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Fifth International Metropolis Conference
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Opening Ceremony
Words of Welcome:
Meyer Burstein, Co-Chair,
International Metropolis Project, Canada
Elinor Caplan, Minister of
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Sue Hammel, Minister of
Multiculturalism and Immigration Ministry, British Colombia
Portrait of Vancouver's Diversity: Recent Immigrants in the Vancouver Metropolitan Area
Chair: Philip Owen, Mayor of Vancouver
Elizabeth Ruddick, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
An Artist's Perspective on Immigration
Anita Rau Badami, author of Tamarind Mem and Hero's Walk
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Panel of Immigration Ministers
Moderator : Dr. Gilles Paquet, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa |
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Racism and Discrimination: Is Public Policy up to the Challenge?
Chair: Hedy Fry, Secretary of State
(Multiculturalism) (Status of Women), Canada
Speakers:
Jan Niessen,
Migration Policy Group, Brussels
Peter Li, University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon
Valerie Preston, York University, Toronto |
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Migrant Smuggling and Criminal Corporatism
Chair: Guido Bolaffi, Ministry of Social Affairs,
Italy
Speakers:
Robert Paiva, International Organization for
Migration, Geneva
Ko Lin Chin, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
Jonas Widgren, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Austria |
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Keynote address: "Immigration, Trust, and Social Order"
Chair: Howard Duncan, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Speaker:
Bhikhu Parekh, University of Hull, United Kingdom |
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Transnational Communities and their Implications
for Citizenship and Social Order
Chair: Francine Fournier,
UNESCO
Speakers:
Michael Fix, The Urban Institute, Washington
D.C.
Patrick Weil, University of Paris
Stephen Castles, University of Wollongong, Australia |
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Transnational Communities and their
Implications for National and Local Economies, for Business, and for
Labour
Chair: Richard Bedford, University of Waikato,
New Zealand
Speakers:
Steve Vertovec, Oxford University
David Ley, Oxford University
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Youth and The Second Generation: Trends in Social
and Economic Integration
Chair: Rinus Penninx, Co-Chair, International
Metropolis Project, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Speakers:
Aristide Zolberg, New School for Social
Research, New York
Marie McAndrew, Immigration et métropoles,
Université de Montréal
Jean Gaeremynck, Ministère
de l'emploi et de la solidarité, France
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Keynote address: "Managing
Gateways: The Moral Challenges of a Liberal
Democracy"
Chair: John Scratch, Assistant Deputy Attorney
General, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Speaker:
Sarah Spencer,
Institute for Public Policy Research, United Kingdom
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Migration and The Future of Borders: Schengen;
Mexico/US/Canada
Speakers:
Chair: Janice Cochrane, Deputy
Minister, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Martha Nixon, Citizenship
and Immigration Canada, Ottawa
Demetrios Papademetriou, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Washington
Steven Peers, University of Essex, UK |
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Keynote address: "Demographic Change and the Coming Global Competition for
Immigrants"
Chair: Meyer Burstein, Co-Chair, International
Metropolis Project, Canada
Speaker:
Joseph Chamie, United Nations, Population Division, New York
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Building Social Capital: Culture and Civic
Participation
Chair: Jonathan Crush, Southern African Migration
Project, Capetown, South Africa
Speakers:
Belle Puri, CBC (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation), Vancouver
John Helliwell, University of
British Colombia, Vancouver
Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide, Australia |
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Competition for Highly Skilled
Workers
Chair: Herman Meijer, Alderman, City of
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Speakers:
Jairam Ramesh, All-India
Congress Committee, New Delhi
Joanna K.C. Lam, Hong Kong Baptist
University, Hong Kong
Robert Crow, Information Technology Association of Canada |
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