News Flashes from Metropolis

February 20, 2000 (Vol. 3 No. 1)

In this edition:

• Centre Update
• Federal Partner Update
• Metropolis Events
• Web News
• Products
• Related Initiatives
• Related Events
• Calls for Papers/Proposals
• Metropolis Comings and Goings
• Metropolis Accolades

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

Centre Update

Vancouver Centre (RIIM)

In the current year, RIIM has placed high priority on establishing international comparative studies on immigration and the metropolis. Initiatives include:

Joan Anderson (Nursing UBC) is establishing a network that includes Australia and the United Kingdom to examine health care policy for treating ethno-cultural diversity. She can be reached at JOAN.ANDERSON@ubc.ca.

Audrey Kobayashi (Queen's and RIIM) and Myer Siemiatycki (Ryerson and CERIS) received a SSHRC Strategic Grant for examining transnationalism among Hong Kong immigrants in Vancouver and Toronto. This project is part of a Canada-Britain-Germany comparative study on transnationalism. They can be reached at: kobayashi@post.queensu.ca and msiemiat@acs.ryerson.ca.

A second Vancouver-Sydney comparative immigration workshop has been funded for June 2000 in Vancouver. A dozen Australians are coupled with Canadians in presenting papers. Several papers from the first workshop are to appear in 'Progress in Planning' . For more information contact David Ley at davidley@unixg.ubc.ca.

Prof. Ceri Peach (Oxford, RIIM Distinguished Visitor in 1999) is undertaking a comparative study of segregation in major cities in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States involving several RIIM researchers including Dan Hiebert (dhiebert@geog.ubc.ca).

RIIM, in conjunction with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, plans to hold a symposium in Shanghai this summer. The theme will be "Benefits and Costs of Chinese Immigration to Canada." For more information contact Don DeVoretz at devoretz@sfu.ca.

Toronto Centre (CERIS)

The seminar series at CERIS is continuing at both the University of Toronto and York. The next seminars will be at York: (February 23) "Jamaicans Abroad: Transnational Jamaican Families in Canada and Britain;" (March 8 or 15) "Ethnoculturalism, Education and Restructuring the Limits of Multiculturalism;" and (April 12) ""Conference on Somalis and the Somali Diaspora." For more information contact ceris@yorku.ca.

Prairie Centre (PCERII)

Applications for the 2000-2001 round of research funding must reach the Centre by May 1, 2000. Grant guidelines and application forms are available on the website at http://www.pcerii.metropolis.net/.

The Brown Bag Lunch series continues in Edmonton with upcoming lectures including: (February) "The Role of Changing Together: A Centre for Immigrant Womens' Well-Being of Its Clientele;" (March) "Understanding the Health Care Needs of Canadian Immigrants;" and (April) "The New Canadian Children and Youth Study." For more information please contact Kelly McKean at kmckean@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca.

On April 14, 2000, the University of Regina node of the Prairie Centre will host a workshop at the Regina Open Door Society. It will present findings from research and discuss future collaborative projects with Metropolis stakeholders in Regina. For more information contact Polo Diaz at harry.diaz@uregina.ca.

The "Third Annual Prairie Regional Workshop" will be held September 21-23, 2000 in Saskatoon. For more information contact the Centre at pcerii@ualberta.ca.

Federal Partner Update

Health Canada

On March 2-3 the Health Canada Metropolis Working Group will convene in Ottawa. Its members are individuals from various branches within the department, from both headquarters and the regional offices. The purpose of the meeting is to take stock, hold a strategic planning session and help guide the department's participation in Metropolis in the coming years. For more information contact Carol Silcoff at carol_silcoff@hc-sc.gc.ca.

Human Resources Development Canada

Investing in Children: Ideas for Action is a report generated out of a conference organized in October 1998 by Human Resources Development to present findings from the first cycle of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. As its title would suggest, this report details the suggested actions emerging from the conference.

Copies of the report may be obtained from the Applied Research branch's Publications Office at research@spg.org of from the departmental website at http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/arb/.

Canadian Heritage

Strategic Research and Analysis has released a number of reports in the last six months. They include:

Benjamin Hempel Does Canada Compare? Social Cohesion and Cultural Policies in Australia, the United States and the European Union (SRA-435)

Liudmila Kirpitchenko and Heather De Santis Social Cohesion and Cultural Practices: Beyond the Mainstream (SRA-436)

M. Sharon Jeannotte Tango Romantica or Liaisons Dangereuses? Cultural Policies and Social Cohesion: Perspectives from Canadian Research (SRA-485)

France Gagnon and Michel Pagé Conceptual Framework for an Analysis of Citizenship in the Liberal Democracies: Volume 1 and 2 (SRA-366)

Amanda Aizlewood Comparing Conceptions of Citizenship: An Analysis of Public Attitudes in Five Liberal Democracies (SRA-470)

M. Sharon Jeannotte The Different Facets of Diversity and Social Cohesion (SRA-433)

Amanda Aizlewood, Roger Butt, and Dennis Price Diversity in the United States: Understanding the Role of the State (SRA-434)

To obtain copies of these documents please contact sra_docras@pch.gc.ca and cite the SRA reference number.

Metropolis Events

Urban Seminars

The Urban Forum lecture series in collaboration with the Metropolis Project Team with the support of Canadian Heritage presents a series of conferences across Canada that will:

• examine how cities are being transformed by growing diversity;
• assess the importance of this transformation for urban planning; and
• explore how cities and city planners should respond to these changes.
  
  
  • Toronto: Took place February 15, 2000 - York University (Vari Hall). This conference was organized in cooperation with the Urban Studies Programme at York University. For more information please contact: Marcia Wallace at mwallace@yorku.ca.
  • Montréal: March 20, 2000, 8:30 to 1:00 - Hosted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Paul-Desmarais Theatre
  • Ottawa: March 21, 2000, 9:00 to 1:00 - Ottawa-Carleton Centre, Haydon Hall
  • Vancouver: March 27, 2000, 9:00 to 1:00 - Robson Square Conference Centre, Judge White Theatre
  
  
• Information/registration (until a week before each seminar):
  contact the Canadian Institute of Planners: general@cip-icu.ca

Fourth National Metropolis Conference
(Toronto, Canada 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

The Centre webmasters and the project coordinators (Xwave Solutions Inc., and the Metropolis Project team) will meet March 24 in conjunction with the Fourth National Conference in Toronto. Their discussion will focus on how to make the virtual library more useful to researchers and the new "look and feel" of the network of websites.

Products

Journal of International Migration and Integration

The first issue of the Journal of International Migration and Integration will appear in 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.

Canadian Research on Immigration and Health: An Overview

Health Canada published this synthesis paper by Dianne Kinnon. The report takes stock of existing health research and identifies possible future directions. In the report, a number of main themes and gaps in immigration health research are identified, including: the need for more knowledge on health determinants and on the immigration experience itself; greater gender analysis and focus on immigrant sub-populations; research related to health system support and renewal, including the impact of immigration on the health care system; and the impact of hate crime, racism and discrimination. A separate appendix provides a synopsis of health-related research funded by the four Metropolis Centres of Excellence.

The document is available on the web at http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iacb-dgiac/nhrdp/metropolis/.

New Working Papers from the Vancouver Centre of Excellence

The latest working papers produced by the Vancouver Centre, available on the Metropolis website or at riim@sfu.ca include:

Stefan M. Golder Lessons from the Swiss migration experience: an empirical analysis of the employment performance

B. Lindsay Lowell Skilled temporary and permanent immigrants in the United States

Thomas Straubhaar Experience with Temporary Workers: Some Evidence from Selected European Countries

Don DeVoretz Malaysian Immigration Issues: An Economic Perspective

Zeev Rosenhek Migration Regimes, Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Exclsuion and Inclusion: Migrant Workers in the Israeli Welfare State

Don J. DeVoretz Temporary Canadian Migration: Quo Vadis?

New Working Papers from the Montreal Centre of Excellence

Johanne Charbonneau, Francine Dansereau, and Michèle Vatz-Laaroussi Analyse des processus de jumelage entre familles immigrantes et accueillantes au Québec

Christopher McAll, Véronique Baudouin and Nathalie Freitag Le milieu communautaire et l'approche intégrée en francisation: un modèle à reconnaître

These papers are available on the website or from metropolis@ere.umontreal.ca.

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Linda Pietrantonio has completed her dissertation at the L'Université de Montréal entitled "La construction sociale de la (dé)légitimation de l'action positive ou l'envers de l'égalité."

Two backgrounders by the Centre for Immigration Studies in Washington D.C. provide extensive lists of dissertations completed in the United States on immigration. These two documents, Immigration-Related Dissertations, 1997 and Immigration-Related Dissertations, 1998 can be found at http://www.cis.org/backgrounders.htm.

Holder Saddeiqa's University of Toronto dissertation entitled The Role of Immigrant Serving Organizations in the Canadian Welfare State: A Case Stud.y" (1998) is now in the U of T library.

Published Papers

Sedef Arat-Koc Neo-liberalism, State Restructuring and Immigration: Changes in Canadian Policies in the 1990s Journal of Canadian Studies 34:2, 1999.

Related Initiatives

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.

Related Events

Tolerance and Beyond: Religious Rights and Civil Society in the OSCE Countries
(Berlin, March 13-15, 2000)
eac30@columbia.edu

The 49th International Atlantic Economic Conference
(Munich, Germany March 14-21, 2000)
http://www.iaes.org/conferences

Nordic Association for Canadian Studies
(Norway March 20-21, 2000)
John.Fossum@aorg.uib.no

The Population Association of America
(Los Angeles March 23-25, 2000)
http://wwww.popassoc.org

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

Ethnic Neighbourhoods in European Cities: Entrepreneurship, Employment and Social Order
(Cologne, Germany April 6-9, 2000)
http://www.cemes.org

Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora
(New Delhi April 8-10, 2000)
anna.winton@anthro.ox.ac.uk

Nation Building: 25th Annual Conference of British Association of Canadian Studies
(Edinburgh, Scotland April 11-14, 2000)
jodie.robson@ed.ac.uk

New Citizenship Claims and the Future of the Social Democratic Welfare State
(Vienna April 12-14, 2000)
waldemar.zacharasiewicz@univie.ac.at

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

Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Politics in Transnational Perspective
(Warwick, U.K. April 27-29, 2000)
anna.winton@anthro.ox.ac.uk

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

New African Diasporas
(London May 5, 2000)
kkoser@geography.ucl.ac.uk

1st Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and the Academy in the New Millenium
(San Bernardino, California May 11, 2000)
Theme: Building Bridges to the Future: Connecting the Academy to the Entrepreneurial Community in the New Millenniumhttp://www.cpba.csusb.edu/iece

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

Migration and Development: Second Generation Immigrants and the Transition to Ethnic Minorities
(Italy May 12-17,2000)
http://www.esf.org/euresco

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

Recasting European and Canadian History: National Consciousness, Migration, Multicultural Lives
(Bremen, Germany May 18-21, 2000)
harzig@uni-bremen.de

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

Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
(Edmonton, Canada May 24-31, 2000)
http://www.hssfc.ca

Annual CERN Meeting
(Edmonton May 27-28, 2000)
yhebert@ucalgary.ca

Conference on Families and Labour Markets
(Vancouver, Canada June 1-2, 2000)
http://cerf.mcmaster.ca/conferences/families

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

Canadian Economics Association Conference
(Vancouver, Canada June 1-4, 2000)
http://www.economics.ca/2000/

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

Emerging Democracies, Citizenship and Human Rights Education
(Enschede, the Netherlands June 18-21, 2000)
www.slo.nl/~citizenship
j.bron@slo.nl

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

32nd Annual International Conference Rising Tide: Community Development for a Changing World
(Saint John, Canada July 23-26, 2000)
glister@mta.ca

Canadian Political Science Association/Société québécoise de science politique
(Quebec July 29 - August 1)
www.uottawa.ca/associations/cpsa-acsp

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

Transnational Communities in the Asia-Pacific Region: Comparative Perspectives
(Singapore August 7-8, 2000)
caskkm@nus.edu.sg

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

3rd International Business and Economics Conference
(Wisconsin October 6-7, 2000)
Themes include Multiculturalism in the workplace
http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/docs/bulletins/interbusconf.html

Diasporas and Transnational Identities
(London, Ontario October 19-22, 2000)
dmitriev@julian.uwo.ca

22nd Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference
(Seattle, November 2-4, 2000)
Theme: Doing and Using Public Policy Analysis and Management Research
Http://www.Appam.org

Self-Employment, Gender and Migration
(Wiesbaden-Naurod, Germany, November 11-16, 2000)
http://www.esf.org/euresco

American Anthropological Association
(San Francisco November 15-19, 2000)
www.ameranthassn.org/

Race, Ethnicity and Migration: The United States in Global Context
(Minnesota U.S.A., November 16-18, 2000)
rem@tc.umn.edu

era21
(Vancouver, November 17-20, 2000)
Themes: Anti-Racism, Hate Crime, Immigration, Racism
Era21@post.queensu.ca

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

Call for Papers for Canadian Economic Association Annual Meeting (June 1-4 Vancouver, Canada)

Proposals must be submitted no later than March 1, 2000. For more information please see http://www.economics.ca/2000/

Call for Papers for era21 Conference

(Vancouver, November 17-20, 2000)
Themes: Anti-Racism, Hate Crime, Immigration, Racism
Era21@post.queensu.ca

Abstracts to be sent to Audrey Kobayashi (kobayashi@post.queensu.ca) no later than March 15, 2000.

Call for Papers for the 3rd International Business and Economics Conference

(Wisconsin October 6-7, 2000)
Themes include Multiculturalism in the workplace. Papers to be sent to Marc von der Ruhr (vondma@mail.snc.edu) no later than March 17, 2000.

Call for Papers for Conference of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration

(Johannesburg, South Africa January 8-11, 2001
Theme: The Refugee Convention at 50
Proposals to be sent to Joanne van Selm (IASFM@pscw.uva.nl) by April 1, 2000.

Call for Papers for Diasporas and Transnational Identities Conference

(London, Ontario October 19-22, 2000)
Deadline for paper submissions is April 30, 2000. Proposals to be sent to Mireya Folch-Serra at dmitriev@julian.uwo.ca.

Metropolis Comings and Goings

Centre Changes

Richard Bourhis (Concordia-UQAM Ethnic Studies Chair) has replaced Danielle Juteau as coordinator of the Montreal Centre's domain on citizenship. Richard can be reached at bourhis.richard@uqam.ca.

Hugh Grant (Economics, University of Manitoba) is a "Visiting Honourary Fellow" at the Department of Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth.

Interdepartmental Committee Changes

Pierre Anctil has left the MRCI for a two year assignment. The MRCI seat has been taken by Louis-René Gagnon. He can be reached at louis-rene.ganon@mrci.gouv.qc.ca.

Ann Bourke, from the Policy and Consultation Branch at Health Canada, has joined the Metropolis interdepartmental committee. She can be reached at ann_bourke@hc-sc.gc.ca.

Project Team Changes

The Project Team misses three of its players: Jean-Pierre Moisan, the National Project Director, has left the Project Team pursue a new challenge at Environment Canada; and Emmanuelle Lebeau and Ayesha Rekhi are continuing with their training in the Foreign Service Development Program. They will be back with us briefly in the Spring, anxiously awaiting their first posting assignment. We are appreciative of all their contributions to the project and miss both their work ethic and their sense of humour.

Metropolis Accolades

Morton Beiser and his work on immigrants and health was recently profiled in the Journal of Canadian Medical Studies. The article is on-line at www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-162/issue-1/0176.htm.