Dispatches from Metropolis International

March 15, 2001
Vol 2. No. 2

In this edition:

ISC Update
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 +01 819 997-5791 (john_biles@pch.gc.ca).

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ISC Update

Partner Update

Australia
Seminar on Economic Impact of Immigration
The Research Section of the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs hosted a seminar on the "Economic Impact of Immigration" on March 1, 2001. Information and presentations can be found at http://www.immi.gov.au/research/seminar/index.

Canada
Report on Immigrants in the Toronto Economy
To obtain a copy please e-mail Anne Solomatenko at anne.solomatenko@3008rod.cion.cic.x400.gc.ca or John Tracogna at jtracogna@city.north-york.on.ca

United Kingdom
Migration: An Economic and Social Analysis
The Home Office has released a report entitled, "Migration: An Economic and Social Analysis." The report finds that Britain's foreign-born population paid 2.6 billion pounds or ten percent more in government revenues than they received in government-funded benefits and also enhanced art, culture and fashion. The report can be found on-line at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/occ67-migration.pdf

United States
The U.S.-Mexico Migration Panel
A high-level panel Convened by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, International Migration Policy Program and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Faculty of International Relations has been working together over the past six months to analyze and make recommendations regarding U.S. Mexico relations with respect to migration and border issues. The purpose of this effort is to make the case for the gradual recasting of the U.S.-Mexico migration relationship as a true partnership and to offer the new presidents and their governments a menu of attainable ideas for doing so. For more information on this panel please see http://www.ceip.org/files/publications/sumofrec.asp?p=6&from=pubdate

Metropolis Events

Building Knowledge Networks (March 15-16, 2001)
The Metropolis Project Team at Citizenship and Immigration Canada organized a two day seminar in Halifax, Canada to evaluate the potential for a fifth Metropolis centre of excellence to be established in Canada for the 2002-2008 phase of the project. Over one hundred policymakers from three levels of government, researchers and non-governmental organizations attended the session. The consensus emerging was that there was significant interest in creating a centre. A proposal will be developed by a coalition of researchers, policymakers and NGOs over the coming months which will design a centre that encompasses all four provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland) and both official languages (English and French). More information on this event can be found on the Atlantic web niche created on the Canadian Metropolis site at http://www.atlantic.metropolis.net

Bridging the Information Gaps: A Conference of Research on Asylum and Immigration in the UK
The Home Office of the United Kingdom hosted "Bridging the Information Gaps: A Conference of Research on Asylum and Immigration in the UK." This took place on March 21 at Whitehall. Among the presenters were Barbara Roche (Minister of State Home Office), Stephen Boys-Smith (Home Office), Steve Vertovec (Metropolis Steering Committee member and Director of the Transnational Communities Programme at Oxford University), Meyer Burstein (Metropolis Co-chair) and Howard Duncan (Deputy Head of the Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada). The organizers of the event were Peter Ward and Heaven Crawley, both of the Home Office's Immigration Research and Statistics Service. For more information please contact Howard Duncan at howard.duncan@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca

Skilled Worker Migration: Economic Impacts of Migration and Policy Considerations
On March 22, the Home Office together with the Metropolis Project, the Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Transnational Communities Programme held a "Seminar on Skilled Worker Migration: Economic Impacts of Migration and Policy Considerations". Among the participants were Elizabeth Ruddick and Mark Davidson (Citizenship and Immigration Canada), Yvan Turcotte (Ministère des relations avec les citoyens et de l'immigration, Québec), Peter Li (University of Saskatchewan), Chris Worswick (Carleton University), Arthur Sweetman (Queen's University), Demetrios Papademetriou (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), James Smith (RAND Corporation), and Peter Watters (Australian High Commission.) The event was co-organized by Meyer Burstein and Sarah Spencer (IPPR). For more information please contact Howard Duncan at howard.duncan@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca

Interconference Event: Urban Futures
(May 10-12, 2001)
Using the Metropolis Model of knowledge networks composed of policymakers, NGOs and researchers, Urban Futures will provide unique opportunities for stakeholders who share a vision of improving urban society through collaboration and partnership to examine urban issues and to work in an unconstrained manner towards addressing them.

Themes:
¨ Urban demographic Futures: Declining Workforces, Replacement Migration and Social Transformation in Urban Systems in the 21st Century; What are the Key Issues for Urban Policy?
¨ Urban Economic Futures: The Social and Economic Impact of International Migration on Metropolitan Areas; Strategies and Key Indicators for Sustainable Development.
¨ Urban Social Futures: Building Social, Cultural and Economic Capital; Integration and Social Inclusion in Cities with Fragmented Labour and Housing Markets; Progress through Partnership and Empowerment.
¨ Urban Policy Futures: Good Urban Governance through Trans-European Networks and Sharing Best Practices in Metropolitan Areas.
¨ Urban Practice Futures: Metropolis is bringing policy and research together.
For more information please consult www.storstad.gov.se or 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. The conference will provide space for both discussions designed to focus activities of the second phase of Metropolis (2002-2008) and to present and discuss key policy research conducted within the Metropolis network. 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. Information on this conference can be found on-line at http://www.international.metropolis.net
or from Rinus Penninx at penninx@pscw.uva.nl
Over seventy workshop proposals have been received. A list of workshops, hosts, and contacts will be available in the next Dispatches.

Web News

The Metropolis Network of Web Sites received almost 5 millions hits and 400,000 visits in 2000. The Metropolis international site (www.international.metropolis.net) got over 850,000 of these hits and close to 70,000 of the visits. For the first 3 months of 2001, the Metropolis Network of Web Sites got two times more hits than during the same period last year.
Please visit the site and send your comments to jv_metro@istar.ca

On the new Main Menu of the Canadian National Site, you will be able to access easily information about : Metropolis International Conferences and Seminars, the Ottawa Metropolis Team, the Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI), some thoughts about hot issues, and a list of internet links.

Products

New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence
Shahrokh Shahabi-Azad Immigrant Expenditure Patterns on Transportation

Johanna L. Waters The Flexible Family: Recent Immigration and 'Astronaut' Households in Vancouver, British Columbia

David Ley, Peter Murphy, Kris Olds, and Bill Randolph Immigration and Housing in Gateway Cities: The Cases of Sydney and Vancouver

Gillian Creese and Robyn Dowling Gendering Immigration: The Experience of Women in Sydney and Vancouver

David W. Edgington, Thomas Hutton, Bronwyn Hanna and Susan Thompson Urban Governance, Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Sydney and Vancouver

Kevin Dunn and Minelle Mahtani Adjusting the Colour Bars: Media Representation of Ethnic Minorities under Australian and Canadian Multiculturalisms

Ian Burnley and Dan Hiebert Emerging Patterns of Immigrant Settlement in Metropolitan Sydney and Vancouver: The Need for New Concepts and Models

Dan Hiebert and David Ley Assimilation, Cultural Pluralism and Social Exclusion Among Ethno-Cultural Groups in Vancouver

Harald Bauder The Visible Minority Category and Urban Analysis

Johanna L. Waters Migration Strategies and Transnational Families: Vancouver's Satellite Kids

Copies of these papers can be found on the Metropolis website at http://www.canada.metropolis.net

New Working Papers from the Montreal Metropolis Centre of Excellence
Damaris Rose and Brian Ray Landed Refugee Claimants' First Three Years in Québec: Their Housing Experiences

Copies of this papers can be found on the Metropolis website at http://www.canada.metropolis.net

New Working Papers from the Transnational Communities Programme at Oxford
Steven Vertovec Rethinking Remittances - Plenary Lecture at 5th International Metropolis Conference, Vancouver

Steven Vertovec Religion and Diaspora: New Landscapes of Religion in the West

Karsten Paerregaard In the Footsteps of the Lord of Miracles: The Expatriation of Religious Icons in the Peruvian Diaspora

All papers can be found on-line at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk

Recent Publications by Metropolis Network Members

A special issue focusing on "Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society" has been put out by Canadian Ethnic Studies (Vol XXXII, No. 1, 2000) This issue draws upon much of the work of the Citizenship Education Research Network (CERN). It is co-edited by CERN member, Rosa Bruno-Jofre. Copies can be obtained from the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association at mhso.mail@utoronto.ca

A special issue focusing on "Immigrant Entrepreneurship" has been put out by Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Vol. 27, No. 2, April 2001). The issue draws upon much of the work conducted within the Metropolis network and is co-edited by Metropolis researchers Robert Loosterman and Jan Rath. Copies can be obtained from http://www.cemes.org

A special issue focusing on "Comparative Development in Montreal and Toronto" has been issued by the Canadian Journal of Regional Science (Vol. 22, No. 1-2, Spring-Summer 1999). The issue is guest edited by Metropolis researchers, Jacques Ledent, Larry Bourne, and Francine Dansereau. It contains work of many Metropolis researchers including Brian Ray and Damaris Rose. Copies can be obtained from assistant editor Douglas Wooworth at dwserve@nb.sympatico.ca

Netherlands' Journal of Social Sciences has issued a special issue on "Immigrants and Assimilation" (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2000). The issue is edited by Metropolis researcher Jan Rath and contains articles by many other researchers affiliated with the international Metropolis Project. Copies can be obtained from http://www.siswo.uva.nl/tijdschr/njss/absnjss.html

Related Initiatives

Academy for Migration Studies
The newly established Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID) will be hosting its inaugural conference entitled "Multicultural Citizenship and Integration of Ethnic Minorities" in August of this year. For more information, please see under "Related Events" and "Calls for Papers" of this pamphlet or check the web at http://www.sprog.auc.dk/amid.

Centre for Comparative Immigration Studies
Recent publications include:

Takeyuki Tsuda The Benefits of Being Minority: The Ethnic Status of the Japanese-Brazilians in Brazil

Abel Valenzuela, Jr. Working on the Margins: Immigrant Day Labor Characteristics and Prospects for Employment

Francisco Oda-Angel A Singular International Area: Borders and Cultures in the Societies of the Strait of Gibraltar

Takeyuki Tsuda Migration and Alienation: Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants and the Search for Homeland Abroad

Cecilia Menjivar Networks and Religious Communities Among Salvadoran Immigrants in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Washington D.C.

Casey Walsh Demobilizing the Revolution: Migration, Repatriation and Colonization in Mexico, 1911-1940

Wayne A. Cornelius Death at the Border: The Efficacy and "Unintended" Consequences of U.S. Immigration Control Policy 1993-2000

Fred A. Lazin Politics, Race and Absorption: Israeli Housing and Education Policies for Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants, 1984-1992

Rainer Winkelmann Immigration Policies and their Impact: The Case of New Zealand and Australia

Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak Towards Local Citizenship: Japanese Cities Respond to International Migration

Gordon Hanson, Raymond Robertson, and Antonio Spilimbergo Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers From Illegal Immigration?

Enrico A. Marcelli From the Barrio to the 'Burbs: Immigration and Urban Sprawl in Southern California

All papers are available on-line at http://www.ccis~ucsd.org/

Related Events

Migration Between States and Markets
(Liege Belgium May 17-19, 2001)
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa.cforp103.htm
OR m.martiniello@ulg.ac.be

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, Quebec May 3-6, 2001)
Theme: Culture, Difference and Inequality
http://casca2001.mcgill.ca/

Refugee Women Fleeing Gender-Based Persecution
(Montreal, Canada May 4-6, 2001)
http://www.web.net/~ccr/gendagen.htm

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)
t.vannaerssen@bw.kun.nl

Representing Diversity
(Ottawa, Canada May 18-19, 2000)
brooks3@uwindsor.ca

Tolerance, Respect and Human Rights
(Prague, May 21-27, 2001)
Themes: prejudice and racism; forms of discrimination; human rights and minorities, multicultural and anti-racist education.
http://www.tolerance.cz

33rd EUROFOR Conference
(Maratea (potenza) Basilicata, Italy May 24-27, 2001)
Theme: Integration of Refugees into the European Union
http://www.emz-berlin.de

Association for Canadian Studies
(Quebec City, Canada May 25-27, 2001)
General Theme: Alternatives to mainstream Canada
http://www.acs-aec.ca

The Canadian Association of Geographers 50th Annual Conference
(Montreal, Canada May 29-June 3, 2001)
http://blues.lemig.umontreal.ca/cag200/circulaires/second.html

Videoconference on Minority Health
(June 18-22, 2001)
www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2001/

Democracy, Diversity and Disability
(Winnipeg, Manitoba June 21-24, 2001)
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/

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

Multicultural Citizenship and Integration of Ethnic Minorities
(Aalborg, Denmark August 29-30, 2001)
tive@sprog.auc.dk

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, UK, September 6-8, 2001)
glenn.morgan@warwick.ac.uk

Cultural-Artistic Activity of Emigrants and its Role in Modern Culture
(Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2001)
izi@zrc-sazu.si
Rethinking Citizenship in the Canadian Federation
(Vancouver, Canada, October 11-13, 2001)
Themes: Multiculturalism, social cohesion
Resnick@unixg.ubc.ca

Labour, Migration and the Global Economy: Past, Present and Future
(Detroit, U.S.A. October 18-20, 2001)
ad5247@wayne.edu

Nationalist Myths and Pluralist Realities in Central Europe
(Edmonton, Canada October 25-27, 2001)
ccauces@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

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

Two Days of Canada 2001
(St Catherine's, Canada November 7-8, 2001)
kdyer@spartan.ac.brocku.ca

16th Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
(San Antonio, United States November 14-18, 2001)
sanantonio@acsus.org OR http://www.acsus.org

Calls for Papers/Proposals

Multicultural Citizenship and Integration of Ethnic Minorities (Denmark August 29-30, 2001)
Abstracts are due by June 1, 2001. Please send them to Tina Iversen at tive@sprog.auc.dk

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

Two Days of Canada 2001
Offers of papers are invited by 1 July 2001. Please send three (3) copies of 250-300 word proposals, accompanied by a 50-word biblio-biographical sketch as well as a 100-word (maximum) abstract to Klay Dyer at kdyer@spartan.ac.brocku.ca

Changing Japanese Identities in Multicultural Canada
(Victoria, Canada August 22-24, 2002)
Submissions in either English or Japanese should be sent by e-mail to Dr. Hiroko Noro at hnoro@uvic.ca prior to December 15, 2001.

Global Review of EthnoPolitcs
Submission of original papers (6000-8000 words), research notes (2000-4000 words) and book reviews (800-1000 words) are invited. E-mail papers with a 100-200 word abstract as attachments in MS word to Stefan Wolff at s.wolff@bath.ac.uk

The Canadian Journal of Urban Research
The Canadian Journal of Urban Research is a multidisciplinary, scholarly journal dedicated to publishing articles that address a wide range of issues relevant to the field of urban studies. Guidelines can be found on-line at http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~ius/instruct.tm