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Dispatches
Vol 1. No. 4
September 15, 2000
Partner Update
Metropolis Events
Web News
Products
Related Initiatives
Related Events
Calls for Papers/Proposals
Dispatches focuses on providing timely information (bimonthly) concentrating
on results, upcoming events, and updates on various experiments conducted by
the international Metropolis partners. It is your communications device, please
make use of it. To have information placed in Dispatches, or to comment on content or structure, please contact John Biles at +44 819 997-5791 (john_biles@pch.gc.ca).
Partner Update
Belgium
At the request of the Council of Europe, the Migration Policy Group (MPG) has prepared a report on diversity in Europe. The report will guide the Council's work on immigrant and minority integration issues and assist the Council's 41 member states to design and implement diversity and cohesion policies. The report was prepared by Jan Niessen and has a preface by President Havel of the Czech Republic. It can be ordered in English and French from Mrs Maria Ochoa-Llido at the Council of Europe at Maria.Ochoa-Llido@coe.int
Canada The Metropolis Project Team at Citizenship and Immigration Canada is involved in co-organizing two Metropolis Conversations in the coming month. The first, with the Department of Canadian Heritage will address the extent to which the Canadian diversity model attracts immigrants to Canada, and encourages them to stay after arrival. The second, with Human Resources Development Canada will examine labour market outcomes of immigrants in Canada.
These conversations are the third and fourth in a series designed to transfer knowledge among senior policymakers, practitioners and researchers. For more information on the Conversations please contact Katherine Pestieau at katherine.pestieau@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca
Citizenship and Immigration Canada has launched a
new website: the Refugee Resettlement Partners website (http://www.cic.gc.ca/ref-protection ) which provides information on refugee processing; links to other related sites; events and activities; and contacts.
The Netherlands
The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at
the University of Amsterdam has released its second five year research plan.
Details of the plan can be found on the IMES website at
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/imes
The latest newsletter from IMES on the UNESCO-MOST Project, Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship in European Cities is now posted on both the IMES site and
the UNESCO-MOST site (http://www.unesco.org/most ). New working papers should also be posted shortly.
Portugal
Metropolis Portugal continues efforts to
strengthen the policy dialogue among politicians, researchers and civil
actors on migrant matters in Portugal. In late July the Metropolis project
leaders organized a roundtable with leading politicians from the
parliament, the trade unions and government to debate the new immigration law just prior to its final debate in parliament.
The European Commission's Directorate General, Justice and Home Affairs, in conjunction with the Luso-American Development Foundation and the Metropolis Project, held a special seminar on migration in Lisbon on September 14 and 15. This meeting was part of the European Union's efforts to develop a common migration policy as mandated by the Treaty of Amsterdam.
A new publication in English on the migration
situation in Portugal entitled "IS AN ETHCLASS EMERGING IN EUROPE? THE
PORTUGUESE CASE" has been printed by the Luso American Foundation. It is
written by Maria Baganha, Jose Marques and Graça Fonseca and can be
requested by email to flad@individual.eunet.pt
United Kingdom
The Centre for European Migration and ethnic
Studies (CEMES) has recently updated its website (http://www.cemes.org ). The site now contains:
- A new directory of research institutes, centres and
departments in 30 European countries.
- Up-to-date information on the Journal of Ethnic and
Migration Studies.
- CEMES publications, including information on the Eurobarometer Programme.
For more information please check the website or contact
CEMES Director, Malcolm Cross, at director@cemes.org
Metropolis
Events
Fifth International Metropolis Conference
(Vancouver November 13-17, 2000)
The virtual programme for the conference, including descriptions of the plenary sessions and the fifty-two thematic workshops, has been posted on the international Metropolis website. Registration is now available on-line. Space is limited so register now!
In addition, we are testing a new interactive element of the conference package – virtual discussions. We hope to stimulate discussions among participants in workshops prior to and following the workshops themselves. This will increase the focus of the workshops themselves and ensure that the networking aspects of the conference continue long after the event itself is over. To access the discussions, select the hotlink under each workshop in the virtual programme and register. Once registered, you can begin to engage in the discussions.
Web News
The International Metropolis website (www.international.metropolis.net) averaged close to 50,000 visitors per month for the first eight months of this year. As more content is added to this site we expect traffic to increase exponentially.
On the Canadian site of the Metropolis website network under "Policy and Research" the Political Participation Research Network web niche is almost operational. Those interested in joining the network will be able to register themselves, add to the virtual bibliography of recent work in the area and alert members of the network about upcoming events. For more information on this niche, please contact John Biles at john_biles@pch.gc.ca
Products
New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre
of Excellence
Barry Chiswick and Paul W. Miller The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Don DeVoretz and Chona Iturralde Probability of Staying in Canada
Ravi Pendakur, Fernando Mata, Stan Lee and Natalie Dole Job Mobility and Promotion in the Federal Public Service
Eden Nicole Thompson Immigrant Occupational Skill Outcomes and the Role of Region-Specific Human Capital
Christiane Werner A Taste of Canada: An Analysis of Food Expenditure Patterns for Canadian-born and Foreign-born Consumers
Copies of papers can be found on the Metropolis website
at http://canada.metropolis.net
New Working Paper from the Montreal Metropolis Centre of Excellence
Vania Jimenez, Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez, Margot Loiselle-Leonard and Jacques Marleau Bilan des écrits du Québec sur les services de santé et les services sociaux.
This paper is available from metropolis@ere.umontreal.ca
New Working Papers from the Transnational Communities Programme at Oxford
Ravindra K. Jain Culture and Economy: Tamils on the Plantation Frontier in Malaysia Revisited, 1998-99
Michèle Lamont Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Boundaries among Non-College Educated Workers
N. Henry, C. McEwan, and J. Pollard Globalisation from below: Birmingham – postcolonial workshop of the world?
Antoine Pécoud Cosmopolitanism and Business: Entrepreneurship and Identity among German-Turks in Berlin
Ali Rogers A European Space for Transnationalism?
Steven Vertovec Fostering Cosmopolitanisms: A Conceptual Survey and A Media Experiment in Berlin
G. Pascal Zachary Dueling multiculturalisms: the urgent need to reconceive cosmopolitanism
All papers can be found on the programme’s website
at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk
New Publications from the Centre for Comparative Immigration Studies
Manuel Pastor and Enrico Marcelli Social, Spatial, and Skill Mismatch among Immigrants and Native-Born Workers in Los Angeles
Cristóbal Mendoza The Role of the State in Influencing African Labour Outcomes in Spain and Portugal
Holk Stobbe Undocumented Migration in the USA and Germany
Julie Watts The Unconventional Immigration Policy Preferences of Labor Unions in Spain, Italy, and France
Terri Givens Gender Differences in Support for Radical-right, Anti-Immigrant Political Parties
Nancy Naples Economic Restructuring and Racialization: Incorporation of Mexican and Mexican Americans in the Rural Midwest
Cynthia Cranford Economic Restructuring, Immigration and the New Labor Movement: Latina/o Janitors in Los Angeles
Marc Rosenblum US Immigration Relations with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, 1977-1999
Margaret L. Usdansky and Thomas J. Espenshade The H-1B Visa Debate in Historical Perspective: The Evolution of U.S. Policy Toward High-Skilled Foreign Workers
B. Lindsay Lowell Specialty Temporary Workers and the U.S. Labor Force
Magnus Lofstrom Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Monica Boyd Matching Workers to Work: The Case of Asian Immigrant Engineers in Canada
AnnaLee Saxenian Silicon Valley’s New Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Rafael G. Alarcón Migrants of the Information Age: Indian and Mexican Engineers and Scientists and Regional Development in Silicon Valley
Christián Zlolniski Mexico as a Source of Low and High-Skill Labor for California’s High-Tech Industries
Aneesh Rethinking Migration: High-Skilled Labor Flows from India to the United States
Paula Chakravartty The Emigration of High-Skilled Indian Workers to the United States: Flexible Citizenship and India's Information Economy
Mahmood Iqbal The Migration of High-Skilled Workers from Canada to the United States
All papers can be found on-line at http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/working_papers.htm
Related Initiatives
Caledon Institute for
Social Policy
The Caledon Institute for Social Policy has published Equal Access to Student Loans for Convention Refugees. Fax + (613) 729-3896
The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation
The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation has published The Newcomer’s Guide to Canadian Housing which can be found on their website at http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
TOPIA – A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
TOPIA is a scholarly journal in cultural and
Canadian Studies. It’s purpose is to create a dialogue among researchers
who share a concern with cultures, nationalities, technologies and the
politics of space. For more information, please see http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/journal
European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC)
The quarterly publication of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Roma Rights, has a
special issue on "Women’s Rights" available on their website at http://errc.org
Migrants Rights International
Migrants Rights International runs a "migrants
rights" information list server. To subscribe send an e-mail with
"subscribe" in the subject line to migrantwatch@vtx.ch
European Network on the Integration of Refugees
The European Network on the Integration of
Refugees produces a quarterly newsletter in both electronic and print
format. To subscribe to the electronic version send an e-mail to webmaster@refugeenet.org There
is also an extensive series of reports on their website (www.refugeenet.org ) which include:
- First European Conference on the Integration of
Refugees: Conference Report
- Seminar on Vocational Training and Employment of
Refugees: Report and Conclusions
- Second European Conference on Integration of
Refugees: Conference Report
- Refugees and Employment in Europe: background
Information on National Situations
- Refugees and Employment: the European Context – an
Analysis of the ECRE Task Force on Integration Survey of Refugee Employment
- Refugees and Self Employment: Report from the Seminar
on Self Employment for Refugees
- Refugee Perceptions on Employment: Report from the
Refugee Employment Working Group
- Developing a refugee employment Agenda: Report from the Expert Meeting on Refugee Employment
UNHCR
THE UNHCR has released the latest edition of
"refugees." It focuses on the debate over asylum in the U.S. and Canada.
It can be found on-line at http://www.unhcr.ch/pubs/rm119all.pdf
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
SIM, the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights has
created a mailing list which sends out updates to its 200 members once a
month. The homepage of this initiative is http://SIM.human.rights.listbot.com/
Canadian Policy Research Network (CPRN)
The CPRN has launched its "Social Cohesion Nexus."
This initiative will be a locus for researchers, policymakers and other
interested participants to keep track and further explore the concept of
social cohesion. Updates will be sent to subscribers every three weeks. To
subscribe please go to the main CPRN website at http://www.cprn.org
Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National university
New discussion posted on the site of the Centre
(http://cepr.anu.edu.au/discussionpapers.htm ) include:
Deborah Cobb-Clark Do Selection Criteria Make a Difference? Visa Category and the Labour Force Status of Australian Immigrants
Deborah Cobb-Clark and Bruce Chapman The Changing Pattern of Immigrants’ Labour Market Experiences
Related Events
Federalisms and Globalization: The Future of Democracy
and Citizenship
(Montreal, Canada, September 29-30, 2000)
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/criteres/
Nation-States, Multination-States and Supernational
organizations
(Montreal, Canada, October 3-6, 2000)
http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~lepagef/multination2000
Democracy Beyond the Nation-State: Perspectives on
Post-National order
(Athens, Greece October 5-7, 2000)
hpsagr@cc.uoa.gr
Knowledge, Power, Gender: Philosophy and the Future of
the Female Condition
(Zurich, Switzerland October 4-8, 2000)
http://www.iaph.org/zurich2000.htm
3rd Intenational
Business and Economics Conference
(Wisconsin, U.S.A. October 6-7, 2000)
Themes include Multiculturalism in the workplace
http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/docs/bulletins/interbusconf.html
Canadian Citizenship in the New Millenium
(Montreal ,
Canada October 20-21, 2000)
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/misc/citicone.htm
22nd Associatioon for
Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference
(Seattle, November 2-4,
2000)
Theme: Doing and Using Public Policy Analysis and Management Research
http://www.Appam.org
International Migration in Latin America Enters a New
Millennium
(Buenos Aires, Argentina November 2-4, 2000)
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/cforp102.htm
Self-Employment, Gender and Migration,
(Wiesbaden-Naurod, Germany, November 11-16, 2000)
http://www.esf.org/euresco
Race, Ethnicity and Migration: The United States in
Global Context
(Minnesota U.S.A.,November 16-18, 2000)
rem@tc.umn.edu
era21
(Vancouver, Canada November 17-20, 2000)
Themes: Anti-Racism, Hate Crime, Immigration, Racism
Era21@post.queensu.ca
Policy Research Conference: Canada in a Global Society
(Ottawa, Canada
November 30-December 1, 2000)
http://www.policyresearch.gc.ca
Mid-Term Conference on Identity Politics, Multiculturalism and Education
(Hua-lien, Taiwan December 1-3, 2000)
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/cforp87.htm
Education, Diversity, Social Equity, Citizenship and
National Identity: Cross-Cultural Comparisons
(Goa, India December 11-14,
2000)
f.ouelle@courrier.usherb.ca
Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS)
Theme: Organizing Knowledge Economies and Societies
(Sydney, Australia
December 14-15, 2000)
http://www.gsm.mq.edu.au/ANZAM/
The Spiritual Supermarket, Religious Pluralism and Globalisation in the 21st Century: The Expanding
European Union and Beyond
London, England April 19-22, 2001)
inform@lse.ac.uk
Exploring Canadian Identities
(Torun, Poland April
20-22, 2001)
Canadian Studies Resource Centre
Nicholas Copernicus
University
+48 56 622-7710
Migration Between States and Markets
(Liege Belgium
May 2001)
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa.cforp103.htm
Labour, Migration and the Global Economy: Past, Present
and Future
(Detroit, U.S.A. October 18-20, 2001)
ad5247@wayne.edu
Ethnicizing the Nation
Canadian Ethnic Studies
Association Sixteenth Biennial Conference
(Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
November 2-4, 2001)
Themes:
Sites of popular culture
Memory, place
and politics
Generations: continuity and change
Intersecting Ethnicities
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/mhso/conferenceinfo.htm
Call for Papers/Proposals
Journal of Consumer Culture
Contributions for early issues are now being sought.
Deadline for submisison for first issue (due out June 1, 2001) is September
2000. For more information please contact George Ritzer (ritzer@socy.umd.edu) or Don Slater (d.slater@gold.ac.uk).
International Migration in Latin America Enters a New
Millennium
(November 2-4, 2000, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Abtracts of
papers to be sent to Enrique Oteiza (eoteiza@mail.fsoc.uba.ar ) no later than October 1, 2000.
Strangers and Citizens: Challenges for European
Governance, Identity and Citizenship
(Dundee, UK March 17-19, 2001)
Proposals for papers, with one page abstract, should be faxed to Dr. G. Lazaridis by November 1, 2000 at +44 1382 344675.
Sessions for 2001 Meetings of Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
More information can be found at http://www.publish.uwo.ca/~pomfret/csaa/laval2001/ Deadline Nov. 1, 2000.
Exploring Canadian Identities (Torun, Poland April 20-22, 2001)
Paper proposals and c.v. should be faxed to organizers by November 1, 2000 at +48 56 622-7710 or e-mail kallas@maius.uni.torun.pl
The Spiritual Supermarket, Religious Pluralism and Globalisation in the 21st Century: The Expanding
European Union and Beyond
(London, England April 19-22, 2001)
100-200 word abstracts due by December 2000 to inform@lse.ac.uk
Edited Volume on Inter Religious Interethnic Marriages Among Muslim Women
100 Word abstracts should be sent to Parin Dossa (pdossa@sfu.ca ) no later than December 15, 2000.
Migration Between States and Markets (Liege, Belgium May
2001)
Abstracts of papers to be sent to Marco Martiniello (m.martiniello@ulg.ac.be ) no later than March 16, 2001.
The End of the Nation State? A Challenge for Europe's
Regions
(Dundee, UK September 28-30, 2001)
Proposals for papers, with one page abstract should be faxed by April 1, 2001,
to Drs. G. Lazaridis and A. Wright at +44 1382 344675.
Ethnicizing the Nation: Canadian Ethnic Studies
Association Sixteenth Biennial Conference (Halifax, Canada November 2-4, 2001)
Proposals to be sent no later than December 4, 2000 to CESA 2001 mhso.mail@utoronto.ca
The Social Implications of Planning and Design
(Technion, Israel January 2002)
Scholars interested in participating
in this meeting (i.e. chairs, presenters etc.) please contact Willem van Vliet
at willem@spot.colorado.edu
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