News Flashes from Metropolis

December 2000 (Vol. 3 No. 5)

In this edition:

• Updates
• Products
• Papers
• Related Events
• Comings and Goings
• Accolades

News Flashes offers timely information concentrating on results and upcoming events. Please contact Steven Morris (telephone: 613-952-6335 or e-mail: steven.morris@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca) to provide information or to comment on content.

Federal Partner Updates

Canadian Heritage

Social Justice Seminar

The second of the policy-research seminars organized by the Multiculturalism Program in conjunction with the Metropolis Project took place in Ottawa May 14-15, 1999. The draft proceedings of this seminar are now available. If you would like to receive a copy, please contact John Biles at john_biles@pch.gc.ca

The Multiculturalism Program continues to work with the Association for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association to organize a two-day policy-research seminar on identity and ethnic/racial/religious/diversity in Canada.

Literature reviews have been commissioned in both official languages: Anneke Rummens (University of Toronto) has completed the English language review and Claude Couture (University of Alberta) is completing the French-language review.

In addition, a series of background papers have been commissioned by researchers from across the country. The objective of the papers is to explore existing research on particular areas of ethnic/racial/religious/linguistic identity and to start discussion about research and policy gaps which need to be addressed. If you have bibliographic references or ongoing research projects of which the Authors should be aware, please contact them directly.

Here is a list of the Background Papers which should be available in April 2001:

"Racism/Discrimination and Hate," Sam Noh and Violet Kaspar (U of T) violet_kaspar@camh.net and samuel_noh@camh.net

"Sport," Noel Dyck (SFU) ndyck@sfu.ca

"Religion," Paul Bowlby (St Mary's U) paul.bowlby@stmarys.ca

"Cultural Spectacle," Paul Bramadat (U Winnipeg) paul.bramadat@uwinnipeg.ca

"Heritage Languages," Henry Chow (U Regina) chowhe@uregina.ca

"Recognition and Reconciliation," Constance Backhouse (U of Ottawa) backhous@uottawa.ca

"Education," Yvonne Hebert (U of Calgary) yhebert@ucalgary.ca

"Leadership," Jack Jedwab (McGill), jack.jedwab@acs-aec.ca

"Life in the Electronic Age," Cynthia Alexander (Acadia U) cynthia.alexander@acadiau.ca

"Representative Institutions," Cynthia Baker (U Moncton) bakerc@umoncton.ca

"Culture," Will Straw (McGill) wstraw@po-box.mcgill.ca

"Food," t.b.a.

"Immigration," t.b.a

If you are interested in more information on the seminar, would like to receive a copy of the English-language literature review, or if you know of researchers, policy makers or NGOs interested in any of these areas, please contact John Biles at john_biles@pch.gc.ca

The HRDC Metropolis Web-page is up and running. It can be accessed either from the Metropolis web site under pathways to federal partners or from the HRDC web-site: http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/arb/metropolis/home.shtml .

In February, the HRDC will sponsor a Metropolis Conversation on the economic and social integration of recent immigrants. The goal of this one-day event is to review economic and social performance outcome indicators of immigrants and to have a discussion about possible ways to improve these outcomes.

For further information, you may wish to contact HRDC's main contact for Metropolis:

Jean Lock Kunz, Applied Research Branch (tel) 819-953-8049, (fax) 819-953-8868

To inform the Canadian public, in particular persons and organizations with an interest in immigrants, CIC has released three comparative portraits describing recent immigrants in the Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver Metropolitan Areas based on the 1996 Census. The documents (available on the CIC web site at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/srr/research) provide information the origin and background of immigrants, on family and household structure, on participation in the economy, on income, and housing.

The portraits are the first 3 in a series of 13 portraits for major urban areas where the overwhelming majority of recent immigrants live. Each of the 13 profiles will highlight a Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). The CMAs are: Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Victoria, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Ottawa, Quebec City and Halifax. Also available will be a profile of recent immigrants in Canada.

Approximately 100 delegates attended the Prairie Centre's 3rd Annual Workshop in Saskatoon, September 21-23, 2000. For more information on the Prairie Centre, please contact the Centre's office at
pcerii@ualberta.ca.

PCERII recently announced its new research affiliates for 2000-2001:

Douglas Brownridge, Department of Family Studies, University of Manitoba

Nancy Gibson, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta

Richard Julien, Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Saskatchewan

Abdolmohammad Kazemipur, Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge

Sandra Kouritzin, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba

Xin Ma, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta

Maria Mayan, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta

Kimberly Noels, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta

Herb Northcott, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta

Wayne Simpson, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba

Lori Wilkinson, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba

PCERII also announced the following intern placements for 2000-2001:

Trudy Carlson, placement at Multicultural Health Brokers Co-operative (Edmonton)

Paula Cheng, placement at Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers

Healther Musgrove, placement at Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers

Elizabeth Schienbein, placement at Changing Together.A Centre for Immigrant Women (Edmonton)

Christina Zschocke, placement at Edmonton Catholic Social Services

CERIS' Drs. Kenise Murphy Kilbride and Paul Anisef-in partnership with COSTI, the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, and the Toronto District School Board-are conducting a study on "Newcomer Youth at Risk" for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Ontario Region and the Ontario Administration of Settlement and Immigration Services (OASIS).

CERIS is proud of the teacher's resource kit, "Strangers Becoming Us," Morton Beiser's brainchild. Two other projects have been approved by CERIS Management Board: Carl James' study Product of Canada?! Caribbean-Canadians, Family, Transnationalism and the Settlement Process and Joanna Rummens' Assessing the Impact of the Kosovo Crisis on the Mental Health and Well Being of Newcomer Serbian Children in the Greater Toronto Area.

The collège de Bois-de-Boulogne, le Cégep Marie-Victorin and le Volet 3 (éducation) du Centre Immigration et Métropoles held a mini-symposium on October 27, on the theme "La réussite en français des élèves à risque au collégial"

IM's Domain 2 held a symposium on November 3, on the subject "Vie de quartier, trajectoires résidentielles, réseaux sociaux et gestion des équipements collectifs" which included the a seminar: "Immigrants and social housing: Access and Integration issues at a time of municipal reorganization".

Products

Special Issues of the RIIM's 2000 Working Paper Series, 00-S1 to 00-S8, were prepared for the workshop, Workshop:Trade Agreements and Migration. The workshop was part of The Fourth International Metropolis Conference held in Washington, D.C. from December 8 to December 11, 1999.

00-S1 "Urban Secondary Citizens: Low-Skill Temporary Workers-The Case of Shanghai" Author(s):Kangqing Zhang, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences & RIIM

00-S2 "Irregular Immigrants to Spain" Author: Trinidad L. Vicente, University of Deusto (Spain)

00-S3 "Australia's Temporary Business Entry Arrangements" Author:Steven Weeks, Australian High Commission

00-S4 "Information Technology Companies and U.S. Immigration Policy: Hiring Foreign Workers" Author: B. Lindsay Lowell, Georgetown University

00-S5 "Trade and Migration: The Mexico-US Experience" Author:Philip Martin, UC-Davis

00-S6 "The GATS and the Mobility of Service Suppliers" Author:Allison Young, DFAIT

00-S7 "Managed Migration and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program" Author(s):David Greenhill, Jorge Aceytuno, HRDC

00-S8 "Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program: A New Design" Author(s):Bradley Pascoe, CIC, Beverly Davis, HRDC

Just Published by the Prairie Centre: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities on the Prairies: A Statistical Compendium. Edmonton: Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration, 2000. ISBN: 0-9682207-1-1

Papers

RIIM's Commentary Series:

00-02 "A Canadian Evaluation Model for Unskilled Temporary Immigration Un modèle canadien d'évaluation de l'immigration des travailleurs temporaires non qualifiés (aperçu)" Don DeVoretz, SFU

00-01 "A Political Model of the Permissible Number of Immigrants" J. Atsu Amegashie, SFU

00-02 "Seeking "Homo Economicus":The Strange Story of Canada's Business Immigration Program" David Ley, University of British Columbia

00-03 "Temporary Immigration of Nikkeijin to Ease the Japanese Aging Crisis" Chieko Tanimura, SFU

00-04 "Immigrant Occupational Skill Outcomes and the Role of Region-Specific Human Capital" Eden Nicole Thompson, SFU

00-05 "A Taste of Canada: An Analysis of Food Expenditure Patterns for Canadian-born and Foreign-born Consumers" Christiane Werner, SFU

00-06 "Probability of Staying in Canada" Don J. DeVoretz and Chona Iturralde, SFU

00-07 "Job Mobility and Promotion in the Federal Public Service. A Joint Project with Strategic Research and Analysis, Multiculturalism Program Canadian Heritage, and Research Directorate, Public Service Commission" Ravi Pendakur and Fernando Mata, and Stan Lee and Natalie Dole

00-08 "The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada" Barry R. Chiswick, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Paul W. Miller, University of Western Australia

00-09 "The Housing Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Norway" John E. Hayfron, SFU

00-10 "Immigration and Greater Vancouver: A 1996 Census Atlas - This working paper is a special case. It exists as a series of web pages that readers can see, but not as a downloadable document. Please feel free to print pages, but we ask that you acknowledge the Authors, RIIM, and Statistics Canada when you make reference to them. http://www.geog.ubc.ca/metropolis/atlas Greg Cunningham, Daniel Hiebert, and Brian Klinkenberg, UBC

00-11 "The Economics of Illegal Migration for the Host Economy" Barry R. Chiswick, The University of Illinois at Chicago

00-12 "The Social Geography of Immigration and Urbanization in Canada: A Review and Interpretation" Daniel Hiebert, UBC

00-13 "A Model of Destination Language Acquisition: Application to Male Immigrants to Canada" Barry R. Chiswick, The University of Illinois at Chicago, and Paul W. Miller, University of Western Australia

00-14 "Immigration to Vancouver: An Analytical Review" Jamie Winders, UBC

00-15 "Cosmopolitanism at the Local Level: Immigrant Settlement and the Development of Transnational Neighbourhoods" Daniel Hiebert, UBC

00-16 "Visits to Canada: The Role of Canada's Immigrant Populations" David Prescott, University of Guelph, and David Wilton, University of Waterloo; Canan Dadayli and Aaron Dickson, University of Guelph

00-17 "Perception and Supply: A Theoretical Analysis with an Application to Immigrants" J. Atsu Amegashie and John E. Hayfron, SFU

00-18 "Life Satisfaction in Canada: How Happy are our Immigrants and Ethnic Groups?" (Preliminary Only) Fernando Mata, Multiculturalism Program, Canadian Heritage

00-19 "Social Security and Migration with Endogenous Skill Upgrading" Alessandra Casarico and Carlo Devillanova, Università Bocconi, Milan

00-20 "Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany" Don DeVoretz, SFU; Holger Hinte, IZA, Bonn; and Christiane Werner, SFU

Abouguendia, M., & Noels, K.A. (in press). "General and acculturation-related daily hassles and psychological adjustment in first- and second-generation South Asian immigrants to Canada." International Journal of Psychology.

Clement, R., & Noels, K.A. (in press). "Inter-ethnic contact, identity, and psychological adjustment: The mediating and moderating roles of communication." Journal of Social Issues.

Giles, H., Barker, V., Noels, K.A., Duck, J., Hecht, M., & Clement, R. (in press). "The English-only movement: A communication analysis of changing linguistic vitality." Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Driedger, Leo and Shiva Halli, Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge (Montreal: McGill/Queen's, 2000)

Driedger, Leo, Mennonites in the Global Village (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000)

Driedger, Leo and Angus Reid, "Public Opinion on Visible Minorities," In Driedger and Halli, Race and Racism:Canada's Challenge (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000)

Driedger, Leo, "Immigrant/Ethnic/Racial Segregation: Canadian Big Three and Prairie Metropolitan Comparisons." Canadian Journal of Sociology 24:485-509, 1999

Giles, H., Liang, B., Noels, K.A. , & McCann, R. (in press). "Communication across and within generations: Taiwanese', Chinese-Americans' and Euro-Americans' perceptions of communication." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.

Halli, Shiva and Leo Driedger, Immigrant Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000)

Harpelle, Dr. Ron, "Electronic Guide to West Indian Diaspora in Middle America, Department of History," Lakehead University. For more information please visit the website at: http://www.lakeheau.ca/~sojourners

Li, Peter S. 2000 ,"Earning disparities between immigrants and native-born Canadians." Canadian Review Sociology and Anthropology 37((3): 289-311.

Li, Peter S. 2000, "Economic returns of immigrants' self-employment." Canadian Journal of Sociology 25(1): 1-34.

"La réussite en français des allophones au collégial: constat, problématique et solutions".Antoniadès, E., Armand, F., Chéhadé, M., Lamarre, P., Lemay, D. (2000). Research report. Montréal: Immigration et métropoles, Collège du Bois de Boulogne and le Cegep Marie-Victorin.

"Favoriser l'interaction entre recherche et politiques publiques en matière d'immigration". Ledent, J. and Lenoir, A. (2000) (dir). Synthesis of presentations and discussions. Montréal: Immigration et métropoles.

Relations ethniques et éducation dans les sociétés divisées (Québec, Irlande du Nord, Catalogne et Belgique). Mc Andrew, M. and Gagnon, F. (2000) (dir). Paris: L'Harmattan.

"Éducation à la citoyenneté et adultes nouveaux arrivants: l'expérience québécoise". Vermette, M., Jacquet, M. and Mc Andrew, M. (2000). Montréal: Immigration et métropoles.

"Landed refugee claimant's first three years in Québec : their housing experiences". Rose, D. and Ray, B. (2000). Montréal : Immigration et métropoles.

Burnaby, Barbara, Carl James, and Sheri Regier. 2000. The Role of Education in Integrating Diversity in the Greater Toronto Area. CERIS Working Paper Series. #11-2000.

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.

Lo, Lucia, Valerie Preston, Shuguang Wang, Katherine Reil, Edward Harvey, and Bobby Siu. 2000. Immigrants" Economic Status in Toronto: Rethinking Settlement and Integration Strategies. CERIS Working Paper Series. #15-2000.

Qadeer, Mohammad. 2000. The Base of Chinese and South Asian Merchants" Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Enclaves, Toronto, Canada. CERIS Working Paper Series. #9-1999.

Murdie, Robert and Carlos Teixeira. 2000. Toward a Comfortable Neighbourhood and Appropriate Housing: Immigrant Experience in Toronto. CERIS Working Paper Series. #10-2000.

Troper, Harold. 2000. History of Immigration since the Second World War: From Toronto "The Good" to Toronto "The World in a City". CERIS Working Paper Series. #12-2000.

Related Events

George Borjas, one of the pre-eminent economic researchers on immigration in the United States, gave a lecture as part of Industry Canada's distinguished speaker series last October 27, 2000, on the "economic impacts of immigration".

Settlement Service Exhibit On November 9, 14 and 16 the Ontario Administration of Settlement and Integration Services (OASIS), exhibited products and materials developed in the last couple of years to support settlement programs. The products included videos, curricula, brochures, informational packages for newcomers, research studies, software and information on upcoming products and research that are currently being funded. Their new website www.settlement.org provides information both in English and French to Immigrant Newcomers who hare settling in Ontario.

Committee for Economic Development In its Issue Brief Series "America's Work Force After the Baby Boomers: The Surprising Role Immigration Will Play," CED announced that it will release a report on Immigration Policy next year. Those interested can contact Tarek Anandan at (202) 296-5860 for more information on the status of the project. CED reports are available in full text at www.ced.org.

ASPLP The annual conference of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) will be on the topic of self-determination, in San Francisco, on JANUARY 2-3, 2001. For information contact Allen Buchanan at allen@u.arizona.edu

CERIS Seminar on Immigration and Citizenship, Wednesday January 10, 2001. "Does Multiculturalism Isolate or Integrate? Immigrant Citizenship in North America" Presentation by Dr. Irene Bloemraad (Department of Sociology, Harvard University)

USASBE/SBIDA 2001: An Entrepreneurial Odyssey The Joint National Conference will be held in Orlando, Florida, February 6-10, 2001. For more details on the this conference and submission instructions, visit http://www.sbaer.uca.edu

Re-Inventing Society In A Changing Global Economy, March 8-10, 2001: J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto. The focus will be on the impact of global economic change, as seen by leading Canadian and international scholars, in: international relations, labour relations, culture and social values, information and knowledge, nationalism, and migration politics. The conference is being sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Sociology and the R.F. Harney Professorship and Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies.

An International Research Conference, May 2-4, 2001 The Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto is organizing the "Health Care in a Complex World". The goal of this international conference is to provide a forum for researchers, educators, clinicians, policy makers, and students to exchange theoretical and empirical knowledge about these challenges and strategies. Further information can be found at http://www.nursing.utoronto.ca/research/conferences/

Second Annual Inland Empire Conference on Entrepreneurship will be held in San Bernardino, California, on May 3, 2001. For further information on this conference, visit http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/Docs/bulletins/IECE2001.htm

Hawaii Conference on Business sponsored by the College of Business Administration at the University of Hawaii, will be held from June 14-17, 2001 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Submission deadline for papers: January 15, 2001 For more details on the this conference, visit

http://www.hcb.hawaii.edu

ISA Research Committee on Regional and Urban Development (RC21) Conference: "Social Inequality, Redistributive Justice and the City," Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 15-17, 2001.

Global Studies Association (GSA) with the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, is organizing its first international conference on: 'Networks And Transformations' to be held between July 2nd and 4^th, 2001.

The conference organizers hope that scholars from many disciplines will offer papers on the multi-dimensional nature and variety of transnational networks as well as the theoretical and policy issues to which they are giving rise: geography, communications theory, business and management studies, political economy, politics, social policy as well as sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and other fields

To receive further information you can visit the conference homepage at http://www.mmu.ac.uk/gsa/conf.htm or contact the organizers at the following address: Paul Kennedy, The Institute for Global Studies, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamund St, West, off Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6LL, Tel: 0161 247 3006; Fax: 44 (0) 161 247 6321; email: P.Kennedy@mmu.ac.uk .

AMA Summer Marketing Educators' Conference, 2001: A Marketing Odyssey scheduled for August 11-14 at the Washington, D. C. Hilton and Towers. Submission deadline for papers: January 22, 2001. For more details on the this conference, visit http://www.ama.org/events/

WCAR The major "World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" (WCAR) will take place in South Africa, August 31 - September 7, 2001. For more information on the conference or to subscribe to the list-serve, send an e-mail to lwiseberg.hchr@unog.ch

Fifth National Metropolis Conference, Ottawa, October 16-20, 2001.

PLAR Conference Metropolis understands that planning is underway for the PLAR conference to be held October 27-31, 2001, with a working title proposed -"Recognizing Learning - Bridging Gaps and Building Capacity."

Sixteenth Biennial Conference of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, Halifax, November 2-4, 2001.

Sixth International Metropolis Conference Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 26 - 30, 2001. Further information is available at http://www.pscw.uva.nl/imes/rotterdam.htm

Comings and Goings

Caterina Masino has joined CERIS this year as a placement student from Urban Studies at York University to help with publicity for CERIS seminars and liaison with students.

Jeff Bullard, Manager of Strategic Policy and Research for the Multiculturalism Program, Department of Canadian Heritage has accepted a new position as a senior policy advisor with the Homelessness Secretariat at Human Resources Development Canada. Contact with the Department of Canadian heritage can be maintained through John Biles (John_biles@pch.gc.ca) or through the director of the Multiculturalism Program, Barbara Levine (Barbara_Levine@pch.gc.ca).

Accolades:

Sonia Bitar, executive director of the immigrant women's centre was honoured by the Governor General for helping immigrant women. Ms. Bitar, 51, will be one of six women who will receive a special Governor General's Award saluting work in the advancement of women's equality. Ms. Bitar received her award based her almost 10 years of helping immigrant women adjust to life in Canada.

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