STRUCTURAL
CHANGES AT CERIS
The
recent meeting of the CERIS Management Board reviewed an important
report from a working sub-committee on structures and adopted the
major recommendations from the report. Among the recommendations were
an expanded Executive Committee which now includes Dr. Valerie Preston
(York University) and Miranda Pinto (Catholic Cross-Cultural Services
and OCASI), along with the three CERIS Directors, the Board Chair and
the Administrative Coordinator. A warm welcome and hearty thanks to
Valerie and Miranda in assuming this important role!
Other
recommendations that were adopted will be implemented over the next
several months as part of the process of Metropolis renewal. Thanks
for their contributions as members of the Structures Committee to
Wendy Kwong, Dr. Iara Lessa, Miranda Pinto, Dr. Harold Troper, and Dr.
Michael Lanphier (Chair).
NEW
LEADER ECONOMIC DOMAIN
Dr.
Lucia Lo (Geography, York University) has accepted responsibility for
leading the CERIS Economic Domain, replacing the former Economic
Domain Leader Dr. John Shields of Ryerson Polytechnic University.
Thanks to John for his important contributions as domain leader, and
congratulations to Lucia!
NEW
EDITOR CERIS WORKING PAPERS
Dr.
Michael Doucet has been appointed as the new editor for our Working
Paper Series, replacing Associate Director Dr. Kenise Murphy Kilbride
in this position. Dr. Doucet in President of the Faculty Association
and Professor of Geography at Ryerson Polytechnic University, as well
as a new member of the CERIS Management Board.
Congratulations
to Michael, and thanks to Kenise for her contributions to this
important part of our work at CERIS!
ETHNIC
DIVERSITY SURVEY
At
the recent meeting of the Metropolis National Committee during the 4th
National Metropolis Conference in Ottawa, Statistics Canada presented
the four Metropolis Centres with a copy of the Pilot Questionnaire and
background information about their new survey on Ethnic Diversity.
For
those who wish to review this document, they are being held in the
CERIS Resource Centre.
VARSITY
FEATURE ON IMMIGRATION POLICY
The
Thursday, October 18, 2001 issue of "The Varsity" student
newspaper at the University of Toronto has a feature article by
Mildren Wong on Canada's immigration policy post September 11.
Featured in the article are CERIS Director Dr. Morton Beiser as well
as CERIS affiliate and prominent immigration scholar Dr. Jeffrey
Reitz, both of the University of Toronto.
October
2001
Thank
you! CERIS Executive members for giving me the opportunity to
participate in the Metropolis conference. I have learned a great deal
about policy-making & met many
wonderful
& interesting participants. I hope to continue being involved with
both CERIS & Metropolis, in whichever capacity the future holds
for me ~ researcher, community activist or policy maker! Many thanks
to you all.
Gul
Joya Jafri, York University Graduate
SOCIOLOGICAL
REFLEXIONS
Provoked
by the contingency of life and inspired by the diversity within we
attempt to reflect what we have experienced through the social, to
understand and convey it to others.
The
social encompasses all that we know in practice, through institutions
and structures, and by social forces, propelling our agencies in every
shifting direction. Bestowed with the privilege and the means to write
and authorize, realising that we write for someone other than
ourselves, we must consistently be reflexive in the act of that
conveyance.
The
fourth annual Sociological Conference, occurring on the 15th and 16th
of March 2002, is requesting that academics from all human disciplines
come forward and partake in the imaginative construction of this
wonderland.
Reflecting
upon the multiple locations you have held and engaging the varying
fields occupied or traversed, we ask that you surmise it in an
abstract (250 words) and submit by the thirty-first day of the first
month in the year 2002.
Virtual
evidence and verifications, regarding this event, can be found at:
www.yorku.ca/soci/gradconference
or
direct your inquiries to Erica Stillo at ericas@yorku.ca
REFUGEE
EXPERIENCE COMMUNICATED BY CANADIAN DOCTOR
Our
colleague and former Partnership Advisory Council member Dr. Kevin
Pottie wrote of his experiences in refugee camps in a recent article
in the Globe and Mail. Dr. Pottie is currently an assistant professor
in family medicine at the University of Ottawa. His experience in the
camps was a member of Doctors Without Borders.
To
view his article, go to the website <www.globeandmail.com> and
search on "Pottie".
CULTURE
LINK AWARDS NOMINATIONS
Toronto's
Commitment to "Diverse-City" Awards 2002 - nominations now
open !!
Nominations
for both individuals as well as organizations are welcome from across
the Toronto region in any one of five ( 5 ) categories - 1) youth, 2)
newcomer settlement sector, 3) general community, 4) institutional or
commercial, or 5) CultureLink programme participant.
If
you know of any organizations or individuals who have made any kind of
a significant contribution to the work of helping build equitable and
inclusive diverse community across the City of Toronto - then put
their name forward so that their commitment and contributions to
"diverse-city" can be properly acknowledged.
The
AWARDS are the initiative of CultureLink - one of the largest newcomer
settlement organizations in the Toronto area. The spirit of the annual
Toronto's Commitment to "Diverse-City" Awards is that of
working together to help build both a healthy understanding as well as
a deeper appreciation for the terrifically rich diversities of our
community. This effort at "capacity-building for diversity"
is the natural complement to CultureLink's primary purpose of best
facilitating the healthy and equitable settlement and integration of
newcomers into our Toronto communities.
For
further information about the AWARDS as well as copies of the
nomination materials please contact CultureLink at 416-588-6288 or
mkerr@culturelink.net .All nominations must be received at CultureLink
by Friday February 1, 2002 at 12:00 noon.
METROPOLIS
INTER-CENTRE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Immigration
et metropoles Grants for Doctoral Students
Within
the framework of an exchange program between Metropolis Centres of
Excellence, Immigration et métropoles will award two $6,500 grants
for one-term internships in the Montreal Centre (IM) to graduate
students working on their doctoral dissertation,
from the Toronto (CERIS), Prairies (PCERII) or Vancouver (RIIM)
Centres. The program aims at increasing the exposure of students to
research being carried out in other Metropolis Centres, and to
encourage students to conduct policy-relevant research in a
comparative or pan-Canadian perspective. Internships are to take place
during the Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall 2002 terms.
Application
deadline:
Applications
(including specified documents B see the CERIS website for details)
must be received by the IM secretariat no later than January 14, 2002.
For
further information contact: IMMIGRATION ET METROPOLES
Universite
de Montreal, Pavillon 3744 Jean Brillant # 550, C. P. 6128, succursale
Centre-Ville, Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7
Phone:
514-343-7246 Fax: 514-343-7-7078 Email: im-metropolis@umontreal.ca
The
IMPACS Charities and Advocacy project crossed the country in a
whirlwind tour in September and October, hearing from sports and faith
groups, social services agencies and environmentalists, seniors and
multicultural groups and many more. Over 700 people attended 15
sessions from Newfoundland to Victoria. Over 95% of those gathered
agree that the law that restricts charities from freely engaging in
public policy debate must be changed.
IMPACS
went into the tour with five options for change outlined - in summary,
to clearly identify what charities cannot do, to broaden the
definition of education, to create
a
new category of tax exempt organizations, to create a new definition
of charity, or to borrow from the American model that allows but
defines and monitors advocacy activities closely. We also shared good
news from Australia, Scotland and Britain, where regulators have
proposed or implemented solutions to similar problems.
We
heard dozens of variations, improvements and combinations of those
options, suggestions for administrative changes, plus many new ideas.
Groups proposed establishing an arms length charities commission, a
'fairness audit' of the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency (who
regulate charitable status) by the Auditor General, a voluntary Code
of Ethics on advocacy, and a broadening of the notion of what's public
benefit.
They also highlighted the need for solutions that help those groups
who want charitable status as well as groups who already have status.
Though some warned of the
pitfalls
of 'opening the box', the vast majority of groups told us they want
legislative change and soon.
The
dialogue tour will travel north to Yellowknife on Nov 21st and to
Whitehorse on Nov. 23rd. The draft report from the cross-Canada tour,
with all the detail, will be available for feedback by January 2002,
with the goal of issuing final recommendations by March 2002,
including strategies for achieving change in the short and long term.
The project is a partnership with the Canadian Centre for
Philanthropy.
The
dialogues are one part of a much larger dialogue with the voluntary
sector about the law. For speakers, documents, brochures or newsletter
articles, or to join the database to receive updates, send full snail
mail and email contact info to brendad@impacs.org
Brenda
Doner, Co-ordinator, Charities and Advocacy Project.
IMPACS
- Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society c/o Centre for
Philanthropy,
700-425
University Ave. Toronto, ON, M5G 1T6.
Tel.
416-597-2293 x263, 1-800-263-1178 fax 416-597-2294 www.impacs.org
IMPACS
gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following project
funders: Endswell Foundation, Tides Foundation, VanCity Community
Foundation, Law Foundation of BC, Maytree Foundation, Laidlaw
Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Law
Foundation of Ontario, Vancouver Foundation
Dear
All,
Please
visit SPIRIT-Europe's website to see the details concerning the
recruitment of Marie Curie Fellows (Autumn 2002) at SPIRIT-Europe,
Aalborg University, Denmark.
Thematic
field: "Europe in an Intercultural and Transnational
Context".
http://www.humsamf.auc.dk/spirit/Marie_Curie/mariecurie1.html
Please
circulate widely.
Best
regards, AMID /Jesper Poulsen, Administrative Coordinator
Academy
for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID), SPIRIT and SPIRIT-Europe
******
JUST PUBLISHED *************************
RECOGNIZING
CULTURE
ARecognizing
Culture@ is a just-published series of briefing papers on culture and
development, published in partnership by Comedia, the Department of
Canadian Heritage and UNESCO with support from the World Bank.
It
features an article on "Culture, governance & human
rights" by Karim H. Karim, Assistant Professor, Carleton
University, Ottawa, and CERIS-affiliate Sarah V. Wayland, Adjunct
Professor, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario
WORKING
PAPERS FROM MONTREAL CENTRE
Immigrations
et Metropoles in Montreal kindly forwarded their two latest Working
Papers for our Resource Centre:
Frederique
Bourgeois et Denise Helly, AUne recherche comparative: politiques d=acceuil,
insertion sociale et circulation migratoire. Les refugies kosovars
evacues a Lyon et a Montreal au printemps 1999".
Carolle
Simard, ALa representation des groupes ethniques et des minorites
visibles au niveau municipal: candidats et elus@.
COMMUNITY
RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ETHNIC ECONOMIES:A CASE STUDY OF
PORTUGUESE AND BLACK ENTREPRENEURS IN TORONTO
Carlos
Teixeira
Urban
Studies, Vol, 38, No. 11, 2055-2078, 2001
Summary.
Relatively few attempts have made by geographers in Canada to study
the structure and development of ethnic entreprenourship among
immigrant groups, and particularly among visible minorities. The
purpose of this study is to examine the behaviour, strategies and
barriers faced by owners of ethnic businesses in order to evaluate how
race and ethnicity impact upon entreprenourship. In particular, the
study aims at investigating whether intergroup differences exist with
respect to the utilisation of group resources (such as family,
friends, and community support/ties) and how these resources
contribute to the formation, maintenance and success of Portuguese-and
Black -owned businesses. Data were obtained from a questionnaire
survey that was administered to Portuguese and Black entreprenours in
the Toronto CMA.
Thanks
to CIC Ontario (OASIS) for donating to our Resource Centre a copy of
the just-released report "A Study of the Settlement Experiences
of Eritrean and Somali Parents in Toronto". The study was written
by Jacqueline L. Scott of Praxis Research and Training for the
Community Information Centre for the City of York, the Eritrean
Canadian Community Centre of Metropolitan Toronto, and the Somali
Immigrant Women Association (SIWA).
This
study is also available online with the research reports on <www.settlement.org>
The
latest issue of INSCAN focusses on a very important aspect of
immigrant integration, namely, economic performance. It would not be
an exaggeration to say that meaningful participation in the labour
market provides a foot-hold for immigrants and their children to
participate in other activities of the receiving society. Yet the news
from Canadian labour market is not very promising.
In
their paper on immigrant economic performance in Canada between 1991
and 1996 , Edward B. Harvey and Bobby Siu document disturbing trends
for recent immigrants and refugees in terms of unemployment,
employment income, and poverty. My discussion of Harvey and Siu's
paper locates their findings in a historical and comparative
perspective. Four other papers on the topic discuss particular labour
market issue and programmes. Marc W. D. Tyrrell and Hong Wang provide
valuable insights into the work ethos of unemployed high tech workers
from China, whereas Mengistab Tsegay and his colleagues give us a
glimmer of hope when portraying the employment programmes of an
Ottawa-based project for newcomers; World Skills. The remaining
contributions, one from the Edmonton- based Changing Together and the
other from PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada, reflect on their
employment programmes for immigrant women and all newcomers,
respectively.
For
more information contact: Centre for Peace Action and Migration
Research,
Carlton
University SRB 112, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa. ON. K1S 5B6
Tel.
613-520-2717 , fax: 613-520-3676 website: www.carleton.ca/rrdr/inscan.htm
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
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