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Dispatches from Metropolis International
November 15, 2001
(Vol 2. No. 5)
Partner Update
Metropolis Events
Products
Recent Publications
Learning Materials
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
+01 613 957-5941 john.biles@metropolis.net
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Partner Update
Argentina
The third meeting of the National Metropolis Project of Argentina
took place in Buenos Aires on September 27 and 28. Led by Padre Mario
Santillo, the meeting featured presentations on a wide range of immigration
and integration issues by representatives of the Argentinian national
government, the government and political officials of Buenos Aires
and other Argentinian cities, the International Organization for Migration,
numerous non-governmental organizations, the Archbishopric of Buenos
Aires, prominent researchers from Argentinian universities, and guests
from Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the Metropolis Centres
of Excellence in Canada. For more information please contact Howard
Duncan at howard.duncan@metropolis.net
Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN)
The APMRN website has changed to http://www.capstrans.edu.au/apmrn/
please update your bookmarks accordingly.
The Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network, through the Australia
Migration Research Network, will host the Spring 2002 meeting of the
Metropolis International Steering Committee in Wollongong. At that
time, they will be organizing a joint Metropolis-APMRN seminar on
skilled migration, demographic change, urban concentration and international
policy-research collaboration. For more information contact Howard
Duncan at howard.duncan@metropolis.net
Australia
The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs has recently
lauched two major reports on immigration:
"Labour Force Experience of New Migrants" and "Skilled
Labour: Gains and Losses." Copies of the reports can be obtained
on-line at http://www.immi.gov.au/research/publications
Canada
A three volume report entitled, "Lessons Learned: An Evaluation
of Northern Alberta's Experience with Kosovar Refugees" has been
completed and posted on the Prairie Metropolis Centre of Excellence's
website at http://www.pcerii.metropolis.net
South Africa
The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) wishes to announce the
publication of Migration Policy Series No. 22 on "Immigration,
Xenophobia and Human Rights in South Africa" in partnership with
the Roll Back Xenophobia Campaign of the South African Human Rights
Commission. The paper provides a comprehensive and reliable guide
to South African attitudes towards migrants, immigrants and refugees
and is available online at http://www.queensu.ca/samp/Publications.html
United Kingdom
The Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University
of Bristol has concluded its first full year of operation. This year
has seen the forging of significant links with Metropolis. Tariq Modood
participated in the Fourth and Fifth International Metropolis Conferences
and participated as a consultant on a Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace project. At the same time, Paul Spoonley from Massey University
in New Zealand has visited Bristol twice to develop collaborative
projects.
On-going projects include a pair of conferences on Islamaphobia planned
for Bristol and Sydney by Tariq Modood and Geoff Levey at the University
of New South Wales. For more information, please contact Center Director
Tariq Modood at
ethnicity-centre@bris.ac.uk
United Nations
The Secretary General recently tabled a report on "International
migration and development, including the question of the convening
of a United Nations conference on international migration and development
to address migration issues" in the General Assembly of the United
Nations. It lists Metropolis as one of six organizations (along with
the International Organization for Migration, the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development, the Council of Europe, the European
Union, and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development)
outside of the United Nations system which addresses these issues
in a substantive manner. The report draws several conclusions of note
to Metropolis:
International migration and development could be an issue of central
concern in the work of the United Nations system.
The United Nations, in collaboration with other relevant organizations
and agencies, may wish to intensify its efforts to support the multilateral
forums in which governments, international organizations and the civil
society participate directly.
Documenting and disseminating information on successful migration
management programmes based on recent experience may also contribute
to a better understanding of the interrelationships between migration
and development.
United States
The International Migration Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace has evolved into the Migration Policy Institute
(MPI). It is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think-tank dedicated
to the study of the movement of people workdwide. For more information
please contact Dpapademetriou@migrationpolicy.org
Metropolis Events
The Fifth Canadian National Metropolis Conference
The Fifth National Conference was held in Ottawa October 16-20. Over
600 researchers, policymakers and NGOs participated in the event.
It was an opportunity to showcase research and best practices developed
over the past six years - most of which will be available on the Canadian
national Metropolis website. In addition, participants assisted in
the design of twelve policy research themes which will structure a
large portion of the work of the Canadian Centres of Excellence for
the coming six years. The large contingents from municipalities and
the graduate student cadre ensured that the future focus of the project
will include municipal concerns and will seek to create more opportunities
for graduate students.
Sixth International Metropolis Conference
The Sixth International Metropolis Conference will take place in Rotterdam
from November 26-30. Over 600 policymakers, researchers and non-governmental
organizations from around the world have registered. The programme
can be found on-line at www.international.metropolis.net
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. For
more information please contact Howard Duncan at howard.duncan@metropolis.net
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.
Products
Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI)
Volume 2 Number 1 has now been published. Articles include:
Maja Korac Cross-ethnic Networks, Self-Reception System, and Functional
Integration of Refugees from the Former Yugoslavia in Rome
Hakan Gurses, Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger, Karl Reiser, Sabine Strasser
and Dilek Cinar The Necessary Impossibility: Dynamics of Identity
Among Young People of Different Backgrounds in Vienna
Bilkis Vissandjée, Morton Weinfeld, Sophie Dupéré
and Shelly Abdool
Sex, Gender, Ethnicity and Access to Health Care Services: Research
and Policy Challenges for Immigrant Women in Canada
Peter Li The Racial Subtext in Canada's Immigration Discourse
Christopher Bagley, Floyd Bolitho and Lorne Bertrand
Ethnicities and Social Adjustment in Canadian Adolescents
Wsevolod W. Isajiw
Toward a New Modus Vivendi Between Academic Research and Practical
Social Policy
Information on JIMI can be found at http://www.jimi.metropolis.net
New Working Papers from the Vancouver Metropolis Centre of Excellence
Margaret Walton-Roberts
Returning, Remitting, Reshaping: Non-Resident Indians and the Transformation
of Society and Space in Punjab, India
Parin Dossa
Narrative Mediation of Conventional and New Paradigms of "Mental
Health": Reading the Stories of Immigrant Iranian Women
Harald Bauder, Johanna Waters, and Sin Yih Teo
Impacts of Immigration on British Columbia: Population, Labour Markets,
Housing Markets and International Linkages
Lin Wang
Household Operations and Furnishings Consumption Patterns of Canadian
and Foreign-born Consumers: 1984-1996
Laura Beattie and David Ley,
The German Immigrant Church in Vancouver: Service Provision and Identity
Formation
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
All papers can be found on-line at
http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk
Steven Vertovec, Transnational Challenges to the 'New' Multiculturalism
Alisdair Rogers, Traces Volume 3 - hard copy of the programme's on-line
news digest
Ralph Grillo, Transnational Migration And Multiculturalism In Europe
Marina Oussatcheva, Institutions in Diaspora: The Case of Armenian
Community in Russia
Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, How national citizenship shapes transnationalism:
A comparative analysis of migrant claims-making in Germany, Great
Britain and the Netherlands
Bruno Riccio, Disaggregating the transnational community Senegalese
migrants on the coast of Emilia-Romagna
Karen Fog Olwig, Researching Global Socio-Cultual Fields: Views from
an Extended Field Site
Peggy Levitt, Between God, Ethnicity, And Country: An Approach To
The Study Of Transnational Religion
Roger Ballard, The Impact of Kinship on the Economic Dynamics of
Transnational Networks: Reflections on some South Asian Developments
Bridget Anderson, Multiple Transnationalism: Space, the State and
Human Relations
Steven Vertovec, Transnational Social Formations: Towards Conceptual
Cross-fertilization
Paul Kennedy & Victor, Roudometof Communities Across Borders Under
Globalising Conditions: New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures.
Peter van der Veer, Transnational Religion
Antoine Pécoud, 'Weltoffenheit schafft Jobs':Turkish Entrepreneurship
and Multiculturalism in Berlin
Patricia R. Pessar and Sarah J. Mahler, Gender and Transnational Migration
Khachig Tölölyan, Elites and Institutions in the Armenian
Transnation
Eva K. Østergaard-Nielsen, The Politics of Migrants' Transnational
Political Practices
Robert C. Smith, Migrant Membership as an Instituted Process: Comparative
Insights from the Mexican and Italian Cases
Recent Publications by Metropolis Network Members
A special issue of Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs
has been issued on the subject of new research and theory on Immigrant
transnationalism. The issue is guest edited by Alejandro Portes. More
information on the journal can be found at: http://www.globalnetworksjournal.com
George J. Borjas Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American
Economy. Princeton University Press.
Henry Chow. "The Determinants of Academic Performance: Hong
Kong Immigrant Students in Canadian Schools." Canadian Ethnic
Studies XXXII, No. 3, 2000: 105-111.
Ransford K. Danso and Miriam R. Grant "Access Housing as an
Adaptive Strategy for Immigrant Groups: Africans in Calgary"
Canadian Ethnic Studies XXXII, No. 3, 2000: 19-44.
Julia Krane, Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez and Kimberley Ducey "Violence
Against Women and Ethnoracial Minority Women: Examining Assumptions
about Ethnicity and 'Race'." Canadian Ethnic Studies XXXII, No.
3, 2000: 1-19.
Ruben Rumbaut et. Al. Eds. "Transformations: Immigration and
Immigration Research in the United States," American Behavioral
Scientist, 42(9): 1258-1474. 1999.
Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant
Second Generation.
Jan Rath. Immigrant Businesses: The Economic, Political and Social
Environment. New York: Macmillan Press Ltd., 2000.
Tariq Modood (forthcoming, 2001) The Place of Muslims in British
Secular Multiculturalism' in N AlSayyad and M Castells (eds) Muslim
Europe, New York: Lexington Books.
Tariq Modood and S. May (forthcoming, 2001) 'Multiculturalism and
Education in Britain: An Internally Contested Debate', International
Journal of Education, 35 (4).
R. Barot (forthcoming 2001) 'Virtue and Ethics among the Hindus'
, in Kieran Flanagan and Peter Jupp's (eds) Virtue, Ethics and Sociology:
Issues of Modernity and Religion, Basingstoke Macmillan.
R. Barot (forthcoming 2001) ' Religion, Migration and Wealth Creration
in the Swaminarayan Movement in Debroah Bryceson and Ulla Vuorela
(eds.) Testing Boundaries: Transnational Families and Migrant Social
Networks, Leiden: African Studies Centre.
May, Stephen (forthcoming, 2001) Language and Minority Rights. London:
Longman.
May, Stephen (forthcoming, 2000), Nationalism, Language and Minority
Rights. Special Issue. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
21, 5. Guest editor and introduction.
J. Squires (forthcoming, 2001), 'A voice in the wilderness?' in P
Kelly and D Held (eds) Culture and Equality Reconsidered, Polity Press:
Cambridge.
Rohit Barot & John Bird (2001 forthcoming) 'Racilization: The
Genealogy and Critique of a Concept' Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Learning Materials
Two sets of classroom ready materials designed to increase understanding
of the role immigration has played in Canadian history and society
have been produced by Classroom Connections
The materials, named Strangers Becoming Us have been developed by
the Metropolis Centre of Excellence based in Toronto. One package
targets grades 4-8 and the other targets grades 10-11. More information
can be obtained from http://www.classroom-connections.com
or from the Toronto Centre's website at http://www.ceris.metropolis.net
Related Initiatives
Centre for Comparative Immigration Studies
Recent publications include:
Thomas K. Bauer, Magnus Lofstrom and Klaus F. Zimmermann
Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants, and Natives' Sentiments
Towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD Countries
Alejandra Castañeda and Emiko Saldívar Ciudadanías
Excluidas: Indígenas y Migrantes en México
Gunther Dietz Frontier Hybridization or Culture Clash?: Trans-national
Migrant Communities and Sub-national Identity Politics in Andalusia,
Spain
Lynn Stephen Globalization, the State, and the Creation of Flexible
Indigenous Workers: Mixtec Farmworkers in Oregon
Philip Martin Farm Labor in California: Then and Now
Valerie F. Hunt When Institutional Boundaries Meet New Political
Ideas: Courts, Congress and U.S. Immigration Policy Reform
May Relaño Pastor Mexican Immigrant Women's Narratives of Language
Experience: Defediéndose in Southern California
Idean Salehyan Safe Haven: International Norms, Strategic Interests,
and U.S. Refugee Policy
Alan Kessler Immigration, Economic Insecurity, and the "Ambivalent"
American Public
E. Anne Beal Global Products, Embedded Contexts: The Interpretation
of Consumption Practices Among Palestinian Migrants in Amman
Centre for Economic Policy Research
The Centre for Economic Policy Research at the Australian National
University posts its discussion papers on-line at http://cepr.anu.edu.au/ceprcontact.htm
Papers of interest include:
Deborah Cobb-Clark Do Selection Criteria Make a Difference? Viusa
Category and the Labour Force Status of Australian Immigrants
Deborah Cobb-Clark, Marie D. Connolly, and Christophere Worswick
The Job Search and Education Investments of Immigrant Families
Deborah Cobb-Clark and Thomas F. Crossley Gender, Comparative Advantage
and Labour Market Activities in Immigrant Families
Deborah Cobb-Clark and Bruce J. Chapman The Changing Pattern of Immigrants'
Labour Market Experiences
Educational Resources Information Centre Clearinghouse on Urban
Education
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education (ERIC/CUE) is one of sixteen
specialized clearinghouses in the ERIC (Education Resources Information
Center) system, a national information service and database funded
by the National Library of Education, Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, at the U.S. Department of Education.
ERIC/CUE's areas of concern include:
¨ the education of urban students
¨ the education of African Americans, Hispanic Americans (excluding
Mexican Americans, who are in the domain of another ERIC Clearinghouse),
Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other minority ethnic and
racial groups
¨ racial, ethnic, and sex equity issues
¨ multicultural education
¨ curriculum and instruction for urban students
¨ urban classroom and school organization
¨ the relationship of urban schools to their communities
¨ ways that public policy can affect urban education
¨ the social and economic conditions of urban life
Information can be obtained on-line at
http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/
Related Events
35th EUROFOR Conference
(Brussels, Belgium December 5-9, 2001)
Theme: Immigration to the European Union Countries
Info@emz-berlin.de
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
American Economic Association
(Atlanta, U.S.A. 406 January 2002)
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA
International Atlantic Economic Society
(Paris, France 12-19 March 2002)
iaes@iaes.org
Immigration and America's Changing Ethnic Landscapes
(Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. April 12-14, 2002)
pandit@uga.edu
20th Anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
(Ottawa, Canada April 17-20, 2002)
http://www.acs-aec.ca
Canadian Anthropology Association
(Winsor, Canada May 2-5, 2002)
http://www.casca.uwindsor.ca
Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities
(Toronto, Canada May 25-June 1st, 2002)
http://www.hssfc.ca
Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
(Toronto, Canada May 29 - June 1, 2002)
Theme: Boundaries
Sever@scar.utoronto.ca
Association for Canadian Studies
(Montreal, Canada June 8-10, 2002)
http://www.acs-aec.ca
Institute of Public Administration Canada
(Halifax, Canada 25-28 August 2002)
http://www.ipaciapc.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
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