News Flashes from Metropolis

February 2001 (Vol. 4 No. 1)

In this edition:

• Updates
• Web News
• Products
• Papers
• Related Events
• Calls for Proposals/Papers

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

Annual Report The Multiculturalism Annual Report has been tabled in Parliament and is available on the Canadian Heritage Website (http://www.pch.gc.ca). The report which has traditionally detailed how all federal departments and agencies meet their obligations under the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, has, instead adopted a thematic approach this year.

Identity Seminar The background papers are nearing completion for the seminar to be held in Halifax November 1-2, 2001 in conjunction with the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference. A list of 500 potential participants from across the country have been contacted by the Association for Canadian Studies. If you would like more information on this please contact John Biles at john_biles@pch.gc.ca

Intersections of Diversity Seminar The Multiculturalism Program is working with a number of departments to plan a policy-research seminar exploring the intersections of ethnocultural/racial/religious/linguistic diversity with other identity markers. It is expected to take place in the summer of 2002 in conjunction with a conference celebrating the anniversary of the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. For more information please contact John Biles at john_biles@pch.gc.ca

World Conference Against Racism The national civil society consultations have wrapped up with a conference in Ottawa February 22-24, 2001. Research reports and the principle recommendations form the consultations can be found on-line at http://www.pch.gc.ca Of particular interest is a research inventory detailing many of the key reports and recommendations delivered to governments across the country on the subject of discrimination in the last twenty years. The report was prepared by a research team headed by Jack Jedwab and included several graduate student participants in Metropolis.

On February 12, 2001, the HRDC sponsored a Metropolis Conversation series titled: "Economic and Social Performance Outcomes of Recent Immigrants: How Can We Improve Them?" For more information, please contact Jean Kunz (jean.l.kunz@spg.org).

On February 8, 2001, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan tabled Canada's immigration levels in the House of Commons, which show a modest increase in numbers over the next two years.

The Minister announced that Canada had exceeded the targets set for the year 2000, and that it planned to land up to 235,000 immigrants by 2002.

The New Canadian Children and Youth Study (NCCYS) has been granted four years of funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research or CIHR. The grant amount awarded for the first year is $626,036.

The NCCYS project will trace the adaptation and development of immigrant and refugee children, focusing on children ages 4-5 and 10-11 in immigrant and refugee families settling in Montreal, British Columbia, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg. After an initial survey, the children will be followed two years later in order to map their developmental trajectories. The NCCYS will benefit from a comparative backdrop provided by the federal government's National Longitudinal Study of Children (NLSC), an investigation of the health and development of 25,000 mostly native-born children. The NCCYS will contribute information to help make programs more responsive to the needs and aspirations of New Canadian children.

In Toronto the NCCYS project is led by CERIS Director Dr. Morton Beiser and involves collaboration between CERIS, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry. NCCYS is also a collaborative pan-Canadian Metropolis project involving researchers from the major immigrant-receiving cities. The Metropolis centres in Montreal and the Prairies are formally involved along with CERIS and RIIM in Vancouver is planning future involvement.

NCCYS thanks Metropolis partners in Ottawa from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Statistics Canada and Health Canada for support to the initial project design. And thanks as well to the funders supporting the planning and pilot stages of this project in Toronto including CIC Ontario region (OASIS), Health Canada Ontario Region, Canadian Heritage and the CERIS fund for Major Research Initiatives (MRI).

The Maytree Foundation Presents: WHO SHOULD GET IN? RETHINKING IMMIGRATION PRIORITIES, Wednesday, February 28, 2001 -- 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Building, 250 Front Street West

Do we see immigration as being primarily about filling short-term labour market gaps, or long-term economic strategies? Is it about reunifying families or supplying enough young workers to the labour pool? Or is immigration first of all about building a vibrant, diverse, healthy society? Are we looking for only the wealthiest, best educated and most skilled, or for anyone who truly wants to adopt this country as their home and has the skills and the ability to land on their feet? Where do our humanitarian commitments fit into the scheme, and should they be subject to quotas? What are our priorities as a nation, and what role does immigration play in meeting those priorities? Panel: Donna Dasko, Senior Vice President, Environics Research Group; Amy Go, Director, Long Term Care, Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care; Haroon Siddiqui, Editorial Page, Editor Emeritus, The Toronto Star. Moderator: Richard Gwyn, Columnist, The Toronto Star .

The forum is FREE though seating is limited. Contact Stephanie Saunders, (416) 944-2627 ext. 241 or ssaunders@maytree.com for information. The Maytree Foundation,170 Bloor Street West, Suite 804, Toronto, ON, M5S 1T9 Phone: (416) 944-2627 Fax: (416) 944-8915 Visit: www.maytree.com

RIIM's initial exchange programme with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) has been expanded into a formal agreement between Simon Fraser University and SASS. This new agreement will allow visiting scholars from both institutions to enjoy greater support whilst studying in China or Canada. The agreement was signed in Shanghai on February 15, 2001 as part of Team Canada's Trade mission.

RIIM's Immigration Lecture Series: Peter Li, of the University of Saskatchewan, kicked off the RIIM series by presenting a talk entitled "Friends or Foes? The Chinese in Canada" November 10, 2000 at SFU's Harbour Centre campus. The second lecture, featuring Don DeVoretz speaking at a Canada West Foundation/Council for Canadian Unity luncheon in Calgary, Alberta, on February 8, 2001.

Web News

Metropolis hopes you like the new look of the website, currently being redesigned. The Metropolis Student Register is operational. If you have questions about the website generally, please contact Jean Viel at jv_metro@istar.ca or Steven Morris at steven.morris@9522apx.cina.cic.cic.x400.gc.ca about the student register.

Products

Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI) Issue 3 of the Journal of International Migration and Integration was mailed to subscribers on February 8, 2001.

Parekh, B. (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. London: Macmillan.

"ETHNICITIES" Editors: Stephen May and Tariq Modood University of Bristol, UK, Corresponding US Editors: Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council, New York, USA, Troy Duster, University of California, Berkeley and New York University, USA and Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

There is currently a burgeoning interest in both sociology and politics around questions of ethnicity, nationalism and related issues such as identity politics and minority rights. Ethnicities is a new cross-disciplinary journal that will provide a critical dialogue between these debates in sociology and politics, and related disciplines. Ethnicities has three broad aims, each of which will add a new and distinctive dimension to the academic analysis of ethnicity, nationalism, identity politics and minority rights.

Ethnicities aims to achieve a critical nexus between the disciplines of sociology and politics with respect to debates on ethnicity, nationalism and identity politics. Ethnicities also aims to explore the complex interconnections between culture and socioeconomic structure with respect to the mobilisation of ethnicity, other social movements, and the implications of such mobilisation(s) for modern nation-states. The journal will have a truly international reach, as reflected in the composition and research expertise of the Editorial and International Advisory Boards. The journal welcomes discussion of any country or region of the world, as well as transnational and diasporic contexts. Contributors are encouraged to set their work, wherever possible, within a transnational and/or transregional perspective.

The first issue of Ethnicities is to be published in April 2001. There will be 3 issues per volume, with the journal being published in April, August and December of each year.

Submission of mss: Authors should retain one copy of their manuscript and send four identical copies, each fully numbered and typed in double spacing throughout, on one side only of white A4 or US standard size paper, and a disk version saved in MS Word 6/7 or RTF to: Stephen May and Tariq Modood, Editors, Ethnicities, Sociology Department, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UQ, UK. Fax: +44 117 954 6609 Email: ethnicities-journal@bristol.ac.uk Please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal. Books for review and manuscripts of reviews should be sent to the Editorial Assistant, Sociology Department, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UQ, UK. Email: ethnicities-journal@bristol.ac.uk Website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Sociology

Papers

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2. Working paper series

Abu-Laban, Yasmeen. 2000. "Reconstructing an Inclusive Citizenship for a New Millennium: Globalization, Migration and Difference," in International Politics, 37, 4 (December) pp. 509-526.

Abu-Laban, Yasmeen and Daiva Stasiulis. 2000. "Constructing 'Ethnic Canadians': The Implications for Public Policy and Inclusive Citizenship," in Canadian Public Policy, vol. XXVI, No.4, pp. 477-487.

Abu-Laban, Yasmeen and Tim Nieguth. 2000. "Reconsidering the Constitution, Minorities and Politics in Canada," in The Canadian Journal of Political Science XXXIII, 3 (September) pp. 465-497.

Archibald, J. 2000. Second language acquisition. In W. O'Grady and J. Archibald, eds. Contemporary Linguistic Analysis, 4th edition. Addison Wesley Longman.

Derwing, T.M., K. Jamieson and M.J. Munro. (In Press). "Citizenship Education for Adult Immigrants: Changes Over the Last Ten Years," in Alberta Journal of Educational Research.

Este, David. "Factors Influencing Child Rearing Practices of Recently Migration East Indian and Chinese Women with Children from Infancy to Age Six (Final Report Submitted to PCERII)

Sethi, S., D. Este, and M. Charlebois. (In Submission). Factors Influencing the Child-rearing Practices of Recently Migrated Chinese and East Indian Women with Children from Infancy to Age Six. Hong Kong Nursing Journal.

Grant, H., and R. Oertel. (Forthcoming). "Diminishing Returns to Immigration? Interpreting the Economic Experience of Canadian Immigrants," Canadian Ethnic Studies.

Hum, Derek and Wayne Simpson. 2000. "Earnings and Employment of Visible Minority Immigrants." Final Report Submitted to PCERII.

Hum, Derek and Wayne Simpson. 1999. "Wage Opportunities for Visible Minorities in Canada." Canadian Public Policy. 25 (September): 379-394.

Hum, Derek and Wayne Simpson. 2000. "Not All Visible Minorities Face Discrimination in the Labour Market, " in Policy Options. (December). Pp.

Krahn, Harvey, Tracey Derwing, Marlene Mulder and Lori Wilkinson. 2000. "Educated and under-employed: Refugee integration into the Canadian labour market." Journal of International Migration and Integration 1(1): 59-84.

Li, Peter S. 2000. "Economic Returns of Immigrants' Self-employment." Canadian Journal of Sociology. 25 (1): 1-34.

Li, Peter S. (Forthcoming, 2001). "Immigrants' Propensity to Self-employment: Evidence from Canada." International Migration Review. 35 (3).

Li, Peter S. 1999. Earning Opportunities of Immigrants: An Analysis of Urban Scale, Industrial Structure, and Enclave Economy on Income Disparity. Final Report, March.

Ma, Xin. 2000. "The First Ten Years in Canada: A Multilevel Assessment of Behavioural and Emotional Problems of Immigrant Children." Final Report Submitted to PCERII.

Neufeld, A., M. Harrison, K. Hughes, D. Spitzer, and M. Steward. (In Submission). "Participation of Immigrant Women Caregivers in Qualitative Research. (Health Care for Women International).

Abouguendia, M., and K.A. Noels. (In Press). "General and Acculturation-related Daily Hassles and Psychological Adjustment in First- and Second-generation South Asian Immigrants to Canada," in International Journal of Psychology.

Clement, R., and K.A. Noels. (In Press). "Inter-ethnic Contact, Identity, and Psychological Adjustment: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Communication," in Journal of Social Issues.

Giles, H., V. Barker, K.A. Noels, J. Duck, M. Hecht, and R. Clement. (In Press). "The English-only Movement: A communication Analysis of Changing Linguistic Vitality," in Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Giles, H., B. Liang, K.A. Noels, and R. McCann. (In Press). "Communication Across and Within Generations: Taiwanese', Chinese-Americans' and Euro-Americans' Perceptions of Communication," in Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.

Maurier, Wendy L. and Herbert C. Northcott. 2000. Aging in Ontario: Diversity in the New Millennium. Calgary: Detselig.

Petrovic, Edit. 2000. Comparative Analysis of the Adaptation and Integration Processes Among Kurdish and Yugoslave Immigrants in Alberta. Final Report. Share Drive

Tastsoglou, Evangelia. 2000. Immigrant Women Organizing for Change: Integration and Community Development by Immigrant Women in the Maritimes. (June) Final Report Submitted to PCERII.

Miedema, Baukje (Bo) and Evangelia Tastsoglou. 2000. "'But Where Are You From, Originally?' Immigrant Women and Integration in the Maritimes." Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal. Vol. 24, 2, Spring/Summer, pp. 82-91.

Tastsoglou, Evangelia and Kiran Mirchandani. 2000. "Toward a Diversity Beyond Tolerance," in Studies in Political Economy. 61, Spring. Pp. 49-78.

Tastsoglou, Evangelia. 2000. "Mapping the Unknowable: The Challenges and Rewards of Cultural, Political, and Pedagogical Border Crossing," in Power, Knowledge and Anti-Racism Education. George Sefa Dei and Agnes Calliste, eds. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, pp. 98-121.

Wanner, Richard A. (Forthcoming). "Shifting Origins, Shifting Labour Markets: Trends in the Occupational Attainment of Male Immigrants to Canada, 1971-1996." International Migration Review.

Young, David, Denise Spitzer and Florence Pang. 1999. "Understanding the Health Care Needs of Canadian Immigrants." (June) Final Report Submitted to PCERII.

PCERII Graduate Student Theses

Keith, Trisha. 2000. The Impact of Victimization Inside and Outside of School on Student Well-being: An Analysis of Immigrant Children and Youth. MA Thesis. (June). Supervisor: Dr. Bernard Schissel, Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan.

Whittmire, Alison. (In Progress). Immigrant Families' Perception of and Experiences with Elementary and Secondary Education Systems in Canada. MA Thesis. Supervisor: Dr. Bernard Schissel, Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan.

Related Events

RE-INVENTING SOCIETY IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ECONOMY J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto MARCH 8-10, 2001   Conference sessions will focus on the impact of global economic change. The conference is sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Sociology and the R.F. Harney Professorship and Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies. Conference organizing committee: Raymond Breton, Jeffrey G. Reitz  

This two day seminar being held at Pier 21 in Halifax March 15-16 will help stimulate interest in the Metropolis Project in the Atlantic region. The aim is to acquaint researchers and other stakeholders with the Project, with research that is underway and with the structure and organization of existing Centres, offering possible models of collaboration and organization in the event that a Metropolis Centre of Excellence is established in Atlantic Canada. For more information please contact John Biles at john_biles@pch.gc.ca

Annual Meeting of The Population Association of America, Washington March 29-31, 2001.
The PAA meeting is one of the most important for students of migration, so there are a large number of immigration-related sessions, papers, and posters, listed below. For more information, go to: http://www.popassoc.org/meetings.html

33^rd EUROFOR- Conference from May 24th to 27th, 2001. A few changes had to be effected in the schedule of the EUROFOR Conferences: there will not be a conference in Crete in February 2001, thought the topic, "The Integration of Refugees in the European Union", will be dealt with at the 33^rd EUROFOR-conference in Maratea (Potenza), Basilicata, Italy.

The application deadline for scholarships, which would include travel expenses, the participation fee and accommodation costs for young researchers (35 or younger) is FEBRUARY 28th, 2001 for EU nationals or citizens of associated states. Unfortunately there is no funding available for those who do not qualify for the EC young researchers scholarships. Please see the new website [ www.emz-berlin.de ] for further information.

8th Armenian Medical World Congress, sponsored by Armenian International Medical Committee, will be held from July 4-7, 2001 in Toronto, Canada. Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2001. For more details on this conference, visit http://www.amwc2001.com

National Settlement Conference, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. June 18-20, 2001, Ingrid Hauck and Reza Shahbazi, co-chairs.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and the settlement sector have announced the first National Settlement Conference, the first national forum on settlement policy issues, to be held this June. This Conference will be an opportunity to debate priority policy issues, to strengthen the settlement sector, and to facilitate learning within the sector. The conference planning committee will bring together invited delegates from the settlement community, provincial and federal governments, and other community stakeholders who are directly involved with new immigrants and refugees in Canada.

Universal Forum of Cultures - Barcelona 2004 Yvonne Hébert (University of Calgary) and Penny Milton (Executive Director of the Canadian Education Association) are the lead players in creating a Canadian network of learning communities in connection with the Universal Forum of Cultures. These school-based learning communities will explore questions of citizenship and human rights and will link up with their counterparts in other countries around the world. If you are interested in this initiative or would like further information, please contact Yvonne Hébert at yhebert@ucalgary.ca

Calls for Proposals/Papers

The deadline for workshop proposals for the National Settlement Conference was February 16, 2001. You may contact Lise Poissant at 613-952-5962 or by e-mail at lise.poissant@8435sie.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca for further information.

Society for Marketing Advances: formerly Southern Marketing Association, the society will hold a conference at the New Orleans Hilton in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 6-10, 2001. New Orleans offers an array of appealing sites, scenes, and savory cuisine! SMA offers a variety of professional opportunities, including presentations and discussions of cutting-edge issues in research, teaching, and faculty development. If anyone is interested in submitting a paper to this conference, please contact Dr. Don B. Bradley III, track chair of Retailing and Entrepreneurship, at Donb@mail.uca.edu Submission Deadline: April 3, 2001, or visit http://mkt.cba.cmich.edu/sma/

International Workshop: Gender, Ethnicity, and Globalization:Interdisciplinary Perspectives 30 and 31 March 2001, Kasteel Vaeshartelt, Maastricht, The Netherlands

This workshop aims to investigate the dynamics of globalization from an interdisciplinary perspective. For further details, mail to Prof. dr. Ginette Verstraete, University of Maastricht/University of Amsterdam ginette.verstraete@lk.unimaas.nl , or Dr. Baukje Prins, University of Groningen, b.prins@philos.rug.nl

Conference on 'Public policy and the institutional context of immigrant businesses' Liverpool, United Kingdom, March 22-25, 2001 This is the final in a series titled 'working on the fringes: immigrant businesses, economic integration and informal practices'. The first two in Amsterdam (April and October 1999) and Jerusalem (June 2000) reviewed existing national research, and the socio-economic context of immigrant businesses, respectively. Participants in the final conference will emphasize legal, institutional and public policy issues. For more information on the conferences and the international network see http://home.pscw.uva.nl/rath/imment/tserthird.htm or contact Giles Barrett ( g.a.barrett@livjm.ac.uk ), David Mcevoy ( d.mcevoy@livjm.ac.uk ) or Jan Rath ( rath@pscw.uva.nl )

Sweatshop U.S.A.: Essays in the New Social History Edited by Richard A. Greenwald (United States Merchant Marine Academy) and Laura Hapke (Pace University). With a forward by Daniel Walkowitz (New York University).

The proposed collection attempts to tap work now being done by labour and working-class history scholars in a number of timely ways. The essays to be collected will trace the sweatshop as "institution," symbol and myth. What are the true origins of such oppressed labor? At what point did the sweatshop dislodge itself from the items "sweated labor," "white slavery," and the "sweating system." Moreover, why does this matter? Explored too will be the political, social, economic, gendered, and cultural aspects of the sweatshop from the mid-1800s to the present. The editors hope to renew a discourse on the sweatshop among labour scholars. Those interested in participating: Please send, by April 1, 2001, a brief abstract and CV to: Richard A. Greenwald US Merchant Marine Academy Humanities Department Kings Point, NY 11024 Or email as Word Attachments to greenwaldr@usmma.edu 

International Sociological Association (ISA) Conferences - Research Committee on the Sociology of Migration (RC31)

Migration Between States and Markets Liège, Belgium, May 17 - 19,  2001

The Inter-congress Meeting of RC 31 will question and analyze the tensions between states and markets that result from immigration. Organizers also intend to analyze the impact of immigration on identity, citizenship, loyalty, integration, cohesion and other notions traditionally linked to the concept of the nation-state, but now increasingly challenged and under discussion. Abstracts of papers (in English) up to 300 words should be sent as soon as possible, latest by March 16, 2001, to: Marco Martiniello, Fac. de Droit, Bt. 31 Bte 43 Univ Liege, 7 blvd. Du Rectorat, B-4000 Liege, Belgium, Tel: 32-4-3663040, Fax: 32-4-3664557, m.martiniello@ulg.ac.be

IM wishes to welcome its new secretary, Diane Roy. Diane can be contacted by E-mail at diane.roy@umontreal.ca

Diane Roy s'est jointes à IM à titre de secrétaire, son email:diane.roy@umontreal.ca.

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