CERIS MONTHLY BULLETIN Back Issues

April 2009

Issue No. 110

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, and its working committees.

The deadline for information to be included in the next Monthly Bulletin is April 29, 2009.

v CERIS Meetings

v CERIS Seminars

v News from CERIS, CERIS Researchers, and Partners

v Public Announcements/Job Opportunities/Calls for Proposals

v CERIS Working Paper and Policy Matters Series

v New Documents in the CERIS Resource Centre & Online

v New Publications

v Internet Resources

***** CERIS MEETINGS *****

UPCOMING MEETINGS AT CERIS:

Friday, May 1st
Governance Board meeting 2:30 – 4:00 pm (Room 702)

Friday, June 5th
Governance Board meeting 2:30 – 4:00 pm (Room 702)

***** CERIS SEMINARS *****

Friday, May 1 12:00 – 2:00
Migration, Belonging, and Local Criminal Justice Practices

Justice Policing and Security Domain
Moderator: Dr. Ron Levi, Justice Policing and Security Domain Leader

Presenters:
Jennifer Ridgley, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Geography, University of Toronto;
Rashmee Singh, Ph.D. candidate, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto

Description:
Jennifer Ridgley’s paper on “Cities of Refuge: The Politics of Citizenship and Legality Surrounding Municipal Sanctuary Policies in the United States,” explores struggles over citizenship and legality through municipal sanctuary policies in the United States. At the height of the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s, over 26 local governments declared themselves Cities of Refuge for asylum seekers from Central America. Yet more recently, the legal and institutional vestiges of this movement have come into conflict with new forms of urban policing and surveillance directed at migrants.

Rashmee Singh’s paper on “Disrupting the Local and Global? Cultural Translation in the Diaspora,” draws on interviews with immigrant settlement workers and violence against women counselors working for community organizations throughout Toronto. Her emphasis is on the work of these diasporic actors in negotiating the middle ground between immigrant victims and the criminal justice system, including how diasporic cultural translators repackage Canadian legal norms to immigrant communities, and in so doing potentially disrupt binaries of the “local” and “global.”
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Friday, May 8 12:00 – 2:00
Public Discourse and Migration Restrictions: Analyses of Exclusionary Policies in Canada and Russia

Moderators: Dr. Laura Simich, Health and Wellbeing Domain Leader
Dr. Ron Levi, Justice, Policing and Security Domain Leader

Presenters:
Valentina Capurri, Ph.D. Candidate in History, York University.
Title of presentation:
Public Discourses around the Provision of Medical Inadmissibility in the Canadian Immigration Act

Matthew Light, Assistant Professor, Centre of Criminology and Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), University of Toronto
Title of presentation:
Are Ethnic Chechens Citizens of the Russian Federation? Official Status, Unofficial Practice, and Public Discourse in Contemporary Russia
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Friday, May 15 12:00 – 2:00
Human Services in the Outer Suburbs: An Evaluation in York Region

Presenters:       Lucia Lo, York University
                        Paul Anisef, York University
                        Ranu Basu, York University
                        Valerie Preston, York University
                        Shuguay Wany, York University
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Friday, May 22 12:00 – 2:00
Peel Immigration Papers

Moderator: Dr. Sandeep Kumar Agrawal, Welcoming Communities: Building Capacities in Regions, Cities & Neighbourhoods Domain Leader

Presenters:
    Kumar Agrawal, Graduate Program Director (Int), MPl Program
    Interim Associate Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University
    Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Administration, Ryerson University (to be confirmed)
    Michelle Goldberg, Researcher and Instructor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
    Ilene Hyman, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
    Norm McLeod, Manager of Strategic Social Policy, Region of Peel
    Cheryl Teelucksingh, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University.
    Sarah Wayland, Wayland Consulting.

The role of municipal/regional governments in creating an integrated society is increasingly being recognized. The Regional Municipality of Peel recently commissioned a series of 5 discussion papers to review existing research to assist in the formulation of strategies, practices and services to support the successful integration of newcomers. The papers focused on:
    -         Human service needs (Discussion Paper #1)
    -         Geographic and neighbourhood considerations (Discussion Paper #1)
    -         Health assets and risks (Discussion Paper #2)
    -         Community social capital and networks (Discussion Paper #3)
    -         Lifecycle needs e.g, children, youth, couples, and seniors (Discussion paper #4)
    -         Human capital assets of newcomer parents and implications for their children (Discussion Paper #5)

Highlights from the discussion papers will be presented and an interactive discussion will follow.

Location for seminars: Unless announced otherwise, all CERIS Seminars take place at 246 Bloor Street West, 5^th Floor, Room 548 (St. George Subway Station).

The seminars are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP to ceris.office@utoronto.ca or call (416) 946-3110.

For previous seminar presentation materials, please visit the CERIS website at: www.ceris.metropolis.net

***** NEWS FROM CERIS, CERIS RESEARCHERS AND PARTNERS *****

CERIS RESEARCH DOMAIN LEADER:
ECONOMIC AND LABOR MARKET INTEGRATION DOMAIN
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Deadline: April 30, 2009

Nominations are open for the position of CERIS Research Domain Leader for the Economic and Labour Market Integration domain that examines the economic integration of immigrants. Research in this domain focuses on: the ways in which immigrants’ skills, credentials and work experience are evaluated in the Canadian labour market; the career trajectories and workplace experiences of immigrants; economic outcomes for immigrants, including the incidence and causes of immigrant poverty; the role of immigrant entrepreneurship; and the roles of various institutions as intermediaries in immigrants’ economic integration. Processes beyond the workplace, such as gendered domestic roles and transnational familial commitments, are seen as important contexts for understanding the experiences of immigrants in the Canadian economy. Using both quantitative and qualitative analysis, research in this domain will help to inform policy-makers, academics, professional service providers, and community organizations.

The Domain Leader is responsible for stimulating research initiatives by affiliated CERIS researchers and developing and sustaining a network of community and researchers in each domain. This involves – but is not limited to:
- circulating relevant funding opportunities to domain members
- coordinating and leading responses to external funding opportunities
- providing assistance with research implementation of domain members
- organizing annually at least one CERIS seminar relevant to the domain
- stimulating pan-Canadian research in the domain
- organizing sessions for domain affiliates at the national Metropolis meetings
- facilitating dissemination of relevant research
- developing and maintaining a listserv for the domain

The work also entails fielding of questions from researchers and community partners working in the domain, referring media inquiries to relevant domain experts, and the creation of network opportunities that help to link and stimulate discussion among academics, community partners, policy-makers, and funders. Special attention should be given to facilitating the training of graduate students affiliated with the Centre, and to the facilitation of academic/community partnerships in all of the Centre’s work. The organization and adjudication of CERIS’ Request for Proposals competition is also a primary responsibility.

The term of appointment is three years with possibility of renewal. Each year, the domain leader will receive a full-year course release.

Nominations for the positions may be made by any CERIS-affiliated member; self-nominations are also encouraged. Nominations should include a brief expression of interest and a CV. Normally, two domain leaders come from each of the three founding universities, so qualified faculty members from York University are preferred.

Nominations should be sent to the CERIS office (ceris.office@utoronto.ca) no later than Thursday, April 30, 2009.

For more information about the domain, please see the CERIS website:
http://ceris.metropolis.net/research-policy/research_content/domain_e.html
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CERIS 2009 GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Deadline: May 20, 2009 (4 pm)

Award Announcement/Call for Applications
CERIS invites applications from graduate students at both the Masters and Doctoral levels of study, for a Graduate Student Research Award to support research related to immigration and settlement. Ten awards of up to $500.00 will be made to support significant research projects on immigration and settlement issues with an Ontario research focus. Applications from all fields and disciplines of study are welcome.

Eligibility and Criteria
Applicants must be registered graduate students at an Ontario University. The award may be used to support research undertaken to fulfill graduate program requirements (e.g. Research Paper, dissertation), a conference presentation or journal submission. The research tasks which this award supports must be completed by 15 March 2010.

Applications will be reviewed by a committee consisting of Domain Leaders, CERIS Director(s), CERIS community partners and members of the CERIS Governance Board and evaluated according to the following criteria: research significance, methodology, and policy relevance.

Eligible expenses include: travel for data collection, materials for participant recruitment, translation and/or interpretation, transcription, organization of focus groups and interviews, respondent honoraria, photocopying of data sets or relevant literature, data acquisition, software, statistical data runs, and other expenses related directly to the completion of the proposed research. Conference travel costs, other dissemination costs, and general living expenses are not eligible for award funding.

Required Information

Applicants must complete an application form and a proposal which includes the following in no more than two pages with 12 point font and one inch margins:

• Title of the proposed research project.
• Identification of the project’s research significance.
• Identification of project methodology.
• Identification of the project’s policy or practice relevance – for governments and other institutions
• A budget showing how the research award will be used.
• A bibliography listing five relevant references

The application form is available on the CERIS website: ceris.metropolis.net. In addition, applicants must submit copies of their most recent undergraduate or graduate transcripts and their CV.

Reporting/Dissemination Requirements
Award recipients must submit a report identifying how funds were expended, and summarizing research results. This report is required no later than 31 March 2010. To promote recognition of research undertaken by award recipients, each award recipient will be required to disseminate their research findings in at least one CERIS-supported venue. These include: presentation of research in a CERIS-organized seminar in Toronto, submission of a paper to the CERIS Working Paper series, or the annual CERIS Graduate Student Conference.

How/When to Apply
Applications should be submitted in hard copy and sent to:
Dr. Joanna Anneke Rummens, CERIS Director, University of Toronto
CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre
246 Bloor Street West (7th Floor)
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1V4

Applications must arrive no later than 4PM, Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of June. Awards will be granted from July 1, 2009 to March 15, 2010. For more information, contact Bethany Osborne at 946-3114 or
bethany.osborne@utoronto.ca.
To view the complete announcement and to download the Application Form, visit our website:
http://ceris.metropolis.net/
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14th International Metropolis Conference
National Responses to Cultural Diversity
14 - 18 September 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark

A hallmark of each International Metropolis Conference is its workshop program. Workshops are selected from an open call for proposals and are adjudicated according to the strength of the proposal, best fit with conference themes, and representation of a broad range of perspectives from various countries, sectors and backgrounds. We strongly recommend workshop organizers review the attached document for guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions related to the workshop programme at international Metropolis conferences. This document will be an indispensable resource for workshop organizers.

For more information about the 14th International Metropolis conference, we invite you to visit www.metropolis2009.org. Please note that the plenary programme is in draft format and will change.

**** PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS****

Social Inclusion for Health and Well Being in Program Evaluation
York Institute for Health Research
Thursday April 30, 2009, 8:30am-5:00pm, York University

York Institute for Health Research (YIHR) is pleased to announce a one-day conference on social inclusion in program evaluation. This conference is designed to promote program evaluation capacity building, showcase innovative programs, and develop partnerships for future research and program alliances.

For more information: York Institute for Health Research (YIHR)
York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto ON M3J 1P3
www.yorku.ca/yihr
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Marginalized Youth and Contemporary Educational Contexts
May 13th, 2009 ~
MaRS Discovery District, Toronto, Ontario

Sponsored by the Community Health Systems Resource Group,
Hospital for Sick Children ~ Collaborative Research Symposium Series

Symposium goals:
• What are the main dilemmas facing marginalized youth and schools?
• What do we know about young people in their emerging global contexts and how have we come to know it? (our theories, disciplines, evidence and methods)
• What do we know about youth in contemporary education and how have we come to know what we know about (our theories, disciplines, evidence and methods)
• Where do the intersections of youth culture and education occur?
• What is still to be known? How shall we come to know it?
• How has story telling and narrative allowed deeper understanding of these issues?

Marginalized Youth and Contemporary Educational Contexts is part of a series of events focusing on collaborative community research as a systemic approach to changing front-line practice hosted by the Community Health Systems Resource Group (CHSRG) at The Hospital for Sick Children. This will be an interactive and dialogue-based public symposium. The three main key note discussions will include experts in marginalized youth culture, education as it relates to the lives of young people, and researchers/practitioners who work with and for young people in narrative and art-informed ways.

Key Note Panel and Discussions will include leading experts from Canada and United Kingdom including:
Dr. Andy Furlong - Sociologist of Youth Cultures, University of Glasgow
Dr. Bruce Ferguson - Director, CHSRG, Sick Kids and University of Toronto
Ms Penny Milton - Canadian Education Association
Dr. George Dei – OISE/ University of Toronto
Dr. Michael Chandler -University of British Columbia, Distinguished CIHR & MSFHR Investigator
Dr. Molly Andrews - Centre for Narrative Research, UK
Dr. Katherine Boydell - Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Dr. Ardra Cole - Centre for Arts-informed Research
Dr. Joanne Anneke Rummens – Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto

The symposium will be hosted by Dr. Kate Tilleczek, Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Cultures and Transitions at the University of Prince Edward Island and Research Scientist with the Community Health Systems Resource Group at The Hospital for Sick Children.

Youth Narratives
Young people will be invited to submit narratives (poetic, story, visual) to be presented at the conference. These narratives will be selected for publication and performed at the conference. Young people will also be invited to participate in a story telling workshop.

Who should participate?
The discussions will be of relevance to researchers, educators, practitioners in public health and mental health, youth workers, policy makers, administrators, and graduate student trainees. The presentations will enable information sharing and discussions around the experience of marginalized youth in education. The conference will incorporate the lives of youth through their stories and experiences through photographic and oral narratives.

For more information and registration, visit: www.chsrgevents.ca
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Language and Reading Comprehension for Immigrant Children Conference (LARCIC)
Toronto, May 27-29, 2009

The conference will center on four interrelated themes: cognitive and linguistic aspects, instructional/educational strategies, socio-cultural factors, and the impact of research in these areas on policy making. The conference intends to facilitate communication and collaboration between researchers, educational leaders, and policy makers. Researchers, policy-makers, educational leaders, and graduate students from different countries will come together to discuss issues pertinent to increasing reading comprehension and enhancing academic achievement among immigrant students at the elementary and secondary level.

For more information about the LARCIC conference, visit our website and contact the conference facilitator Jason Wen at larcic.conf@oise.utoronto.ca

View Conference Details
http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/LARCIC/LARCIC
http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/LARCIC/
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FORCED MIGRATION AND SHIFTING BORDERS
The 2nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced
Migration Studies (CARFMS)
University of Ottawa, June 1-3, 2009

This conference brings together academics, activists, NGOs, policy makers, government representatives, and forced migrants themselves from a wide array of disciplinary and regional backgrounds in order to discuss diverse issues related to forced migration within and across borders. We invite participants from a range of perspectives to engage in a series of interdisciplinary dialogues in order to explore, debate and understand the varied aspects of forced migration. The conference will feature keynote and plenary speeches from leading figures in the field while panels will explore a number of sub-themes and important issues outlined below. We invite proposals for individual papers as well as organized panels structured around three broad sub-themes:

1) Forced Migration, Global Politics and the International Arena
2) Settlement, Security and Social Justice
3) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Forced Migration Research

For further information, please contact Pablo Bose at carfms2009@gmail.com
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Summer Course on Refugee Issues

Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
June 6 – 14, 2009

The Summer Course on Refugee Issues is an internationally acclaimed eight-day course for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced migration. It serves as a hub for researchers, students, service providers and policy makers to share information and ideas.
The Summer Course provides an interdisciplinary, interactive and experiential approach to the study of forced migration. Through attending lectures and related small group sessions, course participants develop a deepened understanding of the political, economic, social and cultural contexts of forced migration, and the major state and non-state institutions involved in refugee protection and advocacy.
The program uniquely includes simulated refugee hearings held at the Immigration and Refugee Board, Toronto. Participants will have also an opportunity during the course for structured networking and idea collaboration through participation in a theme-based small group session. All participants who complete the full course receive a York University Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course Certificate.

Preliminary topics for the 2008 Summer Course are:
root causes of forced migration • refugee status and definition • the global refugee regime • international human rights • humanitarian assistance • externalization of asylum • refugee resettlement • intersectionality and forced migration • Canadian refugee determination • security and interdiction • internally displaced persons • protracted refugee situations • development induced displacement • environmental displacement • the future of forced migration

The students and requirements
The Summer Course is designed for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced migration. Participants typically include government officials, non-government organization personnel, university faculty, and graduate students. Applicants must have either some academic or practical background in forced migration. If the background is strictly academic, a first degree is required. (Undergraduate students may apply to the course if they are completing their degree prior to the course start date.) Applicants must have English proficiency.

Dates: June 6 – 14, 2009
Times: Full course days will run 8:30 am – 5:00 pm. Opening reception and registration is in the afternoon of June 6.

Course Fee: $975 (Canadian) After February 28, 2009: $1100 (Canadian)

Forms and Information may be accessed from http://www.yorku.ca/crs/summer.htm
Application materials may be submitted either electronically, by fax or by mail to:

Irene Connie Tumwebaze
Summer Course Coordinator
Centre for Refugee Studies York University, Suite 315, York Lanes
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Phone: 416-7362100 Ext.55423 Fax: 416-736-5837 E-mail: summer@yorku.ca

Further questions may also be addressed to Irene Connie Tumwebaze, Summer Course Coordinator, at the above location.
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New Graduate Course – Summer 2009:
GS DVST 5123. 3.0 – Forced Migration and Refugee Issues
Course Director: Wenona Giles

Calendar course description: This course examines contemporary issues related to refugee and forced migration movements from a critical development studies perspective. Drawing on Canadian and international academic and field-based experts, the course explores political, economic, social and cultural contexts of forced migration, and major state and non-state institutions involved in refugee protection and advocacy, nationally and globally.

The four ‘book-end’ seminars will focus on: theories of exile, displacement, nationalism, statelessness, and conflict and will be used to theoretically contextualize the content of the CRS Summer School guest lectures. The CRS Summer School guest lecture topics include: root causes of forced migration, refugee status and definition, the global refugee regime, international human rights, gender relations, humanitarian assistance, the externalization of asylum, refugee resettlement, Canadian refugee determination processes (including a simulated refugee hearing at the Immigration and Refugee Board in Toronto), security and interdiction, internally displaced persons, protracted refugee situations, development induced displacement, environmental displacement.

Evaluation:                                                                                Percentage
Research Proposal (written & verbal):                                       20%
Essay (approx 25- pages):                                                        50%
Seminar and CRS Summer Course Participation:
(students should be prepared to discuss all the readings)            30%

Please note that this course is built around the CRS Summer Course on Forced Migration – with 4 -5 additional seminar meetings, including those listed below.
Course Dates:
1. Thursday May 28, 2009 (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
2. Thursday June 4, 2009 (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
3. Friday June 5, 2009 (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
4. Sunday June 7- Sunday June 14, 2009 – CRS Summer Course - Location TBA
5. Thursday June 18, 2009 (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)

Course kits will be available for purchase from Michele Millard,
Centre for Refugee Studies, 321 York Lanes
To register, please go to:
https://w2prod.sis.yorku.ca/Apps/WebObjects/cdm.woa/24/wo/vGq2v97kt1Wq1tFxYNVLRg/2.1.81.7
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Canadian Refugee Health Conference
November 24-25, 2009
University of Toronto Conference Centre
89 Chestnut Street,
Toronto, Ontario
Website: http://www.canadianrefugeehealth.ca/

For Information:
Canadian Refugee Health Conference
c/o Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
500 University Avenue, Suite 650 Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V7
Phone: 416.978.2719 Toll Free: 1.888.512.8173 Fax: 416.946.7028
E-mail: info-int0933@cmetoronto.ca

****CALLS FOR PROPOSALS****

Call for Papers on Participatory Health Research
Nursing Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Policy and Healthcare
Deadline: 1 October 2009

A special upcoming issue of Nursing Inquiry will be devoted to participatory health research. Submissions are invited that address conceptual, methodological, and pragmatic dimensions of participatory forms of health research. The goal of this special issue is to advance a better understanding of participatory health research across different disciplines and audiences (e.g. educators, students, health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers). Examples of areas of focus include (but are not limited to) the following:

• In what ideological and conceptual forms does participatory health research manifest? For example, participatory research, action research, community-based participatory research, etc?
• If and how conceptual variations of participatory health research influence research design and methodology?
• What are the advantages of conducting participatory health research? What are the challenges to engaging in it? For example, vis-a-vis community-academic collaboration, institutional ethical approval, research funding, PhD thesis dissertations, impact on practice and policy.
• How has participatory health research been applied in different places and settings, and with diverse populations? For example, community agencies, health care institutes (primary to tertiary), specific groups as well as population level health initiatives.

While reporting of specific research findings is not the intention of this special issue, the above areas of focus may be (and in fact are encouraged to be) elaborated through examples from completed or ongoing research.

Nursing Inquiry is an international peer-reviewed journal. All submissions should be made online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nin. For author guidelines and information on online submission, please see above journal website or contact nijournal.nursing@utoronto.ca.

For inquiries on the special issue on participatory health research, please contact guest editor. The closing date for submissions is 1 October 2009. The intended publication date for the special issue is Fall 2010.

Nazilla Khanlou, RN, PhD
Guest Editor
nkhanlou@yorku.ca

**** JOB OPPORTUNITIES ****

PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR POSITION
Local Immigration Partnership Project (LIP)
Contract Position to March 31, 2010

The Community Social Planning Council of Toronto is a non-profit community organization committed to independent social planning at the local and city-wide levels. We work to improve the quality of life for all people in Toronto through community capacity building, community education and advocacy, policy research and analysis, and social reporting.

The Community Social Planning Council of Toronto is looking for a full-time Project Co-ordinator (35 hours per week).

The Project Leader is responsible for the leadership and coordination for the Local Immigration Partnership Program (LIP), an active and emerging partnership of 40 organizations, community groups and networks focused on the successful settlement and integration of newcomers in York South-Weston neighbourhoods. The staff hired will help plan, administer, evaluate and advocate for the project initiatives and deliverables, and provide leadership in council facilitation, budgeting, research and reporting. The Project Co-coordinator reports to the Project Leader on a day-to-day basis and works closely with the LIP project and the Partnership Council to create and implement a settlement strategy and settlement plan.

Salary range: $47,500 - $63,250 plus benefits.
The deadline for applications is May 4 at 4:00 p.m., 2009.
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PROGRAM ASSISTANT POSITION
Local Immigration Partnership Project (LIP)
Contract Position to March 31, 2010 (21 hours/week)

This position assists and supports the Local Immigrant Partnership Project (LIP), an active and emerging partnership of 40 organizations, community groups and networks focused on the successful settlement integration of newcomers in York South-Weston neighbourhoods. Reporting to the Project Leader, supports the development of settlement strategies and settlement plans.

Salary range: $34,000 - $46,500 pro-rated to 21 hours per weeks plus benefits.
The deadline for applications is May 4 at 4:00 p.m., 2009.
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Interested candidates are asked to submit a resume and covering letter outlining how they meet the above criteria to:
Maria Serrano, Director of Operations
Community Social Planning Council of Toronto
1001 – 2 Carlton St., Toronto, Ontario M5B 1J3
Fax: 416-351-0107 E-mail: cspc@cspc.toronto.on.ca

To view the complete job postings from Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, please visit:
http://socialplanningtoronto.org/councilnews/contract-positions-available-at-the-council/
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I am coordinating a research project on World Muslim Demographics and am looking for a Canadian academic (social scientist sociologist/demographer/statistician/economist) who could write a paper on Demography of Canadian Muslims using census and survey data which are available from Statistics Canada. This will later be published as a book chapter. The paper has to be completed by the end of Summer 2009 and an honorarium of US $ 3,000 will be paid to the author. For further information, please contact: Dr. Mehtab S. Karim, Senior Research Advisor, Pew Research Center, Washington DC, mkarim@pewforum.org
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The Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies (JEAPS) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published that will be monthly by Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/JEAPS). JEAPS is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject.

Editors and reviewers
JEAPS is seeking qualified researchers to join its editorial team as editors, subeditors or reviewers. Kindly send your resume to JEAPS@acadjourn.org

Bazim Adigwerex, Editorial Assistant
Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies
E-mail: JEAPS@acadjourn.org www.academicjournals.org/JEAPS

**** CERIS WORKING PAPER AND POLICY MATTERS SERIES ****

WORKING PAPERS

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.

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://www.ceris.metropolis.net/research-policy/wkpp_list.htm
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POLICY MATTERS

Previously published Policy Matters can be downloaded from the CERIS website at:
www.ceris.metropolis.net.

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

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.

**** NEW PUBLICATIONS ****

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health with the Mental Health Commission of Canada have just completed a report entitled “Understanding the issues, best practice and options for service development to meet the needs of ethno-cultural groups, immigrants, refugees, and racialized groups”. This report seeks to understand the issues related to mental health services in Canada for ethno-racial and immigrant populations. It acknowledges what services are currently available and where the gaps are. The report also explores what the barriers and facilitators of care are for these populations. The MHCC is currently developing a National Strategy for mental health and this report will be a part of that.

At the conclusion of this report are several recommendations. It is imperative that we receive feedback on these recommendations to ensure we have not missed pertinent information. This link
(http://www.camh.net/Public_policy/Public_policy_papers/consultation_mhcc_feb09.html) will take you to the report and to the e-consultation where you can respond to the recommendations.

**** INTERNET RESOURCES ****

NEW ON SETTLEMENT.ORG: PROBLEM GAMBLING - A GUIDE FOR FAMILIES

If you have a family member who has problems with gambling, this guide is for you. It has information about the signs of problem gambling, and how you can help. You can get it in more than 10 languages. The guide was produced by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
http://www.settlement.org/sys/library_detail.asp?doc_id=1004798
For more information about mental health and addictions, visit:
http://www.settlement.org/site/HE/911_mental.asp
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COMMUNITY RESOURCE: WEBSITE FOR NEWCOMERS TO TIMMINS
This website has information to help you and your family settle in the City of Timmins. It includes information about employment, industry, education, housing, health, education and more.
http://settlement.org/sys/link_redirect.asp?anno_id=2008120
For more information about community resources in your area, visit:
http://www.settlement.org/site/REGIONS/
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Colleges Integrating Immigrants to Employment (CIITE) has just released two new research papers available online at http://www.ciite.ca/en_research.asp on Understanding the Employment Service Needs of Internationally Trained Immigrants and Understanding Ontario Colleges-Community Linkages. CIITE is a project of Ontario’s 24 publicly funded colleges, managed by CON*NECT Strategic Alliances and funded by the Government of Ontario. For more information visit http://www.ciite.ca.
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The website for the Nordic Migration Research organisation has now officially been launched. The address is:
http://nordicmigration.saxo.ku.dk. The website features information about membership and membership benefits, relevant research projects, activities, news and much more.

For further information, comments or questions, please contact:
Jane Finnerup Johnsen <janefj@hum.ku.dk>
Københavns Universitet
Det Humanistiske Fakultet
SAXO-Instituttet, Njalsgade 80, 2300 København S
www.saxo.ku.dk
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The United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) is launching a new tri-lingual Gender and Migration Virtual Community.

For more information please contact:
Laura Olsen ( lolsen@un-instraw.org )
Laura Olsen
Gender, Migration, Remittances and Development
UN-INSTRAW
Calle Cesar Nicolas Penson 102, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Tel. (++809) 6852111 ext.247 Fax (++809) 6852117 www.un-instraw.org

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DONATIONS NEEDED FOR RESOURCE CENTRE
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!

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre main office: Phone 416-946-3110 Fax 416-971-3094
CERIS office at York University: 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
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