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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
A Policy-Research Seminar on Temporary Migration

Ottawa, Ontario
March 12, 2008
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10th National Metropolis Conference
Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 3-6, 2008
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13th International Metropolis Conference
Bonn, Germany, October 27-31, 2008
Workshop proposal deadline extended: March 10, 2008








































































 Recent activities in the Metropolis Priority Areas

Citizenship and Social, Cultural
and Civic Integration

Priority Update

Feature:

Preparing for Diversity: Improving Preventive Health Care for Immigrants

Kevin Pottie & Aleida Tur Kuile, University of Ottawa Luciena Ortiz, Edmonton Multicultural Brokers

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Family, Children, Youth
Priority Update

Feature:

Policy Brief of a Research Study: Understandings of spousal sponsorship in South Asian International Arranged Marriages

Noorfarah Merali, University of Alberta

 

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NEW:

Understanding the Sikh Diaspora…

Justice, Policing and Security
Priority Update

Feature:

‘Securitizing’ Canadian Policing: A New Policing Paradigm For the Post 9/11 Security State?

Christopher Murphy,
Dalhousie University

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Welcoming Communities
Priority Update

Feature:

Immigrant Attraction and Retention: What Can Work and What is Being Done in Atlantic Canada?

Ather Akbari, Atlantic Metropolis Centre Colin Sun, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

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Volume 1, Issue 3, January 2008



How has the identity of
Canada been created?


1,345 informed viewers recently downloaded Landscapes, Memory, Monuments, and Commemoration: Putting Identity in Its Place
by Brian Osborne

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Economic and Labour Market Integration
Priority Update

Feature:

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program: Considerations for the Future of Farming and the Implications of Managed Migration

Nelson Ferguson, Concordia University

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Housing and Neighbourhoods
Priority Update

Feature:

Multiculturalism "on the ground": The Social Geography of Immigrant and Visible Minority Populations in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, Projected to 2017.

Dan Hiebert, Nadine Schuurman, Heather Smith Metropolis British Columbia

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