Dispatches from Metropolis International
Vol 2. No. 1
January 15, 2001
Partner Update
Metropolis Events
Web News
Products
Recent Publications
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
IDC Update
The Metropolis International Steering Committee met in Vancouver
on November 17 and 18, 2000. High on the agenda was an analysis of
the Fifth International Metropolis Conference and the program for
the Sixth Conference, upcoming in Rotterdam in November 2001. There
was consensus that the fifth conference successfully continued the
progress that Metropolis has been making and agreement that the workshops
ought to be mildly re-worked to generate more active and productive
discussions. Other Committee decisions included the location of the
Seventh International Conference in Oslo, Norway, to be organized
by the Norwegian government for early autumn, 2002; the development
of a memorandum of understanding between Metropolis and UNESCO/MOST
which would see increased involvement of the Asia-Pacific Migration
Research Network in Metropolis; an announcement of an inter-conference
seminar, "Urban Futures", to be held in May, 2001 near Stockholm,
Sweden; and co-operation between Metropolis and the Croatian Centre
for Strategic Studies in Zagreb to organize an inter-conference seminar
on diasporas in the autumn of 2001. The meeting also discussed a project,
now in its early stages, to identify sources of funding for international
comparative research. For more information please contact either Rinus
Penninx at penninx@pscw.uva.nl
or Howard Duncan at howard.duncan@metropolis.net
Sweden
A Metropolis inter-conference seminar, "Urban Futures: Urban
Policy Developments and Urban Social Transformations in Europe in
the 21st Century", will held from May 10-12 in Sodertalje, Sweden.
It will feature discussions of a number of major policy issues that
European cities will face as a result of increased migration, and
is being organized and supported by the Swedish government and the
city of Sodertalje. Specific themes include urban demographic futures,
urban economic futures, urban social futures, urban policy futures,
and urban practice futures. For additional information, see www.storstad.gov.se
or contact the principal organizer, Kristine Dosen, at kristine.dosen@culture.ministry.se
The complete integration program of the City of Stockholm can be
found on-line at http://www.stockholm.se/infoom/integration
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The IOM has a large number of publications available on the subject
of international migration. The most recent release is the World Migration
Report 2000. This report is a comprehensive and in-depth analysis
of major trends in international migration, and the economic, demographic,
social and political impacts on source, transit and destination countries.
For more information please check http://www.iom.int/iom/publications/entry.htm
Canada
The proceedings of the policy-research seminar on social justice
organized by the Department of Canadian Heritage are now available.
It is the second in a series designed to build a research agenda for
the Multiculturalism Program. The background papers in the proceedings
highlight research gaps in the areas of human rights, hate crimes,
education and recognition/reconciliation of past injustices. The proceedings
will be on the Metropolis website in the near future. In the interim,
if you would like to receive a hard copy, please contact John Biles
at john_biles@pch.gc.ca
European Union
CANADA-EUROPEAN UNION JOINT STATEMENT ON COOPERATION IN JUSTICE AND
HOME AFFAIRS
On December 17, Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chretien, the President
of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, representing the Presidency
of the Council of the European Union, and the President of the European
Commission, Romano Prodi signed a joint statement on cooperation in
justice and home affairs. Included in this statement was a section
on migration, immigration and asylum which included a reference to
Metropolis: " To derive maximum benefit from managed migration,
we will share best practices and research on legal migration regimes,
and the integration of legal migrants, in particular within the Metropolis
network in order to our collective understanding of migration phenomena
and strengthen our strategic action in this area. We will continue
to consult and cooperate bilaterally and in multilateral fora on improving
the international protection regime."
In addition the statement pledged in the area of racism and xenophobia
to, "strengthen our dialogue on study of these phenomena, including
their root causes and effects, and will exchange practices with a
view to contribute to the eradication of such phenomena in our societies.
In particular, this will include, inter alia, substantial regular
contacts between the Vienna-based European Monitoring Centre on Racism
and Xenophobia and the relevant Canadian institutions."
Metropolis Events
Interconference Event: Urban Futures
May 10-12, 2001
For more information please contact Kristine Dosen at kristine.dosen@culture.ministry.se
The Fifth Canadian National Metropolis Conference
The Fifth Canadian National Metropolis Conference will be held in
Ottawa, Canada October 16-20, 2001. For more information please contact
Steven Morris at Steven.Morris@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca
The Sixth International Metropolis Conference
The Sixth International Metropolis Conference will be held in Rotterdam,
The Netherlands November 26-30, 2001. The call for workshop proposals
will be available in January 2001. If you are interested in receiving
more information please contact either Rinus Penninx at penninx@pscw.uva.nl
or Howard Duncan at howard.duncan@metropolis.net
Web News
Atlas
The Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence, RIIM, has posted a
large atlas of diversity in Vancouver on-line at http://www.geog.ubc.ca/metropolis/atlas
The Montreal Metropolis Centre, IM, has also posted a large atlas
of diversity in the Montreal area. It can be found on the Montreal
portion of the national website http://www.canada.metropolis.net
Metadatabase
The Toronto Metropolis Centre, CERIS, has launched its Metadatabase
Project. This project provides an evolving, central Web-based reference
point for a wide variety of databases on ethnoracial demographics
and immigrant settlement information in the Greater Toronto Area.
The Metadatabase comprises information on:
- Census data
- CIC databases
- Survey datasets
- Municipal and service agency databases
- Aggregate client demographics.
The Metadatabase also contains comprehensive information on all CERIS
immigration databases.
The Metadatabase Project will continue to develop linkages to obtain
access to information to use the CERIS communications infrastructure
and network to make the information available to interested researchers
and community partners, including community agencies, affiliated government
offices, university researchers and social planning organizations.
Products
New Working Papers from the Population Studies Centre
Richard Bedford Perspectives on International Migration, Urban Social
Transformation and the Research/Policy Interface
Copies of papers can be requested from demogsec@waikato.ac.nz
New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence
E. Hayfron. The Housing Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Norway
Barry R. Chiswick The Economics of Illegal Migration for the Host
Economy
Daniel Hiebert The Social Geography of Immigration and Urbanization
in Canada: A Review and Interpretation
Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller A Model of Destination Language
Acquisition: Application to Male Immigrants to Canada
Jamie Winders Immigration to Vancouver: An Analytical Review
Daniel Hiebert Cosmopolitanism at the Local Level: Immigrant Settlement
and the Development of Transnational Neighbourhoods
David Prescott, David Wilton, Canan Dadayli and Aaron Dickson, Visits
to Canada: The Role of Canada's Immigrant Populations
J. Atsu Amegashie and John E. Hayfron Perception and Supply: A
Theoretical Analysis with an Application to Immigrants
Alessandra Casarico and Carlo Devillanova Social Security and
Migration with Endogenous Skill Upgrading
Don DeVoretz, Holger Hinte, Christiane Werner Some Immigrant Language
Lessons from Canada and Germany
Copies of papers can be found on the Metropolis website at http://www.canada.metropolis.net
New Working Papers from the Transnational Communities Programme
at Oxford
Martin Sökefeld and Susanne Schwalgin
Institutions and their Agents in the Diaspora: A Comparison of Armenians
in Athens and Alevis in Germany
Roxy Harris and Ben Rampton
Creole Metaphors in Cultural Analysis: The Limits and Possibilities
of Sociolinguistics
Gertrud Hüwelmeier
Women's Congregations as Transnational Communities
Paul Spoonley Reinventing Polynesia: The Cultural Politics of Transnational
Pacific Communities
All papers can be found on-line at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk
Recent Publications by Metropolis Network Members
Rainer Bauböck and John Rundell eds.
Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship
Jacqueline Lidgard and Richard Bedford "New Zealand's International
Migration System at the end of the 20th Century: Review and Prospect"
New Zealand Population Review Vol. 25 No. 1,2 May,November 1999 pgs.
41-57.
John R. Logan and Min Zhou "Ethnic Segmentation in the American
Metropolis: Increasing Divergence in Economic Incorporation, 1980-1990"
International Migration Review Volume 34(Spring 2000) pgs. 98-132.
Related Initiatives
Culture of Cities
A multi-disciplinary research project examining the urban experience
in Montreal, Toronto, Berlin and Dublin. The central question driving
the project is: Is there a shared experience of city life, a set of
encounters, tensions and issues confronting cities, inducing them,
at some level, to be engaged in common problems? Or, on the other
hand, are cities distinct by virtue of their geographic, economic,
cultural and social forces which have molded them? More information
on this project can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/culture_of_cities/about.htm
City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage
The overall goals of this European Commission project are to encourage
sustainable economic development and competitiveness; improve urban
management and integrated planning policy; and to safeguard and improve
the quality of life and cultural identity of citizens. For more information
on this project please contact David Miles at david.miles@cec.eu.int
or consult the web at http://www.cordis.lu/eesd/home.html
Looking Ahead
Human Resources Development Canada, the British Columbia Ministry
of Social Development and a variety of other government and non-governmental
partners created the Looking Ahead project. The goal of this project
is to identify practical community-based initiatives for enhancing
labour force participation of immigrants. The project's website (www.lookingahead.bc.ca)
contains an enormous volume of data on immigration in the Vancouver
area.
Related Events
Re-Inventing Society in a Changing Global Economy
(Toronto, Canada March 6-10, 2001)
reitz@chass.utoronto.ca
The Spiritual Supermarket, Religious Pluralism and Globalisation
in the 21st Century: The Expanding European Union and Beyond
(London, United Kingdom 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
Health Care in a Complex World: An International Research Conference
(Toronto, Canada May 2-4, 2001)
http://www.nursing.utoronto.ca/research/conferences/
The Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Conference
(Montreal, Canada May 3-6, 2001)
Theme: Culture, Difference and Inequality
http://casca2001.mcgill.ca/
Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Gained: Negotiating Interdisciplinarity
in the Twenty-First Century
(Calgary, Canada May 9-12, 2001)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/paradigms
Workshop on Asian Immigrants and Entrepreneurs in the European Community
(Nijmegen, The Netherlands May 11-12, 2001)
lt.vannaerssen@bw.kun.nl
Association of Canadian Studies
(Quebec City, Canada May 25-27, 2001)
General Theme: Alternatives to mainstream Canada
http://www.acs-aec.ca
Networks and Transformations
(Manchester, United Kingdom July 2-4, 2001)
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/gsa
Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics
(Bath, United Kingdom July 6-8, 2001)
j.zylinska@bathspa.ac.uk
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance
(South Africa, August 31-September 7, 2001)
lwiseberg.hchr@unog.ch
Multinational Enterprises: Embedded Organisations, Transnational
Federations or
Global Learning Communities?
(Coventry, United Kingdom, September 6-8, 2001)
glenn.morgan@warwick.ac.uk
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
Calls for Papers/Proposals
The Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Conference
(Montreal, Canada May 3-6, 2001)
Paper and session submissions are due by February 1, 2001. For more
information please go on-line to http://casca2001.mcgill.ca/htm/callforpapers.html
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.
Networks and Transformations
(Manchester, United Kingdom July 2-4, 2001)
Abstracts are due by April 13, 2001. Please send them to Paul Kennedy
at p.kennedy@mmu.ac.uk
Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics
(Bath, United Kingdom July 6-8, 2001)
Abstracts are due by February 28, 2001. Please contact Joanna Zylinska
at j.zylinska@bathspa.ac.uk
Multinational Enterprises: Embedded Organisations, Transnational
Federations or Global Learning Communities?
(Coventry, United Kingdom, September 6-8, 2001)
Abstracts are due by March 1, 2001. Please contact glenn.morgan@warwick.ac.uk
The End of the Nation State? A Challenge for Europe's Regions
(Dundee, United Kingdom 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 January 31, 2001 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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