CERIS MANAGEMENT BOARD MEETING

 

FRIDAY, JAN 24, 2003

2:00 - 4:00 P.M.

At the main CERIS (Toronto) office, 246 Bloor St. W., 5th Floor, Room 548

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CERIS PARTNERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL (PAC) MEETING

 

Friday  JAN 30, 2003

1:00 - 3:00 P.M.

 

At the main CERIS (Toronto) office, 246 Bloor St. W., 5th Floor, Rm. 548

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NEWS FROM CERIS STAFF

 

NEW CERIS STAFF

 

CERIS has had the services of Wilhelmina Peter in a number of capacities, and we are pleased to announce that she has now been added to our staff. Wilhelmina has her master's in English Studies but has a broad background in teaching and broadcasting, so we will be availing of her experience in many ways. She is currently revising our CERIS brochure that explains who we are and what we are about, and will take over the editing of this monthly electronic news bulletin. Welcome, Wilhelmina!                                                                                     _______

 

FAREWELL, TED!

 

A farewell party for Ted Richmond, CERIS's first Administrative Coordinator, took place on Friday, November 29, 2002 at St. James Gate Restaurant in downtown Toronto.

 

Almost 50 people attended the dinner party. The party started at 6 pm with cocktails, followed by a buffet style dinner. Paul Anisef took on a role of Master of Ceremony for the night and made sure all guests were entertained, including Ted himself! Michael Lanphier, John Shields, Khan Rahi, Valerie Preston, Fidelia Torres, Andre Lynn, Miranda Pinto, Lynn Caruso and Paula De Coito were among the volunteers who wished to say a few words about Ted and his work at CERIS. Kenise Murphy Kilbride read a letter of thanks and recognition from Morton Beiser, Director of CERIS, who could not be present at the party personally.

 

In the end, Ted was presented with Gift Certificates from Sporting Life, a way for CERIS to express its gratitude for all those years of hard work, contribution and dedication to CERIS. We wish you success in your new position, Ted, and we hope that you enjoyed the party!

 

CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN IMMIGRATION TO CANADA

 

The seminar will take place at CERIS on JANUARY 22, 2003. The Ukraine will be looked at from a political-economic perspective as one of the sending countries of immigrants to Canada. The focus of this series of winter seminars will be on areas of the world that are "developing" or, in the case of the Ukraine, " in transition". Each seminar will examine the factors that contribute to emigration and their implications for Canadian policy and practice.

 

Historically, the Ukraine had been sending immigrants to explore and work on Canadian land in the agricultural sector since late 19th century and also after World War II. This seminar, however, will be talking about the modern wave of immigration or the "Fourth Wave: 1991-2001", so-classified in a ground-breaking study conducted by Dr. Wsevelod Isajiw, Professor Emeritus and former Robert F. Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Professor Victor Satzewich (Department of Sociology, McMaster University), and Ewhen Duvalko (Executive Director, Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society, Toronto). Speakers presently confirmed include Professor Victor Satzewich and Ewhen Duvalko.

 

SEMINAR DETAILS: WED, JAN 22, 2003, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, 

 

CERIS (246 Bloor Street West, Room 548, 5th floor)

 

Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be served. 

 

For more information, please contact Yuliya Prodaniuk at (416) 946-3110 or by email: y.prodaniuk@utoronto.ca

 

http://ceris.metropolis.net

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CITIZENSHIP STUDIES SYMPOSIUM AND MEDIA LAB FOR CITIZENSHIP STUDIES RECEPTION

January 15, 2003

214 Calumet College, York University

 

The symposium features graduate and postdoctoral students and ends with a keynote address by 

Professor Daiva Stasiulis (Carleton). You can find paper abstracts at: <http://csml.calumet.yorku.ca>.

 

This symposium has no registration or fee. 

(For the reception please RSVP to Dana Dawson <dgdawson@yorku.ca>).

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EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE
SEP 15 - 19, 2003
Vienna, Austria

Gaining from migration - A Global Perspective on Opportunities for Economic and Social Prosperity

Call for Workshop Proposals
<http://www.international.metropolis.net/events/vienna/workshop_proposal_e.htm>

DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: DEC 31, 2002

www.international.metropolis.net <<http://www.international.metropolis.net>>
Vienna2003@metropolis.net <mailto:Vienna2003@metropolis.net> <javascript:open_compose_win('popup=1&to=Vienna2003%40metropolis.net%3E&cc=&

bcc=&msg=&subject=&thismailbox=INBOX');>

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THE 23RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN EVALUATION SOCIETY (CES)

DATE: JUNE 1 - 4, 2003

The 23rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) is taking place in Vancouver, BC. The theme is "In the Public's Best Interest: Evaluation, Accountability and Transparency".

Information about the Conference can be found at: <http://c2003.evaluationcanada.ca/>
Or contact: Sue Ryan, Assistant to the CES Conference Secretariat
sryan@thewillowgroup.com Tel: (613)725-2526

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VOLUNTARY SECTOR INITIATIVE

The Voluntary Sector Initiative's codes of good practices on "policy dialogue" and "funding"are available at the web site below. The VSI is a federal government initiative.
Click on: <http://www.vsi-isbc.ca/eng/joint_tables/accord/codes.cfm>

The policy code commits the government and the voluntary sector to open communication, putting resources to work on policy activities, significant representation from across the sector, strengthening their knowledge and policy capacity, informing each other of policy implications and conclusions, and being sensitive to regional realities. The code also sets out good practices for the government and the sector. The funding code sets out a broad range of responsibilities to which the sector and the government are committed.

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CRITICAL MULTICULTURAL PRACTICE: COUNSELLING IN THE CONTEXT OF DIFFERENCE AND OPPRESSION (IN A CANADIAN CONTEXT)

DATE: WED, JUNE 11, 2003

A one-day conference on Multicultural Counselling will be held at OISE/University of Toronto to explore the theory, practice and research of counselling in terms of gender, ‘race’, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientations, disability, class and religion.

More information is available on the internet at:<http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/aecdcp/CMPConference.html>

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OWCC SEEKS BOARD MEMBERS

The Office Workers Career Centre (OWCC),a non-profit organization with five years of history in employment and labour adjustment services for administrative support workers, is seeking board members. Please apply at:
<http://action.web.ca/home/actew/alerts.shtml?sh_itm=75bfd0eeb5e1cbcfd4f4879b>
47d098ef&AA_EX_Session=ec9120fd262c4f0aabcd8b27bad244a8

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***** CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS *****

 

METROPOLIS AWARD FOR POLICY-RESEARCH (MAP):

HELPING TO MAP THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN POLICY ON IMMIGRATION AND DIVERSITY

DEADLINE: JAN 10, 2003

 

Metropolis will award $6,000 to an accomplished scholar for a short, policy-focussed paper on migration and diversity. The paper is to provide a thoughtful analysis of phenomena associated with migration and diversity with an assessment of its importance for Canada’s future. Although the paper is not to be an academic research report, it should nonetheless be grounded in research undertaken either by the author or by others in the field. The piece must be under 5,000 words and must be accompanied by a separate executive summary of no more than 500 words. The complete paper will be published in the Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI).

 

This year, the paper must address the following questions:

What role should immigration play in the development of Canadian society, including its economy, during the first quarter of the 21st century? 

What must government policy emphasize in order that immigration to Canada plays that role successfully? 

To what extent should governments involve themselves in actively managing immigration and its effects?

Scholars should highlight the main issues as discussed in public fora and academic literature. They should provide a research-based analysis of the issues and of existing or potential policy responses. The focus of this paper will be on the practical application of research and it may consider either large-scale or department-specific issues.

 

Eligibility

The researcher must be affiliated to a Metropolis Centre of Excellence in Canada. This includes researchers who are actively involved in center research and those who have contributed to a Metropolis event in Canada. Both faculty and graduate students are invited to make a submission.

 

Evaluation

The paper will be evaluated on its ability to inform a new, action-oriented policy vision for the government partners in the Metropolis Project. A panel of senior policy officials and one non-affiliated researcher will review all submissions.

Submissions

Please send your paper and executive summary by e-mail to map@metropolis.net by January 10, 2003. We prefer that you send electronic files using IBM compatible software. Please include your full name, institutional affiliation, and complete contact details. The winner will be informed in early March.

 

The Metropolis Award for Policy-Research will be awarded at the Sixth National Metropolis Conference on March 21-25, 2003 in Edmonton.

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

RE-SEARCHING RESEARCH AGENDAS: WOMEN, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

 

At Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, JUNE 25-27, 2003. For more information and an application form please see: <http://www.uts.edu.au/oth/wexdev>

Topics to be covered include:
- Strategic Issues in Higher Education Research and Development: national and institutional research priorities; disciplines and research; research cultures
- Gender and Research: gender, race and class; time constraints; work and family, research, teaching and administration
- Personal Reflections on Careers in research and publication, promotion and employability
- Change and Transformation: rethinking the PhD; impact of new technologies
- Mechanisms to Improve Research Productivity: mentoring for success; networking; support systems; project management
- Upgrading Processes of Research and Publication: application; assessment; peer review; accumulative advantage
- Research and Consultancies: industry links, public versus private; accountability and intellectual property
- Exploring Research Partnerships: globalization and research
- Feminist Pedagogies

The call for papers and application form are downloadable from the web-site or write to:
Colleen Chesterman
National Director, ATN WEXDEV Program
University of Technology, Sydney
P O Box 123, SYDNEY NSW 2007
Australia
Phone: 61 2 9514 2931; Fax: 61 2 9514 1327; E-mail:colleen.chesterman@uts.edu.au

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

SEEING THINGS: EXPLORATIONS IN VISION, KNOWLEDGE AND POWER - AN INTERNATIONAL AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

On May 2 - 4, 2003 at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JAN 6, 2003

 

What are the implications of our investments in "...representational systems as apparatuses of power"? [Craig Owens]

 

Vision has long been the privileged mode of observation in the West. While other cultures have developed more sensory-integrated ways of experiencing and describing the world, western cultures have tended to follow the doctrine of "seeing is believing". Recent critical scholarship has challenged the infallibility of vision and theorized it as active, unstable and inseparable from the identity and location of the seer/viewer.

 

Similarly, theories of the gaze have opened up dialogue around vision, power and subjectivity. In cultures where seeing is equated with knowing or knowledge, how has vision and the organization of vision informed political, social and cultural ideals, beliefs and structures? Vision as the basis of scientific observation, social surveillance and corporeal regulation has historically been embedded within colonial, patriarchal and heterosexist discourses and constitutive of normative ideals of subjects and citizens. Meanwhile, theories of identity often privilege vision as the primary sense through which subjectivity is achieved and bodies differentiated.

 

The Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research and the Department of Visual Arts welcome contributions across disciplines, which explore, challenge and re-define these and other aspects of the political, social, historical, legal and cultural implications of vision. Topics may include, but are not limited to: vision and racial classification; vision and sexual desire; the limits of the visual as the erotic or pornographic; visual consumption and identity; theories of the visual; vision and other senses; vision as a mode of scientific observation; writing vision; the role of vision in architectural surveillance; vision and the body; visual methods of corporeal regulation; the gendering of vision; visual identity and legal discourse etc.

 

We welcome the submission of proposals for panel sessions or papers (20 minutes). We also encourage proposals for performance art or other performative aspects of this topic.

 

PLEASE SEND A 1 PAGE ABSTRACT, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND CONTACT

DETAILS TO: Alison Lee, Director, Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research, The University of Western Ontario, University College, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7 or WITHIN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to alee@uwo.ca

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CALL FOR PAPERS

AFRICAN TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL FIELDS

This call for papers is being sent to attract scholars interested in African transnational practices to present a paper at the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association’s 17th Biennial Conference, at the Banff Centre for Performing Arts, in Alberta, on October 2 - 4, 2003.

 

For more information about the conference, please visit the Association’s website: www.ucalgary.ca/CESA

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GEOIDE GRANT

 

GEOIDE (Geomatics for Informed Decision Making), a Network Centre of Excellence based in Laval University, has awarded $207,150 to a group of CERIS researchers to work on a project entitled "A Geomatics Approach to Immigrant Settlement Services: The Integration of Supply and Demand over Space and Time". CERIS Domain leaders Dr. Lucia Lo (Economics) and Dr. Myer Siemiatycki (Community) are Co-Principal Investigators of the project. Other members of the research team include Drs. Mehrunnisa Ali, Marie Truelove, Shuguang Wang at Ryerson University; Paul Anisef, Qiuming Cheng, Robert Murdie at York University; Annick Germain and
Damaris Rose at INRS, University of Quebec; and Brian Klinkenberg at the University of British Columbia. OASIS and CERIS are partners to this project.

The project studies the relationship between immigrant settlement patterns and the provision of newcomer settlement services. The underlying premise is that while Canada's federal, provincial and municipal governments fund a wide array of newcomer services and programs, they do not always reach those most in need of assistance. This project seeks to understand the mis-match, if any, between the supply of and demand for newcomer services. It explores how geographic
factors such as immigrant residential settlement patterns, service agency locations, transit routes and central city/suburban differences combine with social factors such as gender, mother tongue, religion and socio-economic status to influence access to and usage of newcomer services. While the primary focus is on the experience in Toronto, it will be supplemented by comparative case studies from Montreal and Vancouver. The ultimate aim is to enhance the capacity of policy makers and settlement service agencies to advance the social inclusion of newcomers to Canadian society.

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RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION AND THE CITY EMERGENCY'S SHELTERS

 

CERIS partnered with the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University to submit a successful proposal in a recent Call for Proposals by the City of Toronto on the impact of migration on the City's emergency shelters. Dr. Kenise Murphy Kilbride and Dr. Joseph Springer, both CERIS Research Associates, are the co-Principal Investigators on this project.

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VISIT BY SWEDISH GOVERNMENT DELEGATION

 

On December 4, 2002 CERIS was honored by a Swedish government delegation visit. The purpose of this visit was to learn more about the Center’s work on immigration and to share experiences on the trends in current research.

The members of the Swedish delegation were:

- Mr. Jan O. Karlsson, Minister for Development, Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy;

- Mr. Lennart Alvin, Ambassador, Embassy of Sweden, Ottawa;

- Mr. Per Sjogren, Director General for Migration and Asylum Policy;

- Mr. Kristof Tamas, Deputy Director, Department for Migration and Asylum Policy;

- Mr. Martin Sandgren, Political Advisor to the Minister;

- Mr.Pontus Melander, Counselor, Embassy of Sweden, Ottawa;

- Mr. Jorgen Halldin, Desk Officer, Americas Department.

 

CERIS was represented by:

- Dr. Paul Anisef, Associate Director, CERIS;

- Dr. Robert Murdie, Housing & Neighbourhoods Research Domain Leader;

- Dr. Myer Siemiatycki, Community Research Domain Leader;

- Dr. Scot Wortley, Justice and Law Research Domain Leader

- Ms. Wendy Kwong, Chair, Partners’ Advisory Council, CERIS

- Ms. Elizabeth Gryte, Member, Partners’ Advisory Council, CERIS and Director, Ontario Administration of Settlement and Integration Services,Citizenship and Immigration Canada;

- Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Associate Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University and CERIS Research Associate;

- Dr. Mohammad Qadeer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology & Urban Planning, Queen’s University and CERIS Research Associate;

- Dr. Kenise Murphy Kilbride, Interim Coordinator, CERIS.

 

Interests of the Swedish delegates included the issues of crime and racism as linked to migration, and housing policies as linked to positive spatial segregation and dispersal. The group also discussed the issues of linking development policy to immigration to achieve more equitable societies ; and regionalization, i.e. the settlement of immigrants beyond metropolitan areas.

The CERIS representatives were impressed to learn that Swedish policies attempt to harmonize immigration and development policies in response to ethical concerns about the brain drain from developing countries.

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CERIS DATA WORKSHOP WILL BE REPEATED

DATE: WED, DEC. 18, 2002, 1:30 - 4:00 PM.
Location: Room A346 (Jorgenson Hall), Ryerson University

The Data Committee of CERIS, together with the Department of Geography at Ryerson University, ran a workshop on Nov 8, to demonstrate several CERIS-maintained databases for interested researchers. Due to a high demand, they will repeat the workshop on Wednesday, December 18, 2002 at the same location. The databases to be demonstrated are Landing Records, Tax Data, the 1996 Census Core Tables, and the 1996 Census Tabulations created by Canadian Heritage. The purpose of the workshop is to explain data contents and structure. It is a hands-on workshop, where each participant will have access to a computer to browse the data contents and practice creating his/her own cross- tabulations, using such software as Beyond2020 and SPSS. If time permits, they will also demonstrate how the data can be used to show geographical distribution of immigrants and their settlement patterns.

Anyone interested in immigration research (academics, community researchers and graduate students) is invited. Interested researchers should contact the Data Committee Chair (by e-mail: swang@ryerson.ca)
for registration. Registration is free, but the computer lab has a capacity of 30 machines, so only the first 30 registrants can be accommodated.

IN YOUR REGISTRATION, PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

Your name
Affiliation and position at school or work place
Your research interest
e-mail address

You will be notified before the workshop through e-mail.

Shuguang Wang (Ph.D)
CERIS Data Committee Chair
Associate Professor
School of Applied Geography
Ryerson University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3
Tel. (416) 979-5000 (ext. 6172)
Fax: (416) 979-5362
E-mail: swang@ryerson.ca

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ARTICLE ON RACIAL PROFILING

 

Professor Scot Wortley, Domain Leader for Justice and Law at CERIS, had a very informative article published in The Toronto Star on Nov. 25. In the midst of Toronto's debate on racial profiling by the police, Dr. Wortley wrote "Profiling: One Source of Alienation". Herewith is a summary of his article.

 

A survey of about 3,400 high-school students conducted by the University of Toronto supports the contrary claims made by the black community and the Toronto police on racial profiling. The survey was conducted by Professor Scot Wortley of the university’s Centre of Criminology and his research partner at the Department of Sociology, Professor Julian Tanner.

 

The police say that they do not target would-be suspects based on race, but instead rely on their gut feelings to distinguish between criminals and law-abiding citizens. 81% of drug dealers in the survey have been searched by police over the past two years compared to 16% of students who are not drug dealers. Students involved in criminal behaviour get police attention and the police almost never arrest students who are not involved in crimes. The survey also does not provide any evidence that the Toronto Police Service has ever had a formal policy of racial profiling.

On the other hand, supporting claims made by black citizens, the survey found that over the past two years, more than 40% of black students say they have been subjected to police searches and random street interrogations, and of this figure 34 % have not been involved in any criminal activity. This compares with only 16% of white students who have been searched by police but 96% of them were involved in some form of criminal activity. Good behaviour by black students thus does not protect them from police searches.

 

Being subjected to greater police surveillance means that black criminals are more likely to get caught than white criminals. 65% of black students engaged in drug dealing have been arrested compared to only 35% of white drug dealers, leading to the over-representation of blacks in arrest statistics.

 

A significant consequence of police surveillance is that black youth are even more alienated from mainstream Canadian society and feelings of discrimination become reality. A black student, no matter how well behaved, is more likely to be subjected to police searches and interrogations than a white student.

 

Research done in the U.S. suggests that this discriminatory behaviour is the result of a police sub-culture based on racial stereotyping. The informal beliefs of police officers may be difficult to change through new policies or race-relations programs. More effective solutions to the problems of racial profiling and stereotyping can be developed through further research on these issues.

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