Sept. –Nov. 2003
(Vol. 4 Nos. 5&6)
Partner Update
Metropolis Events
Products
Related Initiatives
Related Events
Calls for Papers/Proposals
Metropolis Notes
Dispatches provide timely bimonthly information 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
Partner Update
Australia
The Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs has posted its annual report on-line at http://www.immi.gov.au/annrep03/report02.htm
Canada
The Access Alliance Multicultural Community Health Centre (AAMCHC) has finalized its report entitled Best Practices for Working with Homeless Immigrants and Refugees. To obtain a copy, please contact AAMCHC in Toronto at (416) 324-8677.
The Association for Canadian Studies has published a special issue of their magazine Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne on the theme of “Canada’s Ethnic Question.” Longer versions of these articles can be found in Canadian Ethnic Studies (Vol XXXv, No. 1, 2003). Copies of the magazine can be ordered from http://www.acs-aec.ca and copies of the journal can be ordered from http://www.ucalgary.ca/CESA
The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University has posted Luin Goldring’s working paper Re-thinking remittances: Social and Political Dimensions of Individual and Collective Remittances on-line at http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/ABSTRACTS.htm#Goldring
The Centre for Research and Information on Canada has released a new report entitled A Changing People: Being Canadian in a New Century. It can be found on-line at http://www.cric.ca
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
§ The Fall 2003 issue of The Monitor includes information on immigrants, foreign workers, foreign students citizenship and international adoptions. It can be found at: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/monitor/pdf/issue-03e.pdf
The Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association has published the final report from its 2003 Nova Scotia Partnerships Conference. It can be found at http://www.misa.ns.ca/NS_IP/conference.htm
The final report of the Migration Health Conference held in March 2003 in Ottawa can be found at http://www.alphaweb.org/docs/Final_Report-14_08_2003-10_41_53.pdf
Statistics Canada and its partners have released data from a number of new surveys:
§ (With Canadian Heritage) the Ethnic Diversity Survey results are now available.
§ (With Citizenship and Immigration Canada) the results of wave 1 of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada are now available.
For more information consult Statistics Canada’s website at: http://www.statcan.ca
The Analytic Studies Branch of Statistics Canada has posted new papers to its research paper series including:
Abdurrahman Aydemir Effects of Business Cycles on the Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
J. Myles and F. Hou Neighbourghood Attainment and residential Segregation Among Toronto’s Visible Minorities
These and more can be found at http://www.statcan.ca
Germany
The latest paper in the Institute for the Study of Labor’s working paper series is Sergiy Pivnenko and Don DeVoretz The Recent Economic Performance of Ukranian Immigrants in Canada and the U.S. It can be found at: http://iza.org
International Labour Organization
The ILO’s International Labour Programme includes three primary components:
§ Forging an International Consensus on How to Manage Migration
§ Building the Knowledge Base on International Migration
§ Protecting Rights of Migrant Workers and Promoting Integration in Countries of Destination and Countries of Origin
As a contribution to building the knowledge base on international migration, the ILO maintains an active series of migration papers (nearly 60). They can be found on-line at http://www.ilo.org/migrant In 2003, these papers include:
Martin Ruhs Temporary Foreign Worker Programmes: Policies, Adverse Consequences and the Need to Make Them Work
Piyasiri Wickramasekara Policy Responses to Skilled Migration: Retention, Return and Circulation
Patrick Taran y Eduardo Geronimi Globalization, Labour and Migration: Protection is Paramount
Patrick Taran and Gloria Moreno-Fontes Chammartin Getting at the Roots: Stopping Exploitation of Migrant Workers by Organized Crime
Deike Fuchs and Thomas Straubhaar Economic Integration in the Caribbean: The Development Towards a Common Labour Market
IOM
The IOM has published a range of reports including:
World Migration 2003: Managing Migration: Challenges and Responses for People on the Move.”
Joanna Apap and Felicita Medved Protection Schemes for Victims of Trafficking in Selected EU Member Countries, Candidate and Third Countries.
Bimal Ghosh Elusive Protection, Uncertain Lands: Migrants’ Access to Human Rights
Copies of publications can be ordered from http://www.iom.int
ISMU
The Foundation for Initiatives and Studies on Multi-Ethnicity (ISMU) was founded in 2001 with the transformation of the earlier Cariplo ISMU Foundation set up in 1991. The aim of the Foundation is to promote and support initiatives that will foster an understanding of and interventions in various aspects of a multi-ethnic society, in the historical context in which it is embodied. In particular, the core concern of the Foundation's work is migration in the broad framework of the processes now under way.
ISMU has published its Eighth Italian Report on Migrations covering events of 2002. This volume provides a picture of migration-related activity in Italy, the European Union and around the world. It can be found on-line at http://www.ismu.org
Norway
The Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development has posted a variety of material on immigration and refugee policies on its website at http://www.dep.no/krd/engelsk/ Of particular interest are both the statistics in Norway’s annual SOPEMI report and an on-going consultation on multiculturalism in Norway.
United Kingdom
Recent research studies available on the Home Office website (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk) include:
Chris Atwood, Gurchand Singh, Duncan Prime, Rebecca Creasey et. al. 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey: People, Families and Communities
Beverly Morgan, Verity Gelthorpe, Heaven Crawley and Gareth A. Jones Country of Origin Information: A User and Content Evaluation
Amanda Thornton, Chris Hatton, Caroline Malone, Tamsin Fryer, David Walker, Joanne Cunningham and Nazia Durrani Distraction Burglary Amongst Older Adults and Ethnic Minority Communities.
Roger Zetter, David Griffiths, Silva Ferretti and Martyn Pearl An Assessment of the Impact of Asylum Policies in Europe 1990-2000.
UNESCO
The International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS) has published its most recent issue focused on the theme “Multiculturalism and Political Integration in Modern Nation-States”. It can be found at: http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php@URL_ID=2547&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Articles include:
John Rex and Gurharpal Singh Multiculturalism and Political Integration in Modern Nation-States: Thematic Introduction
Edward A. Tiryakian Assessing Multiculturalism Theoretically: E Pluribus Unum, Sic et Non
Gurharpal Singh Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain: Reflections on the ‘Leicester Model’
Frank-Olaf Radtke Multiculturalism in Germany: Local Management of Immigrants’ Social Inclusion
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden Multiculturalism in France
Hideki Tarumoto Multiculturalism in Japan: Citizenship Policy for Immigrants
United States
The Migration Information Source of the Migration Policy Institute has added more international migration data for the United States and Norway to its Global Data Centre. In addition, special issues focusing on immigrant integration and development have been posted.
The Migration Information Source can be found at http://www.migrationinformation.org
Metropolis Events
Eighth International Metropolis Conference
The Eighth International Metropolis Conference was held 15-19 September 2003 in Vienna, Austria. Nearly 700 international experts met to discuss the theme “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 workshop summaries and presentations that will be posted as they are made available.
Seventh National Metropolis Conference
The Seventh National Metropolis Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada March 25-28, 2004. The general theme is “Immigration and Integration at the Heart of the Debate.” Plenary sessions will address: immigration and the labour market; migratory flux as seen through the lens of international relations; discrimination and citizenship; globalization and the challenges of linguistic and cultural diversity; and immigration and the arts. The call for workshop proposals can be found on-line. Proposals are due by December 5.
Ninth International Metropolis Conference
The Ninth International Metropolis Conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland September 27 – October 1, 2004. The theme will be “Co-operative Migration Management: International, National and Local Answers.” The call for workshop proposals can be found on the Metropolis website. Deadline for proposals is February 27, 2004.
Products
Statistical Observatory at the Montreal Metropolis Centre (IM)
An updated and revamped statistical observatory can be found on the Montreal Centre’s website at http://www.im.metropolis.net
New Working Papers from the Prairie Metropolis Centre (PCERII)
Derek Cook and Valerie Pruegger Attraction and Retention of Immigrants: Policy Implications for the City of Calgary
Harvey Krahn, Tracey M. Derwing and Baha Abu-Laban The Retention of Newcomers in Second and Third Tier Cities in Canada
All papers can be found at http://www.pcerii.metropolis.net
New Working Papers from the Toronto Metropolis Centre of Excellence (CERIS)
Mehrunnisa A. Ali, Svitlana Taraban and Jagjeet Kaur Gill Unaccompanied/Separated Children Seeking Refugee Status in Ontario: A Review of Documented Policies and Practices
Michael Doucet Bibliography on Immigration and Settlement in the Toronto area, Second Edition
Joanne Anneke Rummens and Rajko Seat Assessing the Impact of the Kosovo Conflict on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Newcomer Serbian Children and Youth in the Greater Toronto Area
June Y. Yee, Carolyn M. Johns, Sandra Tam and Noeline Paul-Apputhurai Apprenticeship Opportunities and Barriers for Immigrant Youth in the Greater Toronto Area
Papers can be ordered from CERIS at http://www.ceris.metropolis.net
New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence
Don J. DeVoretz, Sergiy Pivnenko, and Diane Coulombe The Immigration Triangle: Québec, Canada and the Rest of the World
David W. Edgington, Michael A. Goldberg, Thomas A. Hutton
The Hong Kong Chinese in Vancouver
Margaret Walton-Roberts and Geraldine Pratt
Mobile Modernities: One South Asian Family Negotiates Immigration, Gender and Class
Leonie Sandercock
Rethinking Multiculturalism for the 21st Century
Daniel Hiebert and David Ley
Characteristics of Immigrant Transnationalism in Vancouver
Sin Yih Teo
Imagining Canada: The Cultural Logics of Migration Amongst PRC Immigrants
All papers can be found at http://www.riim.metropolis.net
Recent Publications by Metropolis Researchers
Paul Anisef and Michael Lanphier eds. The World in a City. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Stephen Castles and Mark Miller eds. The Age of Migration, Third Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Guilford Press, 2003.
Leo Dreidger. Race and Ethnicity: Finding Identities and Equalities Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Dhooleka S. Raj Where Are You From? Middle-class Migrants in the Modern World. University of California Press, 2003.
Jan Rath and Robert Kloosterman eds. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Venturing Abroad in the Age of Globalization. New York University Press, 2003.
Jeffrey . Reitz ed. Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants. USMEX Press, 2003.
Related Initiatives
Barrow Cadbury Trust
The Barrow Cadbury Trust is mandated to encourage a just, equal, peaceful and democratic society. One of its seven programmes, the Asylum, Immigration and Resettlement Program, is of particular interest. The main areas of concern for this programme are: 1) the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants; and 2) the settlement needs of refugees, where initiatives can effect change in policy and practice. Information on this and its other granting programs can be found at http://www.barrowcadbury.org.uk
Demos
Demos is an independent think-tank that connects researchers, thinkers and practitioners. Demos is organised around five themes: democracy, learning, enterprise, quality of life and global change.
Recent publications include:
Inside Out: Rethinking Inclusive Communities
Theo Veenkamp, Tom Bentley and Alessandra Buonfino People Flow: Managing Migration in a New European Commonwealth
For more information visit http://www.demos.co.uk
ENAR
The European Network Against Racism ENAR is a network of European NGOs working to combat racism in all EU member states. It has recently published a discussion document entitled Belief and Exclusion: Combating Religious Discrimination in Europe It can be found on-line at http://www.enar-eu.org
EUMC
The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia is an independent body of the European Union established in 1997. It is mandated to provide the EU and its members states with objective, reliable and comparable data at the European level on racism and xenophobia.
It has established a tremendous on-line database of materials that can be found at http://eumc.eu.int Recent published research reports include:
Christopher Allen and Jorgen S. Nielsen Islampahobia in th EU After 11 September 2001
Yvonne Bemelmans and Maria José Freitas Situation of Islamic Communities in five European Cities
Jessica ter Wal ed. Racism and Cultural Diversity in the Mass Media
Breaking the Barriers – Romani Women and Access to Public Health Care
Scalabrini Migration Centre (SMC)
The Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC) is a non-profit research institute established in 1987 and based in Manila, Philippines. SMC is dedicated to encourage and facilitate the study of socio-demographic, economic, political, psychological, historical, legislative and religious aspects of human migration and refugee movements from and within Asia. It publishes the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. More information can be found at http://www.smc.org.ph
Related Events
Religion, Rights and Responsibilities, or Religion and Equal Rights in a Pluralistic Democracy
(Denmark 4-5 December 2003)
larsbindrup@mail.tele.dk
Immigrant Tourist Industry
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7-9 December 2003)
rath@pscw.uva.nl
International Workshop on Inter-Culturalism
(Santiago, Chile 10-12 December 2003)
mcastro@uchile.cl
Women and Migration in Asia
(Delhi, India 10-13 December 2003)
dcreworkshop@hotmail.com
American Economics Association
(San Diego, USA 3-5 January 2004)
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/anmt.htm
Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion
(Rouen, France 7-9 January 2004)
http://sochist.ntu.ac.uk/conferences.htm
American Economics Association
(Philadelphia, USA 7-9 January 2004)
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/anmt.htm
Pluralisme Culturel et Identités Régionales au Canada et dans L’Europe des Régions
(France 15-16 January 2004)
33 (0) 5 55 56 84 42 81
Trust and Social Capital in Multicultural Cities
(Athens, Greece 19-20 January 2004)
http://www.feem.it/engime
Sixty Years of Diplomatic Relationships Between Mexico and Canada: Constructing the North American Community
(Mazatlan, Mexico 3-5 February 2004)
marietta@amec.com.mx
Figures Historiques et Identités Francopones au Canada
(Ottawa, Canada 6-7 February 2004)
mfort002@uottawa.ca
Challenging Cities: Towards a New Urban Agenda for Canada
(Montreal, Canada 12-14 February 2004)
http://www.misc-iecm.mcgill.ca/EN/events/uc.html
Culturepoles: City Spaces, Urban Politics and Metropolitan Theory
(Hamilton, Canada 13-15 February 2004)
cacs@mcmaster.ca
Challenges of Diversity: Canada and India
(Jaipur, India 23-25 February 2004)
santoshg26@yahoo.com
Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Conflict in Multicultural Societies
(Mumbai, India 3-5 March 2004)
indiramunshi@hotmail.com
International Atlantic Economic Conference
(Lisbon, Portugal 10-15 March 2004)
http://www.iaes.org/conferences/index.htm
Population Association of America
(Boston, USA 1-3 April 2004)
http://www.popassoc.org
9th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities
(New York City, U.S.A. 15-17 April 2004)
http://www.nationalities.org
Constitutionalism and Cultural Pluralism: Lessons from Canada
(Edinburgh, U.K. 28-29 April 2004)
stephen.tierney@ed.ac.uk
CASCA 2004: Citizenship and Public Space
(London, Canada 6-9 May 2004)
www.ssc.uwo.ca/anthropology/casca
International Congress of Cultural Heritage
(Cordoba, Argentina 6-9 May 2004)
mfranche@faudi.unc.edu.ar
72th Congrès de l’association francophone pour le savoir
(Montreal, Canada 10-14 May 2004)
http://www.acfas.ca/congres
From Emigrante to Canadese: The Italian-Canadian Project
(Hull, Canada 14-16 May 2004)
ecosta@yorku.ca
Imagining Diasporas: Space, Identity and Social Change
(Winsor, Canada 14-16 May 2004)
http://www.uwindsor.ca/diasporas
Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities
(Winnipeg, Canada 29 May – 5 June 2004)
http://hssfc.ca/english/congress/congress.html
History of Human Rights
(London, U.K. May 2004)
kklinger@wienerlibrary.co.uk
Niches, Ethnicity and Gender
(Leiden, The Netherlands 17-18 June 2004)
http://www.let/leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/
Third International Conference on Cultural Policy
(Montreal, Canada 25-28 August 2004)
http://www.hec.ca/iccpr/callforpaper.html
12e Colloque de L’Association Internationale des Démographes de Langue Française
(Budapest, Hungary 20-24 September 2004)
http://www-aidelf.ined.fr/colloques/budapest.htm
Making Contact
(Cape Breton, Canada 14-16 October 2004)
http://www.uccbpress.ca/makingcontact.html
13th Nordic Migration Conference
(Aalborg, Denmark 18-20 November 2004)
http://www.amid.dk
Calls for Papers/Proposals
13th Nordic Migration Conference (Aalborg, Denmark 18-20 November 2004)
Panel and paper proposals are due by January 2004. For more information visit
http://www.amid.dk
Metropolis Notes
Christine Nassrallah, formerly the President of the Multicultural Council of Fredericton and a member of the Metropolis Atlantic Advisory Committee, has recently taken up a new challenge as the Director of Research and Policy for the Multiculturalism Program at the Department of Canadian Heritage.
