Canada

Bill C-11, The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act became law in Canada 1 November 2001. The Act and accompanying documentation can be found on-line at http://www.cic.gc.ca

Research based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) continues to explore areas of interest to Metropolis. Papers to date have included:

Morton Beiser, Feng Hou, Violet Kaspar and Samuel Noh Changes in Poverty Status and Developmental Behaviours: A Comparison of Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Children in Canada

All papers can be found on-line at http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/nlscy-elnej A newsletter is also published. To be added to the mailing list please contact research@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca

 

 

Statistics Canada has recently published "School Performance of the Children of Immigrants in Canada, 1994-1998" it can be found on their website at http://www.statcan.ca

 

The report from the Fifth Metropolis Conversation is now available. The conversation "Economic and Social Performance Outcomes of Recent Immigrants: How Can we Improve Them?" The report is available on the Metropolis website or for more information, please contact Katherine Pestieau at katherine.pestieau@metropolis.net

 

 

A four volume study on homelessness, sponsored by the Government of British Columbia is now available on-line at http://www.mhr.gov.bc.ca/housing/homeless_index.htm

 

 

UNESCO-MOST

The on-line journal of UNESCO-MOST, Journal on Multicultural Societies now has three issues on religion in multicultural societies and one on language rights posted at http://www.unesco.org/most/jmshome.htm

 

Papers include:

Eduardo Javier Ruiz Vieytez The Protection of Linguistic Minorities: A Historical Approach

Fernand de Varennes Language Rights as an Integral Part of Human Rights

Elda Moreno La Charte Européenne des Langues Régionales ou Minoritaires: un instrument juridique au service du patrimoine linguistique européen

Dónall Ó Riagáin The European Union and Lesser Used Languages

Sue Wright Language and Power: Background to the Debate on Linguistic Rights

Alexandre Agadjanian Pluralisme religieux et identité nationale en Russie

Françoise Daucé L'institution militaire face à la pluralité religieuse dans l’Etat russe

Vladimir Borisovitch Iachine Le pluralisme religieux dans la Russie actuelle: La variante d'Omsk

Mikhaïl Sivertsev Note sur les relations entre religion et système éducatif en Russie

S. N. Eisenstadt The Resurgence of Religious Movements in Processes of Globalisation -Beyond End of History or Clash of Civilisations

Greg Smith Global Systems and Religious Diversity in the Inner City - Migrants in the East End of London

Inger Furseth Religious Diversity in Prisons and in the Military - the Rights of Muslim Immigrants in Norwegian State Institutions

James A. Beckford The Management of Religious Diversity in England and Wales with Special Reference to Prison Chaplaincy

Grace Davie Religious Representation in a Revised House of Lords

Roberto Motta Sociologists managing religion: the formation of Afro-Brazilian theology

James Spickard Human Rights, Religious Conflict, and Globalisation. Ultimate Values in a New World Order

Ole Riis Modes of Religious Pluralism under Conditions of Globalisation

United Kingdom

The Home Office is presently engaged in two important consultations. The first concerns the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 and the second, how to implement the European Community Article 13 Race and Employment Directives. Both consultations documents can be found on-line at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk

 

The Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate has a large website which contains many commissioned research studies. Papers of interest to Metropolis include:

 

 

Anna Clancy, Mike Hough, Rebecca Aust and Chris Kershaw Crime, Policing and Justice: The Experience of Ethnic Minorities from the 2000 British Crime Survey

Rae Sibbit The Perpetrators of Racial Harassment and Racial Violence

Trevor Jones and Tim Newburn Widening Access: Improving Police Relations with Hard to Reach Groups

Marian Fitzgerald and Rae Sibbittt Ethnic Monitoring in Police Forces: A Beginning

Robin Elliott and Jonathan Nicholls It’s Good to Talk: Lessons in Public Consultation and Feedback

David Miers, Mike Maguire, Shelagh Goldie, Karen Sharpe, Chris Hale, Ann Netten, Steve Uglow, Katherine Doolin, Angela Hallam, Jill Enterkin and Tim Newburn An Exploratory Evaluation of Restorative Justice Schemes

David Miers An International Review of Restorative Justice

Alice Sampson and Coretta Phillips Multiple Victimisation: Racial Attacks on an East London Estate

Alice Sampson and Coretta Phillips Reducing Repeat Racal Victimisation on an East London Estate

Jenny Carey-Wood Meeting Refugees’ Needs in Britain: The Role of Refugee-Specific Initiatives

Tony E. Marshall Restorative Justice: An Overview

These papers and more can be found on-line at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk

 

 

United States

The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship is focused on enhancing the quality and breadth of basic and applied research pertaining to issues of migration, ethnicity and citizenship in the United States and abroad. The Centre has recently partnered with Metropolis to develop a comparative study of Toronto and New York. More information on this project can be obtained from Howard Duncan at howard.duncan@metropolis.net

The Center has a range of web based resources of interest to Metropolis. They include working papers and e-mail list serves on a range of topics.

The papers are divided into five series:

Migration Policy in Global Perspective

Immigrant New York

Occasional Papers

Critical Perspectives on Xenophobia

Negotiating Difference

Six listserves have been established:

Immigrant Cities: Contrasts and Similarities (CITYMIG)

Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory, Causes, Impact (ETHNAT)

Europe: Immigration, Incorporation and Citizenship (EUROMIG)

Global Migration: Theory, Causes, Impact (GLOBALMIG)

Refugees: Causes, Policies, Solutions (REFUGEE)

U.S. and Canada: Immigration, Incorporation and Citizenship (USCAMIG).

 

To access papers, or to join the listerves, please visit the centre’s website at http://www.newschool.edu/icmec

The Sixth International Metropolis Conference took place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 26-30 November 2001. It attracted 768 governmental, non-governmental and university based delegates from 44 countries. The plenary presentations and the summaries of the 61 workshops will be made available on-line as they are submitted. For more information please check the web at http://www.international.metropolis.net

The Metropolis Project and the Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network will co-organize a migration seminar in Wollongong, Australia on February 28 and March 1. The session, which will involve representatives from both networks, will feature discussions on Immigrant Settlement Patterns: Is Urban Concentration Irreversible; Skilled Migration Movements: the New Locus of International Competition; Migration and Future Population Trends: Policy Responses; and Pressing Issues in Migration Policy: The Promise of International Collaboration. Immediately before the seminar will be a meeting of the Metropolis International Steering Committee. For more information, contact Howard Duncan at howard.duncan@metropolis.net

Kristine Dösen and Irene Molina have edited a volume based on their workshop at the Fourth International Metropolis Conference held in Washington D.C. Entitled, "Divided Cities: Best Practices for the Social Inclusion of Ethnic Minorities in Local Communities" it contains twelve valuable papers. For more information please contact lars-goran.karlsson@soc.umu.se

The Canadian Policy Research Network publishes a working paper series on a range of diversity related topics. The most recent paper entitled, "The Canadian Diversity Model: A Repertoire in Search of a Framework" is now available on-line at http://www.cprn.org

The Inter-American Dialogue is a U.S. center for policy analysis, communication, and exchange on Western Hemisphere affairs. The Dialogue and its 100 members from throughout the Americas have helped shape the agenda of issues and choices in hemispheric relations. Recent publications of interest to Metropolis which are available on-line at http://www.iadialog.org include:

In the fall of 1999, LGI Managing Multiethnic Communities Project and the Centre for European Migration and Ethnic Studies (CEMES) partnered to update and maintain the database of case studies on innovative practices in the field of community relations in multiethnic environments and local initiatives for conflict resolution. The result is a living database available on-line at http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/csdb The project continues to call for written case-files describing and analyzing such innovative practices. Authors of successful submissions receive 100$US for each case file that satisfies the requirements of the database. For more info either visit the website or contact Andrea Krizsan at andrea@cemes.org

A special issue on "Gender and International Migration: Focus on Greece" is being prepared by Evangelia Tastsoglou and Laura Alipranti-Maratou. Please contact them at evangelia.tastsoglou@stmarys.ca or lalipranti@ekke.gr Submissions are due by 1 March 2002.