Table of Contents

1. Introductory Notes

M. Burstein
Executive Head, Metropolis Project

2. Metropolis Research Papers

Preface

J. G. Reitz
Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement - Toronto (CERIS)

2.1 Urban and Regional Diversity

Plight of Immigrants: The Spatial Concentration of Poverty in Canada. . .

S.S. Halli & A. Kazemipur
Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (PCERII)

Immigration and Poverty in Canadian Cities, 1971-1991

D. Ley & H. Smith
Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis - Vancouver (RIIM)

Settlement Patterns of Toronto’s Chinese Immigrants: Convergence or Divergence?

L. Lo & S. Wang
Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement - Toronto (CERIS)

Immigration, Ethnoracial Diversity and Urban Citizenship in Toronto

M. Siemiatycki & E. Isin
Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement - Toronto (CERIS)

2.2 Ethnicity and Economic Institutions

Self-Employment Among Visible Minority Immigrants, White Immigrants, and Native-Born Persons in Secondary and Tertiary Industries of Canada

P. S. Li
Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (PCERII)

Immigration, entrepreneurship, and the family: Indo-Canadian enterprise in the construction industry of Greater Vancouver

M. Walton-Roberts & D. Hiebert
Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis - Vancouver (RIIM)

Borrowed Men on Borrowed Time: Globalization, Labour Migration and Local Economies in Alberta

J. Smart
Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (PCERII)

The Supply and Migration of Canadian Physicians, 1970-1995; Why We Should Learn to Love an Immigrant Doctor

H. Grant & R. Oertel
Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (PCERII)

2.3 Community Participation, Identity and Social Institutions

How the Proportion of Artificial Canadians varied among Regions of Canada and Ethnic Origins between 1991 and 1996

K. J. Krótki
Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (PCERII)

To Stay or not to Stay: Characteristics associated with newcomers planning to remain in Canada

U. George & E. Fuller-Tomson
Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement - Toronto (CERIS)

Évaluation de l'impact relatif des facteurs influençant la dynamique de la concentration ethnique dans les écoles de langue française de l’Île de Montréal

M. McAndrew & M. Ledoux
Montréal Centre for Inter-university Research on Immigration, Integration and Urban Dynamics (IM)

Latin Americans in a Canadian Primary School: Perspectives of Parents, Teachers and Children on Cultural Identity and Academic Achievement

J. Bernhard, S. Nirdosh, M. Freire & F. Torres
Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement - Toronto (CERIS)

L’étranger et la ville

A. Germain
Montréal Centre for Inter-university Research on Immigration, Integration and Urban Dynamics (IM)

Self-Care Strategies for Managing Respiratory Illness in South-East Toronto: Life Histories of Chinese and Caribbean Immigrants

E. Fuller-Tomson, J. Lee, E. Lawson, N. Chaudhuri & M. Thompson
Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement - Toronto (CERIS)

3.0 Experiments in linking Research to Policy; Metropolis Project
& Other Inititatives

Preface

J. Viel
Senior Project Coordinator, Metropolis Project

Le CRSH, la recherche en Sciences humaines et l’élaboration de politiques

M. Renaud
President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Research and Policy Decisions

G. Fyffe
Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Program Development, Citizenship and Immigration Canada

NRC a model for bottom-up approach to innovation

A. J. Carty
President, National Research Council of Canada

Montréal, laboratoire de l’expérience du cosmopolitisme urbain

P. Bourque
Mayor, City of Montréal

Une collaboration fructueuse

M. Gagné
Sous-ministre adjointe à l’immigration et à l’établissement, Ministère des relations avec les citoyens et de l’immigration (Québec)

Canada`s Policy Research Capacity: Observations from the Public Policy Forum

E. Kmiecic
Vice-President, Public Policy Forum

Administrations municipales et recherche scientifique : le cas des affaires interculturelles à la ville de Montréal

M.-C. Dumas
Directrice, Affaires interculturelles, Ville de Montréal

The International Metropolis Project

H. Duncan
International Metropolis Project Director

Making Policy more Responsive to Research: a view from the United States

D. Papademetriou, Senior Associate and Director
D. Ho, Research Assistant
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington), International Migration Policy Program

Social Science and Unesco`s MOST Programme

N. Auriat
Programme Specialist
Unesco-MOST

4. List of Authors and Email Addresses

5. Advertisements

Third National Metropolis Conference in Vancouver

Third International Metropolis Conference in Israel

Metropolis Integrated Network of Policy-Research Web Sites

The European Network for Housing Research