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Announcing Changes at CERIS: Staff and Directors
Please join CERIS in welcoming new
directors and staff members. For more information, please click
here
to read the entire announcement.
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 Upcoming
Workshop: Producing and
Negotiating Precarious Migratory Status in Canada
September 16, 2010, 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 pm
International Conference Center
5th Floor, York Research Tower, York University
This seminar is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by September 12th to
migrationconf@gmail.ca
For more information, please view the program
here.
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Upcoming
Public Lecture: Understanding the
Labour Market Challenges Facing Canada's Recent Immigrants
An Analysis Comparing the Paths of
Immigrants and Canadian-Born Workers Into and Out of High-Wage Jobs
Using Data from Statistics Canada’s Long-Form Census and Labour Force
Survey.
Presenter: Prof. Mikal Skuterud
When:
Friday, September 17, 2010
1pm - 4pm
Where: Kitchener
City Hall Rotunda
For more information and to RSVP, please click
here to view the
flyer for this event.
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Upcoming Public Lectures at the
Centre for Refugee Studies and CERIS- Ontario Metropolis Centre
Economic and social integration of the
immigrant second generation in Canada
Prof. Jeffrey Reitz
Wed. November 3rd, 12:30 pm - 2:00pm,
519 York Research Tower, York University
Expectedly mobile? Korean entrepreneurship and immigrant generations
Prof. Ann H. Kim
Wed. December 1st, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm,
280N York Lanes, York University
For more information, please click
here.
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Call for
Papers -
People
and Politics: Interactions between citizens and the Canadian state
Centre for Canadian Studies,
Mount Allison University, March 3 - 5, 2011
For more information, please click
here.
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Ryerson
University Conference:
Migration and the Global City
October 29-31, 2010
Registration is now open! To register, visit:
http://www.riis.ryerson.ca/registration/index.html
Ryerson University is hosting a conference to launch its new Research
Institute on Immigration and Settlement (working title). Both the
conference and the institute are dedicated to advancing innovative and
interdisciplinary research from diverse critical and institutional
perspectives in the areas of immigration and settlement, international
migration, integration, and diaspora and refugee studies.
The conference will bring together immigration and settlement scholars,
graduate students, national, provincial and municipal policy makers,
regional non-government agencies and community representatives.
For more information, visit the conference website at:
http://www.riis.ryerson.ca/
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Upcoming
Conference on Resilience in Immigrants:
4th On
New Shores Conference 2010
Resilience of Immigrants: Coping with Stress in Various Cultural
Contexts
Peter Clark Hall, University Centre Centre,
University of Guelph, Sept. 30th - Oct. 1st, 2010
For more information, please click
here to view the conference program. For additional
details, please contact: Dr. Susan Chuang via e-mail at
schuang@uoguelph.ca or by phone
at
519-824-4120, ext. 58389
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Census Long Form: An open letter from the
Canadian network of Metropolis Centres
To read more about the proposed
elimination of the long form and the effects it would have on Metropolis
research, click here. For more
information from the Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative on the
effects the change would have on their projects, click
here.
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Immigrant
Seniors Project
Speaking With Seniors and Their
Families: A first-language investigation of the needs for holistic
approaches to service
Summary of findings of focus groups of
senior immigrant women and families who sponsor older immigrants are
available below in 13 different languages. These focus groups were part
of a larger project on immigrant seniors conducted by Dr. Kenise Murphy
Kilbride, CERIS Senior Scholar and Professor Emerita at Ryerson
University (kilbride@ryerson.ca).
Summary -
Arabic
Summary -
Chinese
(Simplified)
Summary -
Chinese
(Traditional)
Summary - English
Summary - Farsi
Summary - Gujarati
Summary - Korean
Summary - Punjabi
Summary -
Russian
Summary - Spanish
Summary - Tagalog
Summary - Tamil
Summary - Urdu
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Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative
TIEDI has published its latest Labour Market Update. The
report is available online at:
http://www.yorku.ca/tiedi/pubreports.html
Click
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Call for Graduate Student Papers
Migration and Settlement Research: Looking
Forward and Moving Ahead
Friday October 29, 2010
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
Deadline for abstracts is September 15th. For more information,
please click here.
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Call for Proposals: 4th Cycle of the National Metropolis Research
Competition
The Call for Proposals for the 4th Cycle of the National Metropolis
Research Competition is now available on the National Metropolis
website. Click
here to visit the site.
Information related to the areas of inquiry is available in the CFP.
This year's call is based on a theme as opposed to a specific question.
We hope this new approach to the CFP will generate a solid number of
proposals.
The application forms will be available on the SSHRC website as of June
29th (SSHRC link to be provided on the Metropolis page). Questions
related to this year's Call for Proposals can be directed to: Mika
Oehling at
Mika.Oehling@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca .
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Temporary
Foreign Workers in Canada:
Reports from the Community Research Symposium
and the CERIS blog!
Visit the new CERIS
The Ontario Metropolis Centre blog to comment on Permanently
Temporary, a report on Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada.
Permanently Temporary is the report of this year's community research symposium,
which was held on
February 4, 2010 at Metro Hall, Toronto. The symposium was
organized and hosted by Social Planning Toronto, Ontario Council of
Agencies Serving
Immigrants (OCASI), CERIS – the Ontario Metropolis Centre, and the City
of Toronto.
Click below to access the full
report as a pdf or view the report and panel presentations online:
Permanently Temporary (57 pages - pdf file)
View
the report online
Click
here
to visit the blog and comment!
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New paper -
The
Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Do Short-Term Economic Needs
Prevail over Human Rights Concerns?
To read this paper by Delphine Nakache and Paula J. Kinoshita, please
click
here.
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Graduate
Students: submit your research papers to CERIS The Ontario Metropolis
Centre
Are you writing an MRP, a thesis
or a dissertation related to immigration? You can add your work to
the CERIS website. For more information, please click
here.
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Graduate Student Research: Template for Research Summaries
For submission of Graduate Student research reports to CERIS - The
Ontario Metropolis Centre, please use the following template:
Research
Summary Template 2010
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New
article: Ethnic origin and increased risk for schizophrenia in
immigrants
This article, written by Marie-Jose Dealberto, MD, PhD, Queen's
University, was published in the May issue of the Journal Acta
Psychiatrica Scandinavica. The editor has granted free access to
this article and the accompanying editorial "Is it time to trial vitamin
D supplements for the prevention of schizophrenia?" by Australian
researcher John McGrath.
Article
Ethnic origin and
increased risk for schizophrenia in immigrants to countries of recent
and longstanding immigration
Editorial
Is it time to
trial vitamin D supplements for the prevention of schizophrenia?
For another version of this article, visit
http://www.medpie.com/Conversations/featured-articles/0427101-schizophrenia-immigrants-and-vitamin-d.html
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Peel Immigration Papers
With
funding support from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Region of
Peel in 2008 commissioned a series of discussion papers on key issues
related to immigration.
To view the announcement, please click
here. To view the papers, please visit the
Region of Peel's website:
http://www.peelregion.ca/social-services/discussion-papers.htm
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CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre SEMINARS
Please RSVP to
ceris.reception@utoronto.ca
or call (416) 736-5223
Click on the following links for:
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Seminar Presentation
Notes
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CERIS Events Calendar
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York Infrastructure
Project
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MA Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies @ Ryerson
University
Canada’s first graduate
program devoted to advanced study of immigration policy, services
and experience. The Master of Arts in Immigration and Settlement
Studies is an innovative new program that will explore immigration
trends, policies & programs in Canada from multi-disciplinary
perspectives. Available in both full-time and part-time study
options.
www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/immigration/ |
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Apply for
an Affiliation with CERIS
Click here for the
details
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CERIS POLICY MATTERS
accessible, concise information on current immigration research and
its implications for policy development
No. 42, January 2010
Do Not Disturb/Please
Clean Room: The invisible work and real pain of hotel housekeepers in
the GTA By Sirena Liladrie.
January 2010.
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CERIS WORKING PAPERS
reports on current immigration research and its implications for
policy and practice
Da, Wei-Wei and Alicia C. Garcia. 2010.
An Exploration of
Socio-cultural Adaptation and Changes in Quality of Life at Settlement
among Older Chinese Immigrants in Canada. CERIS Working Paper Series. No.
80. October 2010.
Lo, Lucia, Shuguang Wang, Paul Anisef,
Valerie Preston, and Ranu Basu. 2010.
Recent Immigrants’ Awareness
of, Access to, Use of, and Satisfaction with Settlement Services in York
Region. CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 79. September 2010.
Burke Wood, Patricia, and
Scot Wortley. 2010.
AlieNation: Racism,
Injustice and Other Obstacles to Full Citizenship. CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 78.
August
2010.
(Please right click to download the Working Paper)
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CERIS SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
C lick
here
to view slides from past presentations
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Activities Report to SSHRC -
Metropolis Project
Phase III (Year 3)
Click
here to read the 2009-2010 annual report
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Conference Notes:
CERIS 2010 Graduate Student Conference: (Re)
Imagining Canada: Migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
Click
here to view presentation slides
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CERIS
2009 Graduate Student Conference: Migration, Citizenship and Inclusion:
Re-Defining Boundaries and Borders
Click
here for presentation notes
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2008 CERIS Graduate Student Conference:
Rethinking the Mosaic: Immigration, Settlement, and the Lived Experience
Click
here
for papers from presenters
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9th National Metropolis Conference
Online Conference Proceedings
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access
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