News Flashes From Metropolis

August 20, 1999 (Vol. 2 No. 4)

In This Edition:

• Centre of Excelence Update
• Federal Partner Update
• Metropolis Events
• Web News
• Related Events
• Calls for Papers/Proposals
• Metropolis Comings and Goings

News Flashes focuses on providing timely information (bimonthly) concentrating on results, upcoming events, and updates on the various experiments underway at any given time. It is your communications device, please make use of it. To get information placed in News Flashes, or to comment on its content or structure, please contact John Biles at (819) 997-5791 ( john_biles@pch.gc.ca ).

The latest issue of the Immigration et metropoles newsletter provides an overview of the Montreal Centre’s 1999- 2001 research plan. The overall priorities underlying the plan are twofold:

- reinforce comparative analysis and
- intensify research dissemination efforts.

For more information about the Montreal Centre research plan you can contact the Centre at Metropolis@ere.umontreal.ca

The Toronto Centre (CERIS) has announced the results of its 1999 Funding competition. The five projects selected for funding are described in the latest issue (June 1999) of the CERIS newsletter. The five projects are titled:

Civic Participation and Homeland Ties: A Comparative Study of Croatians and Sri Lankan Tamils in the Greater Toronto Area
(Daphne Winland, York University and Sarah Wayland, Brock University)

An Analysis of Socioeconomic Situation by Ethnocultural Groups, Periods of Immigration and Gender for Canada and Toronto CMA: 1986, 1991 and 1996 Compared
(Edward Harvey, University of Toronto)

Cultural Resources, Ethnic Strategies and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study of Six Ethnic Groups in the Toronto CMA
(Lucia Lo, York University)

Thanks for Asking Us: A Public Legal Education Project for Immigrant Women in Domestic Violence Situations
(Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto)

Pathways to Housing: The Experience of Refugees in Accessing Permanent Housing in Toronto (Robert Murdie, York University)

For more information about these projects, contact the CERIS office at ceris.office@utoronto.ca

Prairie Centre

The Prairie Centre (PCERII) has announced the successful projects from its 1999-2000 call for proposals. The seven research grants are:

Heritage Language Learning and Ethnic Identity Maintenance: A Case Study of Chinese-Canadian Adolescents in Calgary
(Henry Chow, University of Calgary)

A Comparison of Citizenship Concepts in LINC Programs with those of French Language Programs for Adult Immigrants
(Tracey Derwing, University of Alberta)

The Context and Function of Canadian and Cultural Identities Among First and Second Generation Immigrants
(Peter Grant, University of Saskatchewan)

The Changing Colour of Poverty: A Study of Immigrants’ Poverty in Canadian Cities
(Shiva Halli, University of Manitoba)

Earnings and Employment of Visible Minority Immigrants
(Derek Hum, University of Manitoba)

New Canadian Children and Youth Study (NCCYS)
(Linda Ogilvie, University of Alberta)

Relations Among Informal Learning, Educational Credentials and Work Transitions Among Immigrants
(Terry Wotherspoon, University of Saskatchewan)

For more information about these projects, contact the PCERII office at kmckean@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

Vancouver Centre

The latest papers in the Vancouver Centre’s (RIIM) Working Paper Series include:

Transnational Migration and Nation: Burmese Refugees in Vancouver
(Jennifer Hyndman and Margaret Walton-Roberts)

Problems and Strategies of Chinese Immigrants: A Study of the Restaurant Sector in the Dutch Labor Market
(Kangqing Zhang)

Immigration and Metropolitan House Prices in Canada
(David Ley and Judith Tutchener)

Reconstituting the Family: Negotiating Immigration and Settlement
(Gillian Creese, Isabel Dyck, and Arlene McLaren)

(Re)shaping ‘Chinese’ Business Networks in a Globalizing Era
(Kris Olds and Henri Wai-chung Yeung)

Immigration, Neighbourhood Change, and Racism: Immigrant Reception in Richmond, B.C.
(John Rose)

For more information about these projects, contact the RIIM office at riim@sfu.ca

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Mid-Term Review of the Metropolis Project

The Mid-Term Review of the Metropolis Project is now complete. All site visit committees have submitted their reports. In general the reports are extremely positive, applauding the Centres’ efforts in establishing effective partnerships with the community and with policy-makers and in producing large quantities of high quality research. The Mid-Term Review was undertaken to assess the Centres’ activities to date and to decide on whether to fund the project for the period 2000-2002. For more information about the Review, please contact
Patricia Dunne at pxd@sshrc.ca

The Multiculturalism Program has completed a first draft of data highlights regarding the Charitable Contributions of the Foreign-born in Canada from the 1997 Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating. These highlights will be presented at the Fourth International Metropolis Conference.
For more information please contact Fernando Mata at fernando_mata@pch.gc.ca

The CERIS Research Retreat, originally planned for June 25, has been rescheduled to September 22, from 9:30 to 4:00. As for the past two years, the CERIS Research Retreat will bring together researchers with community and government partners to evaluate its research portfolio and

identify research priorities. The retreat will help identify the priority areas for CERIS’s next Request for Proposals (RFP) which will allocate the research agenda and funding for 2000-2002.

This year’s Retreat will have a new format, attempting an integrative approach. In the morning the federal partners will present their research priorities. A question period will follow each presentation and there will be more time for discussion in the afternoon, during the planned domain sessions.
For further information, contact the CERIS office at ceris.office@utoronto.ca

The Prairie Centre will hold its second regional workshop at the Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary, October 21-23, 1999. The theme of the workshop is "Meeting the Metropolis Challenge: Research Coordination and Dissemination Amongst Stakeholders."

This workshop aims to bring together stakeholders of the PCERII, including service providers, representatives of immigrant serving agencies and other NGO’s, policy makers at different levels of government, and university researchers. The goals of the workshop are to:

Those interested in participating should contact
Kelly McKean. Telephone: (780) 492-0898;
FAX: (780) 492-2594; e-mail: kmckean@ualberta.ca

The Migration Policy Group, a participant in the International Metropolis Project, will host a small seminar November 9-10 on the economic foundation of minority communities. Specific initaitives from eight cities (4 European and 4 North American) will be considered.

Participants will include governmental and corporate representatives along with researchers from the European Union, the United States and Canada.

For more information please contact Jan Niessen at
101324.622@compuserve.com

The initial announcement of the Fourth International Metropolis Conference has been posted on the Metropollis websites. The announcement contains descriptions of the plenary sessions and of the thirty four workshops. In addition, it includes registration information. Participants are encouraged to register early to avoid increases in registration fees.

The preliminary programme will be posted on the website in early October. If you would like to receive a copy of this programme when it becomes available please contact
Yasmin Santiago (yasmin@ceip.org) or
John Biles (john_biles@pch.gc.ca).

CERIS is hosting the Fourth National Metropolis Conference in Toronto from March 22 to 25, 2000 at the Metropolitan Hotel. Those interested in planning sessions or presenting papers should contact Marie Truelove or Ted Richmond through the CERIS Toronto office at ceris.office@utoronto.ca

Web News

With the major software and hardware upgrade behind us, there is now a renewed emphasis on making the Metropolis network of web sites the resource of choice for researchers and policy-makers working in immigration. This includes:

The popularity of the network continues to grow with more visitors each month. The Canadian site is now getting just under 800 visitors a week and the entire network, all 6 sites, is receiving almost 1,100 visitors / week.

With the new capabilities of the network, more features and functions are expected soon.

The Next Millennium Conference: Ending Domestic Violence
(Rosemont, Illinois August 29-September 1, 1999)
www.dvmillennium.org

Researching Culture: An International Interdisciplinary Conference
(London, U.K. September 10-12, 1999)
www.unl.ac.uk/SICS/culture.htm

International and Local Migration Policies,
(Lisbon, Portugal September 1999)
European Migration Centre
migratio@zdat.fu-berlin.de

Nationalism, Identity and Minority Rights,
(Bristol, U.K. September 16-19, 1999)
nat-conf@bris.ac.uk

Sixth International Congress of the Mexican Association of Canadian Studies
(Mexico City, September 21-23, 1999)
Maria Cristina Rosas
mcrosas@dfl.telmex.net.mx

Migration in the Asia Pacific B the last 30 years and the next 30 years
(Tokyo, Japan September 23-27, 1999)
www.unesco.org/most/apmrnco3.htm

Global Justice/Women’s Rights
(New Haven, Connecticut October 1-2, 1999)
June Dunn
Womenstudies@scsu.ct.stateu.edu

Re-Imagining Multiculturalism
(Melbourne, Australia October 1-3, 1999)
Anna Dacre
Anna.dacre@arts.monash.edu.au

Whither Multiculturalism? Critical Perspectives from Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands
(Leuven, Belgium October 7-8, 1999)
Leen d’Haenens
l.dhaenens@maw.kun.nl

World Politics: Women Moving to the Centre Stage
(Des Moines, Iowa October 8-10, 1999)
cattcntr@iastate.edu

Violence, Responsibility and Reconciliation
(Santa Barbara, California October 9-11, 1999)
Alexandar Jokic
sjokic@sbcc.sbceo.k12.ca.us

Seminar on Education for Citizenship: Preparation in Schools for Full Participation in Democracy and Adult Life
(London, U.K. October 10-15, 1999)
www.britcoun.org/seminars

Shaping the Future: Qualification Recognition in the 21st Century
(Toronto October 13-15, 1999)
pacrim@cyberus.ca

Global Perspectives on Personhood: Rights and Responsibilities
(Calgary October 16, 1999)
Susan Austen
gpopconf@ucalgary.ca

Global City-Regions Conference
(Los Angeles October 21-23, 1999)
http://www.sppsr.ucla.edu/globalcityregions

Citizens at the Crossroads: Whose Information Society?
(London, Ontario October 21-24, 1999)
Manjunath Pendakur
pendakur@julian.uwo.ca

Multiculturalism, Identity and Citizenship
(Valencia, Spain October 26-30, 1999)
Faust Ripoll
[Tel] 34-96-3519676
American Studies Association
(Montreal, October 28-31, 1999)
www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asanews/news699/prelim.html

Public Policy Analysis and Management: Global and Comparative Perspectives
(Washington D.C. November 4-6, 1999)
Erik Devereux
Appam@ui.urban.org

International Conference on Cultural Policy Research
(Bergen, Norway November 10-12, 1999)
www.uib.no/kul/iccpr

Nationalism, Citizenship and National Identity in Canada
(Sackville, New Brunswick November 11-13, 1999)
Raymond Blake OR Andrew Nurse
Rblake@mta OR anurse@mta.ca

Mexico and Canada in the Face of Globalization
(Puebla, Mexico November 11-12, 1999)
mcrosas@dfl.telmex.net.mx

History and Theory Conference
(Irvine, California November 13-14, 1999)
Theme: Sex, Gender and Culture
http://wwww.hnet.uci.edu/history/history&theory

American Anthropological Association’s Annual meeting
(Chicago November 17-21, 1999)
Theme: Time at the Millennium
www.ameranthassn.org

Fifth Annual UNESCO/ACEID Conference
(Bangkok, Thailand December 13-16, 1999)
www.escap-hrd.org/aceid.htm

Second Conference on the Economic Embeddedness of Immigrant Enterprises
(Jerusalem June 18-20, 2000)
http://home.pscw.uva.nl/rath

Crossroads in Cultural Studies
(Birmingham, U.K. June 21-25, 2000)
crossroads@css.bham.ac.uk

International Cultural Research Congress Xi’an 2000
(Xi’an, China June 28-July 3, 2000)
sgoski@edc.gov.ab.ca

Contributions des émigrantes européenes au Canada
(Nantes, France July 6-8, 2000)
francoise.lejeune@humana.univ-nantes.fr

European Cities: Networks and Crossroads
(Berlin, Germany August 31-Sepetember 2, 2000)
d.rowe@roehampton.ac.uk

The Global Challenges Opportunities Network (GCON) has put out a request for proposals (RFP) on Transnational Crime, to explore Trafficking in Human Beings. The RFP is posted on the Open Bidding System. The GCON - Transnational Crime Working Group, chaired by Solicitor General Canada, is one of five interdepartmental working groups of the Federal Government’s Policy Research Initiative (PRI). GCON is the only interdepartmental research network of the PRI exclusively dedicated to addressing the international dimensions of Canadian public policy.
For more details on GCON access http://policyresearch.gc.ca

The CRRF’s 1999 RFP focusing on employment equity, racism and youth is available on their website at www.crr.ca Proposals are due by October 28, 1999.

Abstracts of proposed papers for this conference to be held in Sydney, Australia December 14-15, 2000 are due by October 30, 1999. For more information please check the website at http://www.man-bus.mmu.ac.uk/confs/apros or e-mail Stewart Clegg at s.clegg@uts.edu.au

Submissions for this collection of scholarly essays should be sent to Adrienne Shadd at 668411@voyageurs.net or Afua Cooper at acooper@chass.utoronto.ca by April 30, 2000.

Abstracts for presentations at this conference planned for Singapore on November 20-22, 1999 are due by September 15, 1999. For more information please contact Stella Quah at socquahs@nus.edu.sg

Metropolis Comings and Goings

The Metropolis Project Team welcomes Ayesha Rekhi, a Foreign Service Officer, who has been with Metropolis since June. She will be working with the Project Team until December 1999, and again, for a shorter term, in the Spring of 2000.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has a new Minister. Elinor Caplan replaces Lucienne Robillard who is now responsible for the Treasury Board.

Jane Stewart has replaced Pierre Pettigrew as Minister responsible for Human Resources Development Canada.

Joe Garcea has resigned from his position as domain leader for the Citizenship and Political domain at the Prairie Centre to chair of the Task Force on Municipal Legislative Renewal for the City of Saskatoon.