Canadian Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Immigration: Relations with Regional Per Capita Immigration and Other Contextual Factors by Douglas Palmer

Statistical Analysis of the World Values Survey: Executive Summary

In addition, the following papers, presented at the 1999 Canadian Economics Association Meetings, are also available:

Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings: Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends by P. Beaudry and D. Green. The paper can be found at http://web.arts.ubc.ca/econ/Green/HomePage.htm

Labour Market Performance of Recent Immigrants: the 1980s and 1990s Policy and Research Implications by Craig Dougherty (Craig.dougherty@8754bss@cina.cic.x400.gc.ca)

Immigrant Earnings: Language Skills, Linguistic Concentrations and the Business Cycle by Barry Chiswick (brchis@uic.edu) and P.W. Miller (pwm@ecel.uwa.edu.au).

Unemployment and Earnings of Recent Labour Market Entrants by Immigrant Status: Evidence for Australian men by J.T. McDonald (Ted.McDonald@utas.edu.au) and C. Worswick (c.worswick@ecomfac.unimelb.edu.au).

Status of Women

Status of Women is chairing the working group on Trafficking in Human Beings of the larger interdepartmental Global Challenges and Opportunities Network. The working group has recently awarded a research contract to Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez and Andréa Martinez of the Montreal Centre to conduct an exploratory study in the area. For more information please consult the Policy-Research Committee's website at www.policyresearch.gc.ca

Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

CMHC is collaborating with the Montreal Centre on a research project entitled: "l'insertion résidentielle des jeunes issus de l'immigration à Montréal." For further information, please contact Kim-Anh Lam at Klam@chmc-schl.gc.ca

Metropolis Events

Metropolis Conversation Series

The first two events in the Metropolis Conversation Series took place on November 19 and 29, 1999. The topics tackled were:

• Immigrant Absorptive Capacity (November 19) and
• The Experience of Immigrant Children and Second Generation Immigrants (November 29).

The events were widely judged to be successful. Summary documents should be available in the near future. For more information, please contact Katherine Pestieau at kp_metro@istar.ca

International Symposium on Migration Health

This Metropolis co-sponsored (with Health Canada and CIC) event took place December 6 and 7 in Montebello, Quebec with participants from Canada, Japan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This high level gathering discussed the implications of migration health trends for effective migration health policies of the future. The symposium was followed by a related workshop at the Fourth International Metropolis Conference in Washington on December 8. For more information, please contact Trong Nguyen at trong_nguyen@hc-sc.gc.ca

Urban Planning and Immigration Seminars

In cooperation with the Urban Forum and with the support of Canadian Heritage, the Metropolis Project Team is developing a series of seminars that will: a) examine how cities are being transformed by growing diversity; b) assess the importance of this transformation for urban planning; and c) explore how cities and city planners should respond to these changes in order to produce a desirable multicultural environment.

The four Cities involved (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver) are contributing with in-kind support and ideas. In Toronto, the seminar is being organized in cooperation with the Urban Studies Programme at York University; entitled "Planning in a Multicultural Region" it will take place on February 15th. For more information please contact Marcia Wallace at mwallace@yorku.ca. The others dates are to be determined. For more information on them, contact Jean Viel: jv_metro@istar.ca.

Fourth International Metropolis Conference
(Washington D.C., December 8-11, 1999)

The Fourth International Metropolis Conference attracted over 500 senior policy makers, researchers and NGOs to a four day event at the Georgetown University Conference Centre in Washington D.C. The plenary sessions and the thirty tightly focused workshops led to intense policy-research discussions, plans for collaborative projects, and a great deal of international networking activity. The results of this event are expected to contribute to an even more productive event next November at the Fifth International Metropolis Conference to be held in Vancouver (November 13-17, 2000).

Please watch the international Metropolis website for the conference proceedings, which should begin to appear in early January.

Fourth National Metropolis Conference
(Toronto March 22-25, 2000)

CERIS is hosting the Fourth National Metropolis Conference in Toronto from March 22 to 25, 2000 at the Metropolitan Hotel. The conference theme is "Working Together for the Future: Partnerships in Immigration Research and Policy." The three plenaries and many workshops will address issues and themes such as settlement needs of children and youth, immigrant and refugee women, social justice, racism and equity, and research partnerships. The preliminary program and registration form are posted on the CERIS site at http://www.ceris.metropolis.net. For more information, please contact Marie Truelove or Ted Richmond through the CERIS Toronto office at ceris.office@utoronto.ca. REGISTER EARLY as space is limited!

Fifth International Metropolis Conference
(Vancouver November 13-17, 2000)

Building on the experiences of the first four conferences in Milan (1996), Copenhagen (1997), Israel (1998), and Washington D.C. (1999), the Vancouver conference will aim to further intensify discussions amongst senior policy-makers, leading academics, and non-governmental actors in the fields of immigration and diversity through their participation in interactive plenary sessions and highly-focused, results-oriented workshops.

The themes of the conference are:

• Investing in the Future: The Changing Face of Youth
• Managing Gateways and Managing Change
• Building Social, Cultural and Economic Capital: The Case for Migration
• Creating Opportunity: Growth, Access and Equity

Given the exponential increase in the number of workshop proposals received for the Fourth International Metropolis Conference, this year we will have a formal competition for the 36 four hour workshop sessions available for the Fifth International Metropolis Conference.

Proposals submitted will be considered for adjudication if they are submitted no later than Friday March 17, 2000. The call for workshop proposals and the conference announcement can be found on the International Metropolis web site at www.international.metropolis.net.

Web News

To raise the profile of the Toronto Centre at York University, a CERIS webpage has been opened at York. It can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/research/ceris/index.htm.

The virtual library continues to expand rapidly. At last count there were 326 documents in the library (167 from Vancouver, 74 from Ottawa, 47 from the Prairies, 35 from Toronto, and 3 from Montreal). The inventory of experts has also grown quickly. At last count 176 experts were included (101 from the Prairies, 52 from Montreal, 21 from Ottawa, 2 from Vancouver, 0 from Toronto).

The number of visits to the websites continues to increase. It has exceeded 4000 visits a month for the national site, 500 for Vancouver, 400 for Toronto, 250 for Montreal, and 225 for the Prairie site.

Products

Proceedings from Third National Metropolis Conference

Proceedings from the conference held in Vancouver in January 1999 are now available from the Metropolis Project Team (dominique.groulx@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca) or from the Vancouver Centre (riim@sfu.ca). They will also be available on the Metropolis website shortly.

Journal of International Migration and Integration

The first issue of the Journal of International Migration and Integration will appear end of March 2000. The international editors are calling for research papers, including ones exploring questions of public policy. For more information call 780-492-0635 or email jimi@ualberta.ca .

New Working Papers from Vancouver

The latest working papers produced by the Vancouver Centre include:

Don DeVoretz Immigrants and Public Finance Transfers: Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal

John E. Hayfron A Double Cohort Analysis of Residential Overcrowding Among Immigrants in Norway

Diane Dagenais, Catherine Berron A Case Study of Mulitilingualism and Education Choices in Immigrant Families

Noah Lewin-Epstein, Moshe Semyonov Migration, Ethnicity and Inequality in Homeownership

Carl Mosk Convergence and Divergence in the Asia-Pacific: Economic and Demographic Integration between Asia and Pacific Canada

Published Papers

The Metropolis Project Team is striving to make published research based on Metropolis funded projects more accessible. One means of doing so is via the News Flashes, but an "index" is also under construction. If you have published papers/know of papers published based on Metropolis research, please contact Emmanuelle Lebeau at emmanuelle.lebeau@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca.

Ravi Pendakur and Fernando Mata "Patterns of Ethnic Identification and the "Canadian" Response" in Canadian Ethnic Studies. (XXX, No. 2, 1998).

Ravi Pendakur and Fernando Mata "Immigration, Labor Force Integration and the Pursuit of Self-Employment" in International Migration Review (Vol. 33, Summer 1999).

Gurchran S. Basron and Li Zong "Devaluation of foreign credentials as perceived by non-white professional immigrants." Canadian Ethnic Studies 30 (3):6-23.

Hugh M. Grant and Ronald R. Oertel "The supply and migration of Canadian physicians, 1970 -1995: Why we should learn to love an immigrant doctor." Canadian Journal of Regional Science 20 (1,2)

Hugh M. Grant and Ronald R. Oertel "Diminishing returns to immigration" Interpreting the "economic experience of Canadian immigrants." Canadian Ethnic Studies 30 (3):56-76.

Peter S. Li "Self-employment among visible minority immigrants, white immigrants, and native-born persons in secondary and tertiary industries in Canada." Canadian Journal of Regional Science 20 (1,2): 101-117, 1997.

Richard A. Wanner "Prejudice, profit or productivity: Explaining returns to human capital among male immigrants to Canada." Canadian Ethnic Studies 30 (3):24-55, 1998.

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Given that one of the objectives of the Metropolis Project is to encourage young researchers, the Project Team announced that it would purchase a bound copy of each relevant thesis or dissertation completed by a graduate student connected to the Project. The goal is to make student work more accessible to the Metropolis network. The latest addition to the resource centre is the dissertation by Liisa J.M. Cormode entitled "The International Circulation of Highly-Skilled Workers: Japanese-Affiliated Companies in Canada." For more information on her work, please contact Dr Cormode at cormode@duke.usask.ca.

If you are interested in contributing your work to the Metropolis resource centre, please contact John Biles at john_biles@pch.gc.ca.

Related Events

Statistics Canada Conference
Statistics Canada holds an annual economic conference to promote the exchange of empirical research among the business, government, research and labour communities. This year's conference will be held May 15-16, 2000 in Ottawa. It is entitled "Expanding Horizons: Canada in an International Context." For more information, please contact Jocelyne Lepage at lepajoc@statcan.ca.

The Asian Crisis II
(Seattle, Washington January 4-5, 2000)
http://faculty.washington.edu/karyiu/confer/sea00/index.htm

Annual Meeting of the American Economics Association
(Boston January 7-9, 2000)
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/anmt.htm

Georgia Political Science Association
(Hilton Head Island, South Carolina February 25-26, 2000)
mbaun@valdosta.edu

International Transdisciplinarity Conference
(Zurich, Switzerland February 27-March 1, 2000)
http://www.snf.ch/transdisciplinarity/home.html

Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference
(Toronto March 25-27, 2000)
Themes: Emergent diasporas, rights to identities, ethnic challenges to statecraft, reconfiguring institutional structures, and defining community at the millennium.
e-mail CESA 2000 Secretariat c/o Multicultural History Society of Ontario mhso.mail@utoronto.ca

Centre for Migration Studies Annual Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy
(Washington D.C. March 30-31, 2000)
www.cmsny.org

Generations: Women, Age and Difference
(Newcastle, U.K. April 15, 2000)
rosemary.white@unn.ac.uk

Canadian Anthropology Association
(Calgary May 4-7, 2000)
http://www.ss.ucalgary.ca/casca/default.html

Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland
(Killiney, Ireland May 12-14, 2000)
http://www.tcd.ie/French/parrisjackson/html

Congrès de l'association française pour l'avancement des sciences (Acfas)
(Montréal May 15-19, 2000)
http://www.acfas.ca

International Conference on Post-Soviet Youth: A Comparative Study
(Jerusalem May 22-23, 2000)
msrussia@mscc.huji.ac.il

Third National Policy History Conference
Bowling Green, Ohio June 1-3, 2000)
Drowney@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Global Migration: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice
(Vancouver June 1-3, 2000)
hellen.allen@ubc.ca

Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
(Edmonton May 24-June 3, 2000)
http://www.hssfc.ca/

Fifth Global Conference on Health Promotion
(Mexico City June 5-9, 2000)
http://www.who.int/hpr/hpr/conference/fifth/index.html

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

Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Family Studies
(Uppsala, Sweden June 20-23, 2000)
jan.trost@soc.uu.se

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

Third Annual Conference on Global Trade Analysis
(Melbourne June 28-30, 2000)
http://www.mteliza.edu.au/services/conferences/index.html

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

18th World Congress of Political Science
(Quebec August 1-6, 2000)
http://www.ucd.ie/~ipsa/congress.html

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

Knowledge, Power, Gender: Philosophy and the Future of the Female Condition
(Zurich, Switzerland October 4-8, 2000)
http://www.iaph.org/zurich2000.htm

Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS)
Theme: Organizing Knowledge Economies and Societies
(Sydney, Australia December 14-15, 2000)
http://www.gsm.mq.edu.au/ANZAM/

Call for Papers/Proposals

Multiculturalism Program, Canadian Heritage

A request for research proposals (RFP) has been issued for projects beginning in April 2000. Priorities announced in this proposal include:

• Intersectionality of Aspects of Diversity
• Impact of Racism/Hate and Bias Activity on Social Cohesion
• Understanding Conceptions of Ethnicity
• Economic Dimensions of Multiculturalism (Trade, Tourism, Niche Markets, Consumer Patterns)

Copies of the request are available on the Metropolis website, the Multiculturalism Program's website, from the Metropolis Centres, or from Maria Tiley at maria_tiley@pch.gc.ca

Call for Contributors to a new anthology on Gender, Women, and Food Culture.

Metropolis Comings and Goings

We are sorry to report that Metropolis webmaster, Murray Thorpe, has left the Project Team. His cheerful demeanor and hard work is greatly appreciated and the Metropolis network will miss him.

Lenise Levesque Edwards and her husband Jeremy Edwards are the proud new parents of a son, Jordan Scott Levesque Edwards, who was born on September 28th. Jordan is their first child.

We would like to welcome the following new faces to the Metropolis interdepartmental committee: Pierre Anctil (Ministère des Relations avec les citoyens et de l'Immigration - MRCI), Robert Fortin (Treasury Board), Louis Grignon (HRDC), Marius Grinius (Privy Council Office), Kim-Anh Lam (CMHC), Lise Siman (CIC) and Kelly Stone (Solicitor General).

Dina Juras and Suzanne Perron have regretfully left as regional Health Canada representatives at the Prairies and Montreal Centres respectively. Happily, Suzanne Perron has stayed "in the famil" by returning to her former position with Canadian Heritage in Montreal. Dominique Parisien is the new Health Canada representative in Montreal.

Alain Dufour is the new MRCI representative on the Montreal Orientation Committee (replacing Robert Gauthier).

CERIS has a new Academic Coordinator in Winston Husbands and has witnessed the following changes on its Management Board: Marie Truelove is the new Chair (replacing Carl Amrhein who remains on the board) and Lucia Lo of York University (Geography) replaces Wenona Giles. Finally, Valerie Preston returns to CERIS as Data Committee Coordinator (replacing Marie Truelove).

Metropolis Accolades

The Metropolis Project Team was awarded the prestigious Head of the Public Service Award for excellence in policy. The award was received by Meyer Burstein and Howard Duncan on behalf of the Project Team at a ceremony presided over by the Clerk of the Privy Council, Mel Cappe, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization on December 6, 1999.

This award recognizes the degree to which the entire Metropolis network has built robust knowledge partnerships that include policy makers, researchers and NGOs. These partnerships have helped shape better policy in the areas of immigration, integration and diversity.