Historical Statistics of the United States Chapter on Voluntary, Nonprofit, and Religious Entities and Activities: Underlying Concepts, Cocnerns and Opportunities

This and other working papers can be found at http://ksghauser.harvard.edu/

Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)

IPPR is a UK think tank mandated to be a force for change to produce a fairer, more inclusive and more environmentally sustainable world.

It has recently launched a new project on housing and inequality. The research project aims to put forward policy ideas that can shape a radical new approach to reducing housing inequality.

In addition, it has launched a report entitled States of Conflict: Causes and Patterns of Forced Migration to the EU and Policy Responses. The report explores refugee trends in ten western European countries.

Other studies include:

Secure Borders, Safe Havens: Integration with Diversity in Modern Britain

Anja Rudiger and Sarah Spencer Meeting the Challenge: Equality, Diversity and Cohesion in the European Union

Sarah Spencer Should the Single Equality Commission be able to Protect Human Rights?"

For information please contact Sue Regan at s.regan@ippr.org or visit the IPPR website at www.ippr.org.uk

Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)

Studies on immigration currently underway include:

"Immigration Policy in Canada: A Comparison of the Use of Discretion in the Selection Process by Federal and Quebec Officers"

"The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion : Immigration and Citizenship Issues in Three Democracies"

"Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Harmonizing Our Immigration Policy with that of the United States"

"La gestion des migrations internationales et sa juridicisation"

"The Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board : Examining Canada's Institutional Framework from a Comparative Perspective"

"The Immigration Triangle : Quebec, Canada and the Rest of the World"

"Immigrants, Markets and Rights : Regulating Migration in Europe and North America"

"Skills Competition : North America and Beyond"

"Using Immigrants' Skills to Their Potential: Policy Options"

For more information visit http://irpp.org

Laidlaw Foundation

The Laidlaw Foundation has posted nine more papers in their social inclusion series at http://www.laidlawfdn.org

Martha Friendly and Donna Lero Social Inclusion for Canadian Children Through Early Childhood Education and Care

Terry Wotherspoon The Dynamics of Social Inclusion: Public Education and Aboriginal People in Canada

Peter Donnelly and Jay Coakley Promoting Social Inclusion Through Recreation

Meg Luxton Feminist Perspectives on Social Inclusion and Children’s Well-Being

Andrew Mitchell and Richard Shillington Poverty, Inequality and Social Inclusion

Catherine Frazee Thumbs Up! Inclusion, Rights and Equality as Experienced by Youth With Disabilities

Anver Saloojee Social Inclusion, Citizenship and Diversity: Moving Beyond the Limits of Multiculturalism

Ratna Omidvar and Ted Richmond Towards the Social Inclusion of New Canadians

Related Events

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

Social Developments in Canada: Moving Forward"
(Ottawa, Canada 15-17 June 2003)
socconf@uottawa.ca

Intercultural Education
(Jyvaskyla, Finland 15-18 June 2003)
http://www.jyu.fi/ktl/unesco2003/

Migration, Race and Ethnicity in Europe
(Salzburg, Austria 17-24 June 2003)
http://www.salzburgseminar.org

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

Multicultural Days
(St Catherines, Canada 27-28 June 2003)
dzinga@brocku.ca

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

UK National Integration Conference: Research Informing Practice
(Birmingham, United Kingdom 30 June – 1 July 2003)
anna-maria.trimblett@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Capitalizing on Our Differences: Leadership Across Cultural Boundaries
(Salzburg, Austria 2-9 July 2003)
http://www.salzburgseminar.org/sessions.cfm?core_id=552&core_group=core

36^th 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

Reading the Emigrant Letter
(Ottawa, Canada 7-9 August 2003)
http://www.carleton.ca/cchm

The Many Faces of Pluralism
(Detroit, U.S.A. 11-12 September 2003)
aa1277@wayne.edu

Across Time and Space: Visions of Canada from Abroad
(Kamloops, Canada 12-14 September 2003)
http://www.cariboo.bc.ca

International Governance After ‘September 11’
(Belfast, Northern Ireland 24-26 September 2003)
http://www.governance.qub.ac.uk

17^th Biennial Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference
(Theme: Ethnicity: Space and Place)
(Banff, Canada 2-4 October 2003)
tseiler@ucalgary or kalbach@ucalgary.ca

National Settlement Conference II
(Calgary, Canada 2-5 October 2003)
http://integration-net.cic.gc.ca

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

Crossing the Borders of Territoriality
(Ottawa, Canada 17-18 October 2003)
hpelleri@uottawa.ca

Recognizing Learning: Building Capacity in a Knowledge Economy
(Winnipeg, Canada 19-22 October 2003)
http://www.capla.ca

International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas
(Perth, Australia 29-30 November 2003)
enquiries@keynotewa.com

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

Calls for Papers/Proposals

Journal of Human Rights and the Muslim World

This new journal welcomes contributions that apply the traditional human rights framework in their analysis as well as those that transcend the boundaries of contemporary scholarship in this regard. The journal encourages inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches in an effort to encourage the emergence of new methodologies in the field. For more information please contact Lea Dooley at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto) (416) 736-5046.

 

 

Portuguese Studies Review: Special Theme Issue

Papers for a special issue entitled "The Portuguese in Canada: Presence, Progress and Prospects" is expected to be published in January 2004. Send submissions to psr@trentu.ca and fernando.nunes@utoronto.ca . by September 15, 2003.

 

Metropolis Notes

Carl Amrhein, long-time member of the Toronto Centre of Excellence (CERIS) will leave his post as Dean of the faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto to take up the post of Vice President Academic for the University of Alberta beginning September 2003.