CERIS MANAGEMENT BOARD MEETING

 

FRIDAY, May 7, 2004

2:00 - 4:00 pm

 

At the main CERIS (Toronto) office,

246 Bloor St. W., 7th Floor, Room 702

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IMMIGRATION, DIVERSITY, AND HEALTH CARE:  A U.S. PERSPECTIVE

Date: 14 April, 2004    12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

 

EXAMINING HEALTH CARE OF IMMIGRANTS IN ONTARIO USING LARGE HEALTH CARE DATA

Date: April 21, 2004   4:00 – 6:00 pm

 

WHO BUYS A HOUSE?  TRENDS IN HOMEOWNERSHIP OF CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS

Date: May 12, 2004  12:00 – 2:00 pm

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Location: Room 548, 246 Bloor St. West, 5^th Floor (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit)

RSVP: 416-946-3110 by 19 January, 2004

 

SSHRC GRANT FOR DR. PAUL ANISEF

 

CERIS Associate Director and Professor of Sociology at York University, Dr. Paul Anisef, has been awarded a SSHRC grant of $92,660 over the next three years for the project "Economic integration of immigrants and non-immigrants."  With co-investigators Robert Sweet of  Lakehead University, and David Walters of the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Anisef will explore what factors and antecedents contribute to successful integration. They will use data from the Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS) from the 2001 Census, World Bank economic and population data from 208 countries, and education credential equivalency information from over 8,250 Canadian immigrants, contained in the World Education Services Canada (WES) database.

 

The study will examine how educational credentials, social and situational factors, experiences with discrimination, cultural identity, attachment to community, and trust contribute to economic integration.

Immigrant and non-immigrant comparisons will be undertaken in the study to discover the impact that field of study, level of degree, gender and visible minority status have on earnings. Comparisons between those with Canadian earned education credentials versus those with Canadian equivalencies will also be made.

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CIC GRANT FOR DR. USHA GEORGE

CERIS Director, Dr. Usha George, was recently awarded a $43,000 grant from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Settlement and Port of Entry Directorate, Ontario Region) for the project "Recommendations for the Delivery of ISAP Services to Mandarin Speaking Immigrants from Mainland China." The Co-Investigators are Dr. Ka Tat Tsang, Faculty of Social Work, Dr. Eric Fong, Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Dr. Wei Wei Da at CERIS. In the past, the majority of Chinese newcomers to the Greater Toronto Area have been residents of Hong Kong and Taiwan. CIC statistics since 1998 show that Mandarin speaking newcomers from Mainland China are the largest number of newcomers to Canada and the Greater Toronto Region. This project will recommend a course of action for the effective delivery of ISAP services to the Mandarin speaking community in Toronto and the surrounding area.

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DR. NAZILLA KHANLOU WINS CIHR AWARD     

 

CERIS Health Domain Leader, Dr. Nazilla Khanlou, is part of a team which has received a grant of $100,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research under the "Reducing Health Disparities & Promoting Equity for Vulnerable Populations" call for proposals. The Nominated Principal Applicant of the project, entitled “Intersecting Barriers to Health for Immigrant Women with Precarious Status,” is Dr. Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez, Sociologist, School of Social Work and Centre for Applied Family Studies, McGill University and Metropolis Health Domain Leader, Montreal. The project will create a strong, interdisciplinary research team of experts in the fields of gender, health and immigration located in three Canadian cities: Halifax, Montreal and Toronto. Working towards the submission of 5 inter-related research projects that study the barriers to health for women with precarious immigration status, the team will also contribute to the development of research skills among community actors, increase collaboration between academic, community and health service organisations, and train young researchers at the graduate and post-doctoral levels. The ultimate goal is to establish a pan-Canadian team of researchers examining this research topic with the support of the Metropolis Network.

 

Team members include:

Dr. Swarna Weerasinghe: Biostatistician, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University (Metropolis Health Domain Leader, Halifax);

Dr. Vijay Agnew: Social Scientist, School of Women’s Studies and Centre for Feminist Studies, York University;

Dr. Louise Poulin de Courval: Medical Doctor, CLSC Côte-des-Neiges; and

Jill Hanley: Social Worker/Community Organizer, Immigrant Workers’ Centre

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DR. CECILIA ROCHA IS AWARDED $ 1 MILLION CIDA GRANT

 

CERIS Board Member, Dr. Cecilia Rocha, Professor at Ryerson University’s School of Nutrition and the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food Security, has been awarded a $1 million CIDA UPCD Tier II grant to support the implementation of a six year international development project 'Building Capacity in Food Security in Brazil'.

 

The project, with an overall budget of $1.6 million, will be undertaken in collaboration with the Reference Centre for Food and Nutrition Security, at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The initiative will provide community-based education and training models that respond to the development challenge of increasing food security for the most vulnerable populations in developing countries, and in particular in Brazil and Angola.  It will focus on the formation of social actors in food and nutrition security in the poorest region of Brazil and will involve the piloting of new programs in food security with civil society organizations and local governments in three North Eastern regions of Brazil. A number of complementary research projects are also planned

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DEBBIE DOUGLAS NAMED WOMAN OF DISTINCTION

 

Debbie Douglas, Executive Director of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI), is this year's recipient of the YWCA of Greater Toronto Woman of Distinction award for Social Action and Justice. On the CERIS Executive Committee, Debbie represents the interests of our community partners.

 

Congratulations Debbie, on being recognized for decades of achievements working to improve the lives of women and immigrants, while also active in the areas of race relations and social justice.

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POLICY MATTERS NO. 5

 

Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and “Mixed Race” Identities  by  Minelle Mahtani

 

This paper examines how “mixed race” women in Canada look at their relationship to national identity.  The research reveals how some of these women challenge the concept of nation as represented through Canada’s multicultural policy.  Some “mixed race” women develop nuanced models of cultural citizenship. This illustrates that national identities are formed and transformed in relation to representation. The paper addresses the contradictions of the multicultural policy. The policy produces hierarchical spaces against which some “mixed race” women imaginatively negotiate and challenge perceptions of race and gender.

 

The paper is available in PDF format on the “What’s New” section of our website, or click  http://ceris.metropolis.net/PolicyMatter/PolicyMatters5.pdf.  Hard copies are available from the CERIS office.

 

To link to the original report, CERIS Working Paper Series # 20, click
http://ceris.metropolis.net/Virtual%20Library/Demographics/WP20_Mahtani.pdf

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NEW INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER OF CERIS

 

The Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information Exchange has recently affiliated with CERIS as an institutional member. Based at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, CIRRIE is a national centre funded by the U.S. government with the mission of facilitating the sharing of information and expertise between rehabilitation researchers in the U.S. and those in other countries. One of their programs disseminates information about the cultural perspectives of foreign-born persons with disabilities to rehabilitation providers. They have developed a 12-volume monograph series on the cultures of the countries of origin of different immigrant groups. CIRRIE has generously donated a set of the monograph series to our Resource Centre.

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*****NEW DOCUMENTS IN THE CERIS RESOURCE CENTRE*****

Click here for a list of NEW documents in the CERIS Resource Centre in March 2004, or go to: http://ceris.metropolis.net/research-policy/NewdocList/newdoc list.htm

 

If you would like to use the Resource Centre, please call at (416)946-8825 to make an appointment.  Resource Centre opening hours:

                         Monday and Friday 9:30 A.M - 4:30 P.M.

                          Tuesday                    9:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.

 

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POSSIBILITIES PROJECT E-ZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS

                      

MIGRANT HEALTH IN EUROPE

International conference on differences in health and in health care provision

Rotterdam, 23 – 25 June 2004

 

The Erasmus MC, institute of Health Policy and Management cordially invite you to attend the international conference on health and health care provision for ethnic minority groups in Europe, to be held June 23 – 25, 2004, Rotterdam. The provisional programme is now set, and includes many interesting presentations, workshops, and posters.

Contact Information

For information about the conference program contact Mrs Lilian Hoonhout, Erasmus MC hoonhout@bmg.eur.nl. Or visit the website www.migranthealth.net

 

REGISTRATION

Elita Zoer conference organisation, Tolstraat 1,

4231 BB Meerkerk, The Netherlands

Telephone: ++31 (0)183 354057

Telefax: ++31 (0)183 354047

E-mail: e.zoer@planet.nl

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OVERCOMING HEALTH DISPARITIES: GLOBAL EXPERIENCES FROM PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN COMMUNITIES, HEALTH SERVICES AND HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS

Date:  October 6 - 10, 2004 - Atlanta, GA, USA.

 

The conference is co-sponsored by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and The Network: Towards Unity for Health.  Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.the-networktufh.org/conference/registration.asp

 

The deadline for the Poster Hall and Thematic Poster Sessions is July 1.

 

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.  Visit the website at www.ccph.info

 

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

 

NINTH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE

COOPERATIVE MIGRATION MANAGEMENT

Date: September 27 – October 1, 2004  in Geneva, Switzerland

 

Deadline for workshop proposals has been extended to April 30, 2004

 

The overall theme of this year’s conference will be cooperative migration management, an emerging issue that is especially appropriate for a conference in Geneva with its many international headquarters.  At issue is how various levels of governments, international organizations and civil society can discuss and work together to get the best out of the complex phenomena associated with international migration and migration flows.  Of central importance is whether co-operative migration management can create mutual advantages for both countries of origin and destination.

 

For more information, please visit the website: www.metropolis2004.ch

Or email <info@metropolis2004.ch>

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REFUGE, CANADA'S PERIODICAL ON REFUGEES

Call for Papers

 

Betwixt and Between: Refugees and Stateless Persons in Limbo

Guest Editor: Harry Kits, Citizens for Public Justice

 

The refugee experience is far from over upon arrival in the country of asylum. Indeed, in many ways, the struggle to create a new life has only begun. As refugees can attest to, the process of fully normalizing their lives - reuniting with family members, securing local education for themselves and their children, finding appropriate employment, and participating in the political life of their new countries - is one fraught with legal and procedural difficulties, a process that leaves many in "limbo" long after their new lives should be well under way. Similar limbo is experienced by the stateless, those denied the basic yet essential right of nationality. Like refugees, stateless people face often insurmountable difficulties in securing the core protections of the state in which they reside. And, as is the case for refugees, the existence of international treaties aimed at assuring their protection far from guarantees their physical or legal security.

 

Refugees face indeterminacy and delay at every stage of the process - at the outset, when attempting to gain access to the determination system; once refugee status is granted, while awaiting more permanent residency or equivalent status; and for some, at the tail end of the system, when status is denied, but risks in the country of origin prevent their return home. State imposed barriers such as security reviews, identity document requirements, and processing fees, prolong and exacerbate the challenges of the refugee experience.  Distinctive barriers are also faced by stateless persons, who may find themselves without formal status, without rights to seek employment, access to health care, or education for their children. With neither the right to remain nor anywhere to return to, they are truly betwixt and between.

 

Contributions must be received by April 30th, 2004.

 

Please consult the Refuge Web site for details regarding required style and paper length: http://www.yorku.ca/crs/refuge.

 

Contact:

Editor-in-Chief: Sharryn J. Aiken, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, 325 York Lanes, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada.

Email: refuge@yorku.ca

Tel: (416) 736-5663

Fax: (416) 736-5837

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13TH NORDIC MIGRATION CONFERENCE

Date: 18-20 November, 2004

 

Organized by the Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID)

2nd Call for Papers

Submission deadline: 1 May 2004

 

The Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark invites papers for the 13th Nordic Migration Conference

For further information about the conference (including detailed descriptions of the 13 panels for submission of papers) please see the conference website

http://www.amid.dk/ocs/index.php?cf=1

Please note that abstracts must be submitted using the online conference website:

 

Registration

Online registration for the conference is available at:

http://www.amid.dk/ocs/registration.php?cf=1

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CRRF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) MARCH 2004

 

The deadline for receipt of proposals is Friday, June 4, 2004.

 

Over the years the Canadian Race Relations Foundation has been working towards creating a body of research that addresses systemic racism. The CRRF’s goal is to ensure the research findings and recommendations are actionable and the results are promoted widely.

 

The CRRF invites the submission of proposals to undertake participatory action research with a strong focus on combating racism in Canada. Academic researchers are encouraged to work with community-based organizations to achieve the benefit of both levels of expertise.  Please view the full document at

<http://www.crr.ca/EN/Programs/Research/eProg_ContractResearch0304.htm>

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GLOBAL MIGRATION PERSPECTIVES

 

The Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM) was established in January 2004 with the encouragement of the UN Secretary General.  Its mandate, which spans 18 months, includes fostering a comprehensive debate on international migration amongst all stakeholders. One activity to meet this objective is the establishment of a research paper series.  GCIM invites contributions to this new series  titled ‘Global Migration Perspectives’, edited by Dr Jeff Crisp and Dr Colleen Thouez.  The purpose of the series is to contribute to the current discourse on global migration issues, and to assist the Commission in formulating policy options and proposals for its final report, which will be submitted to the UN Secretary-General in mid-2005.  Preference will be given to papers that provide new, creative and policy-relevant perspectives on global migration issues, including labour migration; the demography of global migration; migration and development; migration, security and human rights; irregular migration; migration, social cohesion and diversity; stakeholders in global migration; and global and regional governance of migration. 

 

The GCIM website can be found at www.gcim.org.  Correspondence relating to the research paper series should be sent to info@gcim.org, with ‘Global Perspectives’ in the subject line.

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ISSUES IN WOMEN’S HEALTH: DIVERSITY IN RESEARCH

An opportunity for graduate students, researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas about women’s health research.

 

Date: May 20, 2004

Deadline for submissions: March 22, 2004

 

The Centre for Research in Women’s Health (CRWH) invites proposals for paper presentations for its third annual graduate research day.  This day-long conference is unique in bringing together researchers-in-training from across the University of Toronto to exchange research findings, innovative methodologies and theoretical insights about women’s health. Presenters in the past  have been from a range of disciplines including: Community & Family Medicine, Public Health Sciences, Pharmacy (Pharmacology), Law, Nursing, Institute for Medical Science, Adult Education (OISE), Physical Education and Health, Social Work, Nutritional Sciences, English and Sociology/Equity Studies (OISE).

 For more information, please visit the website < http://www.crwh.org>

Please email your submissions (or questions about submissions) to: crwh.education@sw.ca.