The Bulletin comes out each month to keep you informed about upcoming events in and around CERIS and the Metropolis Project, including seminars, conferences, public consultations, new research resources, and meetings of the Governance Board, its working committees and Partnership Advisory Council.
The deadline for information to be included in the next Monthly Bulletin is January 3, 2006.
v News from CERIS, CERIS Researchers, and Partners
v CERIS Seminars
v Public Events, Conferences & Announcements
v Call for Papers and Proposals
v CERIS Working Paper and Policy Matters Series
v CERIS Holiday Closing
v New Documents and Data in the CERIS Resource Centre
v CERIS Virtual Library
v Internet Resources
***** CERIS MEETINGS *****
Friday, January 13, 2006 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Friday, March 24, 2006 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Friday, May 26, 2006 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
At the main CERIS (Toronto) office, 246 Bloor St. West, 7th Floor, Room 702
***** CERIS SEMINARS *****
HOW MIGRATION REGULATES LABOUR MARKETS
Date: Friday, December 9, 2005 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Harald Bauder, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Guelph
With international migrants serving as nannies, construction workers, gardeners and small-business entrepreneurs in the industrialized world, the traditional point of view is that labour markets shape international migration flows. Dr. Harald Bauder would however argue that the international migration of workers is necessary for the survival of industrialized economies and that migration regulates labour markets through processes of social distinction, cultural judgment and the strategic deployment of citizenship. With European and North American case studies, he will illustrate how different legal, social and cultural strategies towards international migrants are deployed to render migrants and immigrants vulnerable, pushing them into performing distinct economic roles and into subordinate labour market situations.
Location: Room 548, 246 Bloor St. West, Toronto (St. George Subway Station, Bedford Road Exit)
RSVP: ceris.reception@utoronto.ca
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For previous seminar presentation materials, please visit the CERIS website at:
***** NEWS FROM CERIS, CERIS RESEARCHERS, AND PARTNERS *****
2006 CERIS REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:00pm
All documents on the CERIS 2006 Request for Proposals, including the RFP, Application Form and Frequently Asked Questions, are now available on our website in PDF format in the “What's New” section.
Proposals must be received at the CERIS main office no later than Monday, January 23, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Please visit the CERIS website for full details and to
download the application form:
http://ceris.metropolis.net/frameset_e.html
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CERIS DOMAIN RESTRUCTURING
The CERIS Governance Board recently approved a new Domain for CERIS. The “Citizenship, Religion and Culture Domain” will be lead by Dr. Patricia K. Wood, Associate Professor and Chair of Geography at York University. She does research on citizenship, diversity and identity politics, particularly in cities in Western Canada. She has focused on the cultural and political negotiation of identities among immigrant communities and among Native groups. We wish to warmly welcome Dr. Wood to the CERIS community.
The Community and Housing and Neighbourhoods Domains have merged into a new Domain entitled “Community, Neighbourhoods and Housing” and will be led by Dr. Myer Siemiatycki, Professor, Department of Politics and School of Public Administration, and Program Director, Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Ryerson University.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Robert Murdie, Professor, Department of Geography, York University, for his many years of service as leader of the Housing and Neighbourhoods Domain. We are grateful for his hard work and unwavering commitment to CERIS.
Full descriptions of all six CERIS Domains and contact information for Domain Leaders are available on our website at: www.ceris.metropolis.net
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CERIS STAFF CHANGES
Please join us in welcoming Colleen Burke back as CERIS Coordinator. She returns to the position that was capably filled for the past year by Maleksultan Kaba, whose last day with CERIS was November 11, 2005. Maleksultan will be missed by the CERIS community and we wish her all the best in her future endeavours.
Julie Young will finish her contract position as Administrative and Special Projects Assistant at the end of December. We hope to fill the position quickly and the job opening has been posted internally at the University of Toronto. We’d like to thank Julie for her excellent work both for CERIS and the EMPIRICAL project and wish her well in her future graduate studies.
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2005 CERIS RESEARCH RETREAT
The Research Retreat was held on Friday, November 18, 2005 and was attended by 60 people. The federal government was well-represented with the following presenters: Mr. Steven Morris, Director, Metropolis Institute; Mr. Frank Andrews, Deputy Director, Immigration Levels Management, Citizenship and Immigration Canada; Ms. Mary Shanes, Research Analyst, Strategic Research and Statistics, Citizenship and Immigration Canada; Ms. Eden Thompson, Labour Market Policy Research Unit, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. Mr. Harvey Low represented the City of Toronto and Mr. John Campey from the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto represented community. Ideas which emerged from the break out groups were discussed by the Management Committee and Domain Leaders in the afternoon session and were very useful in the drafting of the 2006 RFP.
The retreat minutes and the powerpoint presentations are available on our website at: www.ceris.metropolis.net
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EMPIRICAL COURSES ON MIGRATION – RYERSON UNIVERSITY
Winter 2006, Toronto
The EMPIRICAL Project is a series of undergraduate level courses on immigration and settlement issues developed by leading Canadian scholars. In the Winter 2006 term, Ryerson University will offer two of the EMPIRICAL courses through the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education:
CINT 914 Settlement Experiences
This course
examines the settlement processes experienced by new immigrants and refugees.
The course discusses the different forms of resettlement, reception,
repatriation, social capital and human capital. It will also discuss the
theoretical approaches to citizenship, nationalism and multiculturalism. The
course introduces the intersection of race, gender, class and citizenship. It
reviews current debates regarding settlement policies and services provided to
different classes of immigrants.
Schedule: Tuesdays 6:00-9:00pm January 10, 2006 – April 18, 2006
CINT 915 Responses to Migration
The focus of the course will be on the determinants of responses
to migrants and migration through an examination of topics including racism, the
media, legal status, services available to newcomers, education and credential
recognition, and issues of housing discrimination. The goals of this course are
to familiarize students with factors known to contribute to negative or positive
responses to migrants and migration. In addition students will learn to apply
these factors to important practical issues in a critical and reflective manner
such as understanding trends over time in migration attitudes and looking at
present strategies that may be utilized to improve responses to migrants and
migration.
Schedule: Monday, February 20 – Friday, February 24 8:30am – 6:00pm
(Offered as a one-week intensive course over Study Week)
Registration is now open for all continuing
education students for the Winter 2006 term. For further details and to learn
how to register online, please contact Ryerson Continuing Education:
Phone: 416-979-5035 Email: ce@ryerson.ca
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THE SUMMER COURSE ON REFUGEE ISSUES – YORK UNIVERSITY
Dates: June 10 – 18, 2006
Location: Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto
The Summer Course on Refugee Issues is an internationally acclaimed 8-day training for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced migration. The course involves a rigorous schedule of lectures, panels and discussions, and a simulation exercise. The course draws from academic and field-based experts for its faculty and, reflecting the mission of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies, serves as a hub for researchers, students, service providers and policy makers to share information and ideas.
A preliminary list of topics for the 2006 Summer
Course includes:
- The convention refugee definition
- Cross-national comparisons of asylum policies
- The UNHCR
- The UN Human Rights Commission
- International and local advocacy networks and mechanisms
- Globalization and forced migration
- National borders and security policies
- Trafficking, smuggling, organized crime
- Public health responses to refugee crises
- Psychological care and psychosocial interventions
- Internally Displaced Persons
- Transnationalism and identity
- Repatriation and post-conflict reconstruction
- Sanctuary
Course Fee: $850
After March 31, 2006:
$950
Sponsored applicants may be eligible for the $850 fee past March 31 if proof of
sponsorship is provided before this date. Fee includes course and all course
materials. Food and accommodation are not included. A limited number of tuition
subsidies are available.
For further information and application materials, visit: www.yorku.ca/crs
Contact: Irene Tumwebaze, Summer Course Coordinator
Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Suite 315, York Lanes, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario MJ3 1P3
Phone: 416-736-5423
Email: summer@yorku.ca
***** PUBLIC EVENTS, CONFERENCES & ANNOUNCEMENTS*****
EIGHTH NATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE
March 23-26, 2006, Vancouver, Canada
Deadline for workshop proposals: December 16, 2005
Immigration and Canada's Place in a changing world
Planning is under way for the next national conference, hosted this year by the Vancouver Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis. The conference will take place in March 2006 at the Westin Bayshore Resort and Marina (http://www.westinbayshore.com/).
Workshops will be held in the afternoon sessions of the conference and may be proposed for one or two consecutive 90-minute sessions. Proposals must include: names and contact information of the organizer(s), a title (no more than 20 words), an abstract (no more than 100 words), a description (no more than 250 words), the list of proposed presenters (which should include representation from policy, academic research, and the NGO sector), and a statement indicating whether the workshop will be 90 or 180 minutes.
Proposals can be submitted online at: www.metropolis2006.net
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ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE
October 2-6, 2006, Lisboa, Portugal
Deadline for workshop proposals: February 28, 2006
Paths and Crossroads: Moving People, Changing Places
The organizers welcome all contributions that deal with issues such as:
- Co-development, decentralized cooperation and immigration
- Media and communication technologies
- Reshaping places: cultural and socio-economic changes
- Come and go: temporary migration, shuttle migration and people on the move
- Trafficking and illegal migration
- Redefining security and borders
- Transnationalism, diasporas and multiple belonging
- Integration and interaction in the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) world
- Cosmopolitanism and the new symbolic economy of cities
- “Platform places” as migration interfaces
Submissions of proposals for workshops can be made to an adjudicated review process. A panel of experts will evaluate each workshop proposal on criteria such as quality, best fit with conference theme, overall programme structure and representation of different viewpoints. The panel will look to balance representation of world regions and gender.
Please submit workshop proposals via email to: metropolis2006@ceg.ul.pt
For more information, visit the conference website at:
http://www.ceg.ul.pt/metropolis2006
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STATISTICS CANADA CENSUS INFORMATION SESSIONS
Date: Tuesday January 10, 2006 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: 4900 Yonge Street (Yonge and Sheppard), Toronto, Canada
May 16, 2006 is Canada's next Census Day. The census provides the only source of community-level information for economic, social and demographic conditions and trends occurring in Canada. As such, data from the census are an indispensable decision-making tool used by provincial and municipal governments, business, industry, associations, non-governmental organizations, academia, media, research and individuals.
Statistics Canada is offering FREE Census Information Sessions for all professionals who work with immigrants. The presentation will include demographic information on recent immigrants, changes to the census and an overview of our multilingual, informational and promotional Census materials.
The sessions will take place throughout major cities in Ontario in the months of January and February. Each session will last for approximately three hours. For times and locations of additional sessions please contact us directly.
To sign up for the session on January 10, or for more information, please contact:
Census Communications at 416-952-9962 or via email at Ontario.2006@statcan.ca
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Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse, "Moving Upstream Together" Conference, Partnering For Ontario's Future Health and Well-being
February 21-22, 2006, University of Toronto
Join us to listen to provocative and exciting speakers, celebrate and learn from innovative actions and successful partnerships that have improved societal health. Meet new people and network with friends. Help us identify the changes Ontario needs to create strong social and policy commitments for prevention and health promoting initiatives. Most of all, be part of a forum that will pave the way for future 'prevention-building' strategies. This unique, bilingual working conference will also celebrate the 20th anniversaries of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse. Attend if your work is related to: promoting health, social services, child development, community or public health, poverty, housing, disease prevention, inclusion, policy, research, social advocacy. We can build bridges across sectors to achieve health for all in Ontario. Moving upstream is an idea whose time has come.
Register before February 14, 2006 at: www.opc.on.ca
“Moving Upstream Together” Conference
c/o Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
180 Dundas Street West, Suite 1900
Toronto ON M5G 1Z8
Phone: 416-408-2249 ext. 224 or 1-800-397-9567 ext. 224
Fax: 416-408-2122
Email: movingupstream@opc.on.ca
***** CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS *****
COMPAS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
July 5-6, 2006, Oxford, England
Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2006
Call for proposals for papers that are relevant to the theme:
“International Labour Migration: In Whose Interests?”
The papers should fall broadly within the key questions to be explored in the conference:
* What are the processes driving and shaping international labour migration? What are the impacts of international labour migration on receiving countries, migrants and their countries of origin?
* What should be the objectives of labour migration policies? How should the interests of the receiving countries be balanced with those of migrants and their countries of origin?
* What policies and governance arrangements are best suited to effectively manage international labour migration?
For more detail on the conference and the call for papers
please see:
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/events/AC_call_for_papers.shtml
Extended abstracts of proposed papers (max. 500 words) are due by December 15,
2005. Please send submissions via email to Emma Newcombe:
emma.newcombe@compas.ox.ac.uk
Emma Newcombe, Information Manager
COMPAS (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society)
University of Oxford, 58 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6QS
Phone: +44 (0) 1865 274566 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 274718
www.compas.ox.ac.uk
***** CERIS WORKING PAPER AND POLICY MATTERS
SERIES *****
WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 41
Canadian ‘Experiments’ in Diversity: The Case of Immigrants with Engineering Backgrounds who Settle in Ontario
By Gurmeet Bambrah
Submissions to the Working Paper series, based on research in the fields of immigration and settlement studies, from faculty, graduate students, and members of community organizations are most welcome.
The current editor for the series is Dr. Michael Doucet, Department of Geography, Ryerson University, Email: mdoucet@ryerson.ca Phone: 416-979-5000 ext. 6174 Fax: 416-979-5362
Manuscripts, in both digital and hard copy form, should be sent to the editor in WordPerfect format, if possible. An abstract of 100 to 200 words and a list of key words must be provided with each manuscript. If accepted for publication, new Working Papers will be both printed and posted to the CERIS Virtual Library. The copyright for each Working Paper remains with the author(s).
Copies of recently published CERIS Working Papers may be ordered through the CERIS Office at $10.00 each plus postage. Previously published Working Papers can be downloaded from the Virtual Library on our website: http://ceris.metropolis.net/Virtual%20Library/VLFrame_E.html
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POLICY MATTERS NO. 22
Impact of Race and Immigrants Status on Employment Opportunities and Outcomes in the Canadian Labour Market
By Cheryl Teelucksingh and Grace-Edward Galabuzi
The research draws attention to racial discrimination in employment in Canada, and discusses the impact on the status of racialized groups in the Canadian labour market. Racial discrimination occurs in Canada in at least two forms, economic discrimination (when employers make generalized assumptions about the worth of racialized employees), and exclusionary discrimination (when members of a racialized group are not hired, paid equally or promoted regardless of their skills and experience). Recognizing the growth of the racialized population of Canada, the report emphasizes the concern about hierarchical structures affecting the distribution of opportunity in the labour market and argues that this growth in the racialized population makes the issue of racial discrimination one of great importance. If the racialized and immigrant populations of Canada do not have equal access to the labour market, Canada will not reap the benefits of the potential of this growing proportion of its population.
For more detailed analysis, see: Cheryl Teelucksingh and Grace-Edward Galabuzi, “Working Precariously: The impact of race and immigrant’s status on employment opportunities and outcomes in Canada,” Directions, 2(1), 2005: 15-52.
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POLICY MATTERS NO. 23
Social Inclusion of Newcomers to Canada: An Information Problem?
By Nadia Caidi and Danielle Allard
This paper examines how information service providers, particularly libraries, may assist effectively in meeting the information needs of immigrants. In order to understand information practices of immigrants and cater to their needs, a holistic approach is advocated that encompasses a closer examination of theories and principles of social inclusion and social capital in addition to information seeking behaviour. Only through this holistic overview can one apprehend the role that information plays in the life world of immigrants at various stages of their integration into their adopted society. The issues raised have implications for frontline information providers as well as for policymakers interested in programs, policies and funding priorities concerning information provision and access strategies that enable social inclusion of newcomers and longer established immigrants into the social fabric of Canada.
For more detailed analysis, see: Nadia Caidi and Danielle Allard, “Social Inclusion of Newcomers to Canada: An Information Problem?,” Library & Information Science Research, 27(3), 2005: 302-324.
***** CERIS HOLIDAY CLOSING *****
CERIS will be closed as of 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 and will reopen on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 9:00 a.m.
****NEW DOCUMENTS AND DATA IN THE CERIS RESOURCE CENTRE ***
2004 OFFICIAL VERSION OF LANDING FILES
(provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada)
The 2004 landing files provide immigrant landing information from 1999 to 2004, one file per year and all in one big file. The dbf (foxpro format) and sdf (text format) are the two available formats. To request this data CD, please follow the request/approval procedure on CERIS website at: http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/research-policy/Metropolisdata/eligibility_request.htm
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For a list of new
documents in the CERIS Resource Centre, please go to:
http://ceris.metropolis.net/research-policy/NewdocList/newdoc list.htm
For further information, contact Rong Wu at 416-946-8825 or ceris.resourcecentre@utoronto.ca
*****CERIS VIRTUAL LIBRARY*****
Please go to http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/frameset_e.html and click on "Virtual Library" on the left navigation.
***** INTERNET RESOURCES *****
** Pay Equity: An Overview For Employees **
Pay Equity is equal pay for work of equal value. You are covered if you work for any public sector employer or a private sector company with 10 or more employees in Ontario.
http://www.settlement.org/sys/guides_detail.asp?faq_id=4000682
** How do I choose the best post-secondary institution for me? **
While there are no real rules about how to choose a school and a program, we provide some general guidelines that can help make the process easier. Updated with links to Maclean's and the Globe and Mail’s 2005 University rankings.
http://www.settlement.org/sys/faqs_detail.asp?faq_id=4000431
** New Languages in the Newcomer's Guide to Education **
We have just added the Punjabi version of the Newcomer's Guide to Secondary School (Public) and a French version of the Secondary School (Catholic) Guide. There are many other languages posted too.
http://www.settlement.org/edguide/
Please visit www.settlement.org for more information and helpful resources.
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The development of our Resource Centre and Web Site Virtual Library depends on donations of paper and disk copies of relevant research documents from CERIS affiliates and partners. You can help us build up these valuable resources!
The Toronto CERIS office: Phone 416-946-3110 Fax 416-971-3094
The York CERIS office: Phone 416-736-5223 Fax 416-736-5752 Email ceris@yorku.ca
Visit the CERIS Website: http://ceris.metropolis.net
Visit the York CERIS Website: http://www.yorku.ca/ceris
Visit the National Metropolis Website: http://canada.metropolis.net
If you would like to add an event to the listings in the Bulletin, please forward the complete information to Julie Young at the Toronto CERIS office by fax or email: ceris.reception@utoronto.ca
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