News Flashes from Metropolis

September 2000 (Vol. 3 No. 4)

In this edition:

• Updates
• Metropolis Events
• Products
• Papers
• Related Initiatives
• Related Events
• Call for Papers/Proposals
• Comings and Goings

Six times each year News Flashes provides timely information, concentrating on results, upcoming events, and updates on various experiments. Please contact Steven Morris (telephone: 613-952-6335, e-mail: steven.morris@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca) to submit information to News Flashes, or to comment on content or structure.

Updates

RIIM-China-Canada Immigration and Trade Workshop (June 28, 2000 - Shanghai, China) RIIM participated in this workshop, co-sponsored with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Workshop topics included

• Assessing China's brain drain to North America
• Managing the flow of skilled workers
• Examining the link between trade and immigration
• Putting illegal migration in context

CERIS-CERIS is pleased to announce the appointment of its new Education Domain leader, Dr. Mehrunnisa Ali, professor of Early Childhood Education at Ryerson Polytechnic Universtiy.

CIC: Elinor Caplan, Minister of Citizenship & Immigration, was in Paris in July to make the keynote presentation in Paris on at a Seminar on combating human smugglers and clandestine immigration. The Minister underscored the importance of maintaining a balance between an open immigration policy and controls, as well as between enforcement action against clandestine immigration and the need to protect genuine refugees. While in Paris the Minister had a round table discussion with four French academics, two of whom had connections to the Metropolis project. The two-hour exchange centred largely on integration issues and discrimination. All expressed considerable support for the Metropolis concept and project.

The Family Network of CPRN is introducing the Social Cohesion Nexus. It will be a locus for researchers, policy makers, and interested members of the general public to keep track of and further explore the concept of social cohesion and work related to it on an ongoing basis. Research on current aspects of social cohesion and news about research events will be reviewed and summarized by CPRN research associate Denis Saint-Martin and up-dated for subscribers every three weeks. To subscribe: http://www.cprn.org/cprn-n.html

The project team is looking at developing a Metropolis Student Register. Watch for the next Newsletter.

Canadian Heritage: The World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance Secretariat (WCAR) has been established for the South African conference. Consultations with NGOs on the issue of "What should the government be doing in the area of Civil Society?" are underway.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: CMHC has now put the Newcomer's Guide to Canadian Housing up on its website.

Solicitor General: Nicole Jauvin is the new Deputy Solicitor General. Efforts continue to raise Metropolis' profile within the Department.

Status of Women Canada: Watch for a call for proposals in September from SWC. The June roundtable on trafficking in women is being followed up with a workshop at the Vancouver conference.

Human Resources Development Canada: HRDC researchers plan to establish a Metropolis-HRDC website. The Strategic Research group will be sponsoring a Metropolis Conversation on Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes.

Health Canada: The National Health Research and Development Program (NHRDP) Division will undergo a strategic research review and will change its focus to more policy-research in light of the new CIHR.

Metropolis Events

Metropolis Conversation Series: The question of whether or not the Canadian diversity model attracts and retains highly skilled immigrants will be the subject of a fall conversation in October. For further information, please contact Katherine Pestieau by e-mail at kp_metro@istar.ca.

Identity Seminar: The Multiculturalism Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage is holding a seminar on identity in Halifax, November 1-2, 2000. For information contact John Biles by e-mail at John_Biles@pch.gc.ca.

RIIM Pan Canadian lecture series: Professor Peter Li, University of Saskatchewan, will give the first Pan Canadian lecture in Vancouver November 10, 2000, on Chinese Immigration to Canada over the past century.

Fifth International Metropolis Conference (Vancouver, November 13-17, 2000) The Vancouver conference will consist of intense discussions amongst senior policy-makers, leading academics, and non-governmental actors. The themes of the conference are provocative and focus on the fundamental issues confronting governments and other stakeholders:

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

Please note: registration can be can effected via the internet or participants can down-load the registration form.. In terms of hotel space, blocks of guestrooms, which will be held until Friday, October 13, 2000, have been reserved at several Vancouver hotels at special room rates. Only those who are registered for the conference can reserve rooms at this rate. The Secretariat strongly recommends that you register and reserve accommodation immediately.

An exciting development for this conference is the opportunity to participate in discussion forums in the weeks and months leading up to the conference. Those who want to participate should, in succession, click on the following links: the conference poster, Virtual Program, Workshops, the title of a particular workshop, and finally Virtual Discussion. Participants then see the log-in screen and can register as a new user, a guest or an existing user.

There are options for those wanting to display and or sell products and services: contact Ed Irish at the Conference Secretariat to discuss options (1-888-278-6186 ext. 232 ) if you are interested in the limited number of booths that will be available to exhibitors. Space may also be available on a first-come, first-served basis for conference delegates or speakers representing non-profit organizations and presenters and wishing to display or distribute material at an on-site resource centre.

Products

Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI)

Co-Editors, Baha Abu-Laban (University of Alberta) and Hans Vermeulen (University of Amsterdam) are pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Lenise Lévesque Edwards to the position of Editorial Assistant. She replaces Ms. Humera Ibrahim who has accepted a with the Department of Canadian Heritage in Ottawa. Ms. Lévesque Edwards will continue her duties as Web Master for the Prairie Centre and for the journal's home page. She can be reached at jimi@ualberta.ca . The on-line information site for JIMI is maintained on the PCERII website. The Spring Issue is due for publication in early September 2000.

Papers

Working Papers from the Toronto Centre of Excellence Recent papers in the CERIS Working Papers series include:

Burnaby, Barbara, Carl James, and Sheri Regier. 2000. "The Role of Education in Integrating Diversity in the Greater Toronto Area." #11-2000. {985}

Kilbride, Kenise Murphy. 2000. "A Review of the Literature on the Human, Social, and Cultural Capital of Immigrant Children and Their Families with Implications for Teacher Education." #13-2000. {985}

Lo, Lucia, Valerie Preston, Shuguang Wang, Katherine Reil, Edward Harvey, and Bobby Siu. 2000. #15-2000. {985}

Qadeer, Mohammad. 2000. "The Base of Chinese and South Asian Merchants' Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Enclaves, Toronto, Canada". #9-1999. {985}

Murdie, Robert and Carlos Teixeira. 2000. "Toward a Comfortable Neighbourhood and Appropriate Housing: Immigrant Experience in Toronto." #10-2000. {985}

Troper, Harold. 2000. "History of Immigration since the Second World War: From Toronto 'The Good' to Toronto 'The World in a City'." #12-2000. {985}

CERIS Working Papers can be ordered for $5.00 each.

Working papers:

Antoine Pecoud, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford (UK): "Cosmopolitanism and Business : Entrepreneurship and Identity among German-Turks in Berlin" University of Oxford : ESRC Transnational Communities Programme Working Paper WPTC-2K-05, 2000, 20 pages, comments and suggestions welcomed. Contact address : Gleimstr. 37, 10437 Berlin, Germany. Download this working paper from http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/wwwroot/frames1.htm

Published Papers:

Ethno-Racial Inequality in the City of Toronto: An Analysis of the 1996 Census, prepared by Michael Ornstein, Director of the Institute for Social Research, York University, for the Access and Equity Unit, Strategic and Corporate Policy Division, Chief Administrator's Office, City of Toronto. The City of Toronto's Public Health Services, Social Development of the Community and Neighbourhood Services Department, the United Way of Greater Toronto and CERIS cooperated in the preparation of this report. Copies of the report can be obtained by contacting the Access and Equity Unit, Strategic and Corporate policy Division, Chief Administrator's Office, City of Toronto, 6^th floor-55 John Street, Toronto, ON M5V 3C6.

Metropolis Travelling Fellowship RIIM and IM are developing a student exchange program. The purpose of this fellowship is to

• provide graduate training on a multidisciplinary level
• encourage a Pan-Canadian theme to Metropolis
• increase exposure of students to research at other Metropolis Centres
• encourage students to conduct policy-relevant research on matters of national scope

Related Events

AUGUST

August 21- 24, 2000, Kingston, Social Policy and Social Outcomes in Canada and the United States, Queen's International Institute on Social Policy. Policy and program implications of integration in the North American context. http://www.qiisp.com/qstart1.htm

September 1-2, 2000, Toronto, Comparative Perspectives on the Chinese Ethnic Economy, Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at the University of Toronto. An opportunity to start developing research work on migration from Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. For further information, contact Eric Fong [ fong@chass.utoronto.ca]

September 21-23, 2000, Saskatoon, Third Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration Annual Workshop, PCERII. Check the website for additional information: http://www.pcerii.metropolis.net/

September 24-25, 2000, Burlington, Third Major Canadian International Labour Network Conference on Labour Market Institutions and Labour Markets, CILN. A preliminary program agenda is available on their website: http://labour.ciln.mcmaster.ca/conference/prog2000.html

October 23-25, 2000, Fourteenth Annual Gateway Series for Entrepreneurship Research will be held in The George Washington University, Washington, DC. http://www.GatewaySeries.org/

October 24-25, 2000, Vancouver, Rethinking the Line: The Canada-U.S. Border, Policy Research Secretariat. Check the website for additional information as it becomes available: http://policyresearch.schoolnet.ca/borders/papers-e.htm

October 25-28, 2000, Family Firm Institute 2000 Conference will be held in Washington, DC from

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

November 17-19, 2000, Vancouver, Era21 Conference, 21st Century Era 21. For further information, visit their web site: http://www.era21.net/

November 29-December 1, 2000, Melbourne, Australia, Population and Globalisation: Australia in the 21st Century, Australian Population Association. Conference themes include: Global Cities, Immigration and Population Futures. http://www.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/apa

November 30-December 1, 2000, Ottawa, Canada in a Global Society, Policy Research Secretariat. Current and future policy issues of critical importance. http:\\policyresearch.schoolnet/ca/2000conference/call-e.htm

Second Canadian Policy Research Awards (November) The awards (and deadlines for nomination) are Career Achievement (September 15), Media Prize (September 15), Graduate Prize (September 15), Outstanding Research Contribution (August 15), Citizen Engagement (September 15) and Knowledge Broker (September 15). The Graduate Prizes, created in collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, celebrate the next generation of researchers who have demonstrated the potential to make a contribution to public policy development; the Knowledge Broker Award recognizes innovative practices in the integration and dissemination of policy research; and finally, the Outstanding Research Contribution Award includes three separate awards, one presented for excellence on an annual theme and two for exemplary research work on any Canadian public policy issue. Furtehr information is available at http://policyresearch.schoolnet.ca/.

December 5-6, 2000, Washington, Findings on Reproductive Health of Refugees and Displaced Persons, Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, InterAction and Global Health Council. The first conference to focus on applied research, program findings and use of data to improve reproductive health programs serving populations in crisis throughout the world. E-mail: sec42@columbia.edu

December 6-8, 2000, Paris, SOPEMI, OECD. Annual meeting.

Call for Papers/Proposals

Call for Papers for Statistics Canada's Annual Economic Conference 2001 (June 4 and 5, 2001 in Ottawa). Abstracts to be sent to Ruth Neveu ( neveruth@statcan.ca) - Deadline to submit abstract: September 21, 2000.

Business and Politics is actively soliciting contributions for future issues of the journal and encourages the submission of research articles, case studies, or commentaries. Research articles should present original theoretical, conceptual, or empirical materials. Cases, which apply theoretical ideas to focus on real world examples of policymaking, should be suitable for classroom use and cover recent events of relevance to business professionals and government officials. Commentaries, which include broad overviews of public policy regarding business political activity and trends in business politics, or discussion of recent articles published in Business and Politics, should be tailored for broad readership. For further information, please visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/c-authors/bap-cfp.html

The deadline for proposals for papers to be delivered at an international conference on Public Policy And The Institutional Context Of Immigrant Businesses (Liverpool, United Kingdom, 22-25 March 2001) sponsored by the European Union under its Targeted Socio-Economic Research programme, is September 15, 2000. For information contact Giles Barrett (email: g.a.barrett@livjm.ac.uk) or Jan Rath (email: rath@pscw.uva.nl).

Comings and Goings

Project Team

Our Dominque Groulx, left Metropolis in August to take an assignment with the World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance Secretariat (WCAR) at Canadian Heritage. All of us are going to miss her spirited participation in Metropolis activities. This September we have three new staff at Metropolis: Natasha Cibischino (613-957-5970) who is responsible for document management and distribution; Emina Tudakovic (613-957-5906) who is on the foreign service development program; and Brian Ray (613-957-5920) who is working part-time with Metropolis and with the Strategic Research and Review Division in CIC as a Senior Analyst.

Julius Uzoaba, Senior Researcher, Research Branch, Correctional Services Canada (613-992-8405) has replaced Roger Boe on the IDC. He can be contacted at uzoabajh@csc-css.gc.ca.

Dr. Barbara Burnaby, formerly Education Domain leader at CERIS, has moved to St. John's, Nfld. Where she has taken on the challenges as Dean of Education at Memorial University. Metropolis and CERIS congratulate Barbara and thank her for her many contributions as domain leader, especially to the working paper series and the recent conference. CERIS, and Metropolis, welcomes Dr. Mehrunnisa Ali, professor of Early Childhood Education at Ryerson Polytechnic University, as its new domain leader in Education.

Dr. Marie McAndrew has returned from sabbatical and resumed her position as Director of Immigration et Métropoles.

Tim Owen recently left COSTI and, effective August 21st, took up responsibilities with World Education Services (WES) where he is heading up the new Academic Credentials Assessment Service at 45 Charles St E 7th floor, Toronto, Ontario,. WES is a US-based not-for-profit organization which has been doing this work for the past 25 years. Tim looks forward to continuing his relationship with the Metropolis project in this new role, and expects to continue his association with the PAC at CERIS. Metropolis congratulates Tim and wishes him well in his new position. He can be contacted at 416 972 0070 or by e-mail at towen@wes.org.

Humera Ibrahim (JIMI) has accepted a position with the World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance Secretariat (WCAR) at Canadian Heritage.