Dispatches from Metropolis International
Vol 2. No. 3
July 15, 2001

Partner Update
Metropolis Events
Web News
Products
Related Initiatives
Related Events
Calls for Papers/Proposals
Accolades

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).

Partner Update

Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network

In their meeting of June 1995, the MOST Scientific Steering Committee approved a project proposal for an
Asia Pacific Migration Research Network. The central focus of this project is the long-term role of migration
and increased ethno-cultural diversity as major factors in the social transformation of the societies of the Asia-Pacific Region.

The aim is to build an international research network which will carry out interdisciplinary research on
social and political aspects of international migration and growing ethno-cultural diversity in the region.

At present the APMRN and Metropolis are exploring linkages with one another. For more information on
the APMRN please consult their website at: http://www.uow.edu.au/research/groups/capstrans/apmrn

Argentina

The third meeting of the National Metropolis Project of Argentina will take place in Buenos Aires on
September 27 and 28. Led by Padre Mario Santillo, the meeting will feature presentations on a wide
range of immigration and integration issues by representatives of the Argentine national government,
the government and political officials of Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities, the
International Organization for Migration, numerous non-governmental organizations,
the Archbishopric of Buenos Aires, prominent researchers from Argentine universities,
and guests from Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the
Metropolis Centres of Excellence in Canada. For more information please contact
Howard.Duncan@9522apx.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca

Canada

New Publications from Citizenship and Immigration Canada include:

Recent Immigrants in the Halifax Metropolitan Area

Facts and Figures 1999 : Statistical Overview of the Temporary Resident and Refugee Claimant Population

Both reports are available on-line at http://www.cic.gc.ca, or for paper copies or for further information,
please contact Claude Langlois at claude.langlois@8754bss.cina.cic.x400.gc.ca

Metropolis Events

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 Nathalie Ethier at nathalie.ethier@cic.gc.ca

Sixth International Metropolis Conference

The Sixth International Metropolis Conference will take place in Rotterdam from November 26-30. The conference,
in one of the world's busiest and most cosmopolitan port cities, will feature high level plenary speakers and
90 workshops on a wide range of specific issues. Information concerning registration, the program, accommodation,
and so on is available on the Metropolis website (http://www.international.metropolis.net). Descriptions of the
workshops with contact information for the hosts is also on-line.

Croatia

The Croatian Centre for Strategic Studies will host a Metropolis conference in the Spring of 2002 on the subject
of diaspora considered from two points of view, that of the homeland and of the countries of destination.
The issues will include economic, social, and political activities of diasporas and the policy interests that follow.

Seventh International Metropolis Conference

The Seventh International Metropolis Conference will take place in Oslo in early September, 2002.
The exact dates will be announced soon. More information about this event will be available at the
time of the Rotterdam conference. It will also be posted on-line at the same time.

Web News

The international website for Metropolis had 54,077 visits and 105,289 hits in the first six months of this year.
We expect traffic to increase as the Sixth International Metropolis Conference approaches.
Overall the network of Metropolis websites has had 4,038,285 hits thus far in 2001: a 210% increase over traffic at this time last year.

Products

Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI)

The fourth volume of JIMI has been published. Articles include:

Diane Dagenais and Marianne Jacquet
Valorisation du multilinguisme et de l’education bilingue dans des familles immigrantes

Joanne Kit-Chun Lam Shortage of Highly Skilled Workers in Hong Kong and Policy Responses

      
Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson  
Closing the Wage Gap: Economic Assimilation of Canadian Immigrants Reconsidered

      
      
Pedro Telhado Pereira and Lara Patricio Tavares  
Is Schooling of Migrants’ Children More Like That of Their Parents, Their Cousins, or Thir Neighbours?

      
      
Alek Epstein and Nina Kheimets 
Immigrant Intelligentsia and its Second Generation: Cultural Segregationas a Road to Social Integration?

Bilkis Vissandjée and Sophie Dupéré Culture, migration et instrument des mesure: défis incontournables

      
Jan Niessen The Starting Line and the Promotion of EU Anti-Discrimination Legislation: The Role of Policy Oriented Research

Information on JIMI can be found at http://www.jimi.metropolis.net JIMI is unique in its inclusion of research papers and
policy papers from government and the NGO sector. Subscriptions are very reasonable and we encourage you to subscribe today.

New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence

Dominique M. Gross and Nicolas Schmitt

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? The Role of Cultural Clustering in Attracting New Immigrants

Diane Coulombe and William L. Roberts

The French-as-a-second-language Learning Experience of Anglophone and Allophone University Students

Galina Didukh Health and Personal Care Consumption Patterns of Foreign-born and Canadian-born Consumers: 1984-1996

Carl Mosk Asian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest: Canadian and American Experiences Compared

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

New Working Papers from the Transnational Communities Programme at Oxford

Oliver Kramsch The Pars-site of Governance: Transborder Regionalism in the Euregios

Paloma Gay y Blasco Gitano Evangelism; the Emergence of a Politico-religious Diaspora

      

      

      
 Alejandro Portes Transnational 
    Entrepreneurs: Emergence and Determinants of Alternative form of Immigrant Adaptation

      
      
 

      

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

      
Recent Publications by Metropolis 
    Network Members

      
Jan Rath, Rinus Penninx, 
    Kees Groenendijk and Astrid Meyer Religion in the Netherlands, Belgium and 
    the United Kingdom. Brill Academic Publishers 2001.

      
Volume 35 of Cahiers 
    de recherche sociologique recently released a special issue on evaluation <<L’Evaluation sociale: un enjeu politique.>>

      

      
Related Initiatives 

      
      
Global Review of Ethnopolitics

      
This is a new on-line peer-reviewed 
    journal edited by Stefan Wolff (University of Bath), Karl Cordell (University
         of Plymouth), and Maya Chadda (William Paterson University). Its major
        focus  will be the analysis, management, settlement,

        and prevention of
        ethnic conflicts,  on minority rights, group identity, 

    the intersection of identity group formations 
    and politics, and on minority and majority nationalisms . It will be launched 
    in September 2001. For more information please contact Stefan Wolff at s.wolff@bath.ac.uk

      
The Mumford Centre

      
Established in 1988 to carry 
    out urban research both comparative and historical cope, the Center honors
        the  tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship By romoting broad-based
        collaboration  among urban scholars

        from a variety of and geographic
        settings, the Center's  mission is to further Mumford's ideal of nvolvement
        with global vision.

        To this  end, Center projects and activities range
        from nternational urban conferences  (July 1999 in Shanghai), to local
        planning initiatives, to national endeavors  examining urban change over
        time. 

      
The goal of their website 
    is to provide an initial analysis of how these processes have continued to
        develop  into the 21st century. Using data recently released by the U.S.
        Census Bureau,  they provide users

        with information about racial and
        ethnic change in the United  States over the past decade. You can read
        about national trends

        in racial composition  uburbanization, and segregation
        for the nation as a whole. You can also view  metropolitan area data
        for specific places. For people who wish to obtain racial/ethnic  composition
        or segregation

        data in a spreadsheet, you can also download the  data
        directly. http://www.albany.edu/mumford/census

      
New Rural Economy Project

      
The New Rural Economy Project 
    (NRE) is a five-year research and education program underway in rural Canada.
         It is a collaborative undertaking bringing together rural people, researchers,
         policy-analysts, the business community,

        and government agencies at
       all levels  to identify and address vital rural issues.

        It is conducted
        at the national  level with historical and statistical data analysis,
        and at the local level  with case studies involving community and household
        surveys. Please consult  the website at http://nre.concordia.ca

      
Character Education Resources 
      

      
Character Education Resources 
    is a non-profit charitable organization that promotes Character and Citizenship 
    Education in New

      
 Hampshire and beyond. We 
    organize, produce, promote and fund Character and Citizenship Education training 
    conferences for

      
 educators, school administrators 
    and others interested in Character Education. We also provide for the sale of 
    Character Education

      
 books through this site 
    and we provide numerous links to other Character Education sites.

      
More information can be 
    found at: http://fcs.tamu.edu/tbc/charedlinks.htm

      

      

      
World City Network Formation: Global 
    Connections Audit and Analysis

      

      
Research grant by the ESRC:

      
      
Project 19: "World City Network Formation: 
    Global Connections Audit and Analysis"

      
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/projects/projec19.html

      
Building upon existing project data 
    for 2000, data on corporate service office networks will be collected annually 
    from 2001 to 2004 in order to analyse changes in the world city network formation 
    over a five year period (i.e. 2000 to 2004)

      

      
Globalization and World 
    Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC)

      
      
GaWC was initially set up 
    as a vehicle for organising world city research at Loughborough University, 
    United Kingdom. It is in the process of developing and expanding teaching resource 
    and a site of interest for those working in advanced city services in both the 
    private and public sectors.

      
      
New research bulletins include:

      

      
Peter Taylor, Gilda Catalano 
    and David Walker Measurement of the World City Network http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb43.html

      
      

      

      
Peter Taylor Recasting 
    World-Systems Analysis: City Networks for Nation-States http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb44.html

      
      

      

      
Bruce Stanley 'Going 
    global' and wannabee world cities: (re)conceptualizing regionalism in the Middle 
    East http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb45.html

      
 Saskia Sassen Locating 
    cities on global networks http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb46.html

      
      
New teaching materials:

      

      
Bruce Stanley, Teaching 
    module "Global Cities and International Urbanization"

      
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/couro2.html

      
 

      

      
"’And We Still Ain’t 
    Satisfied,’ Gender Inequality in Canada: A Status Report for 2001"

      
      
A
            joint publication of the  National Action Committee on the Status
            of Women and the Centre for Social Justice  is now available.

        For
        more information please contact Kari Klassen, Communications  Officer,
        Centre for Social Justice + 1 (416) 927-0777 x 222

      

      

      
Related Events

      
      
Family in the Age of Multiculturalism

    Copenhagen, Denmark, October 4-6, 2001

    lea@sfi.dk

      
Ethnic Conflicts: Prveention, 
    Intervention and Solution Strategies

    (Stadtschlaining, Austria October 4-7, 2001)

    http://www.emz-berlin.de 

      
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

      
From Challenge to Action: 
    Annual Conference of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation

    (Muenster, Canada October 24-27, 2001)

    Theme: Building Knowledge partnerhships with citizens, academics and scientists

    Http://www.crrf.ca

      
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 Catheirne'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

      
Bringing Communities Together

    (Ottawa, Canada December 6-7, 2001)

    http://www.policyresearch.gc.ca

      
Sporting Cultures: Hispanic 
    and European Perspectives

    (Sheffield, United Kingdom January 2002)

    http://www.shef.ac.uk/hispanic/index.html 
      

      
Immigration and America’s 
    Changing Ethnic Landscapes

    (Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. April 12-14, 2002)

    pandit@uga.edu

      
Congress of Social Sciences 
    and Humanities

    (Toronto, Canada May 25-June 1st, 2002)

    http://www.hssfc.ca

      
Association for Canadian 
    Studies

    (Montreal, Canada June 8-10, 2002)

    http://www.acs-aec.ca

      

      
Calls for Papers/Proposals

      
      
 

      
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

      
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

      
Human Rights Review

      
Human Rights Review
          welcomes  topics not traditionally covered in the existing literature
          on human rights,  as well as attending

        to practical and policy dimensions
        of human rights issues.  Please send submissions to hrr@wellesley.edu 
    prior to November 1, 2001.

      

      
XVth ISA World Congress 
    of Sociology

      
      
(Brisbane, Australia July 
    7-13, 2002)

      
Papers
            for sessions on Ethnic 
    Business and Biography and Immigration, Business and Society are
     invited.

     Please contact Jan Rath (rath@pscw.uva.nl)
      or Ursula Apitzsch  (apitzsch@soz.uni-frankfurt.de)
       by November 1, 2001.

            Accolades
      
Gerry
            Van Kessel, formerly the Director  General of the Refugees Branch
            for Citizenship and Immigration Canada,

        has accepted  a new post as
        the Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Consultations
         on Asylum,

        Refugee and Migration Policies in Geneva. We wish him
       the best of  luck and look forward to working with him in his new
       capacity.

      
Bruce
            Harris, Executive Director  of Casa Alianza has been decorated by
            Queen Elizabeth the second with the

        Order  of the British Empire (OBE)
        for his work with children in Latin America – Congratulations!

      
Rod
            Beaujot has won the 2001 John  Porter award of the Canadian Sociology
            and Anthropology Association for his

        book Earning and Caring in
            Canadian Families. Peterborough: Broadview 
    Press, Ltd., 2000.