CERIS EVENTS CALENDAR
Events Calendar in PDF Format
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
All CERIS Seminars take place from 12-2pm, in room 548 (5th floor) of 246 Bloor St. West (St. George Subway Station, Bedford Street Exit) unless otherwise announced.
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DATE and TIME |
UPCOMING EVENT |
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Tuesday |
CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre, Community
Arts Practice @York (CAP), and CERLAC- York University Present a Public
Seminar Latin American Artists in Toronto: Immigrants and Artists at Work Moderators: Deborah Barndt, Environmental Studies and CAP Luin Goldring, Sociology, CERLAC and CERIS Panelists: Rodrigo Barreda, Latin American Canadian Art Projects; Alberto Guevara, CAP Coordinator, Fine Arts; Mayahuel Tecozautla, MFA Dance, Fine Arts
Description: At the second CERIS seminar on issues related to
immigrants and the arts, panelists will reflect on their work as artists
in Canada, addressing: |
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Friday |
Governance Board meeting |
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Friday |
Governance Board meeting |
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DATE |
PAST EVENTS - 2010 |
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Friday (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION)
OISE, 252 Bloor St.
West, 5th Floor, |
Multiculturalism and Reconciliation Moderator:
Dr. Ron
Levi, Metropolis Justice, Policing and Security Priority Leader |
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Wednesday
(PLEASE NOTE LOCATION) |
CRS-CERIS 2010 Seminar Series Refugee Resiliency and Social Equity in Context Presenter: Laura Simich, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University of Toronto; Health and Wellbeing Domain Leader, Ontario Metropolis Centre
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Wednesday
(PLEASE NOTE LOCATION) |
CRS-CERIS 2010 Seminar Series Comparing Refugee Rights in Canada and the USA after 9/11: A Work in Progress
Presenter:
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Professor of International Law, Osgoode Hall Law
School, Faulty Member
of the Centre for Refugee Studies; and Faculty Associate of the Harriet
Tubman Institute for the Study of the African
Diaspora, York
University |
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Tuesday,
(PLEASE NOTE
LOCATION) |
CRS-CERIS 2010 Seminar Series |
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Wednesday
(PLEASE NOTE LOCATION) |
CRS-CERIS 2010 Seminar Series Presenter: Carl James, Professor, Faculty of Education, York University
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Wednesday (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION)
Room 519, YRT
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CRS-CERIS 2010 Seminar Series “Testimony regarding [the claimant's] sexual orientation was inconsistent and confusing to say the least”: Assessing bisexuality at Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board
Presenters: Viviane Namaste, Associate Professor and Research Chair, Simone de
Beauvoir Institute,
Concordia
University
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, 5th Floor, Room 548 (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs: Recent policy changes, comparative perspectives from Alberta, and implications for the GTA Moderator: Dr. Luin Goldring, CERIS Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration Domain Leader Presenters: Yessy Byl,
Temporary Worker Advocate, Alberta Federation of Labour and
Farrah Miranda,
Organiser, No One Is Illegal, Toronto |
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Thursday |
Community Symposium presented by CERIS-
The Ontario Metropolis Centre, Social Planning Toronto and OCASI Agenda Permanently Temporary: Temporary Foreign Workers and Canada’s Changing Attitude to Citizenship and Immigration 8:30 – Registration Location: Room 308/9 8:30 – Poster
set up 9:00 – Call to order, Welcome- Valerie Preston, CERIS York Director Location: Room 308/9 9:05 – Remarks from Citizenship and Immigration- Darlyn Mentor, Director, Settlement Programs, Citizenship and Immigration Canada 9:10- Remarks from the Province - Assistant Deputy Minister Katherine Hewson, MCI 9:15– Opening Remarks – David Miller: Diversity and Immigration 9:30- Keynote Introduction- Valerie Preston, CERIS York Director 9:35 – Keynote Theme: Permanently
Temporary: Temporary Foreign Workers and Canada’s Changing Attitude to
Citizenship and Immigration • Yessy Byl, Alberta Federation of Labour |
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, 5th Floor, Room 548 (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
Immigrant Children and Youth: The Role of the Ontario Provincial Advocate
Moderator:
Dr. Francis Hare, CERIS Family, Children and Youth Domain Leader |
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Wednesday
(PLEASE NOTE LOCATION) |
CRS-CERIS 2010 Seminar Series The Burden of Citizenship Presenter: Audrey Macklin, Professor of Law, University of Toronto
*** |
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Friday
Please Note Change of
Location: |
Findings from the New
Canadian Children and Youth Study Presenter: Dr. Morton Beiser, Professor of Distinction and Program Director, Culture, Immigration and Mental Health, Department of Psychology, Ryerson University |
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Friday |
Governance Board meeting |
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, 5th Floor, Room 548 (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
The Role of
Internet-based Social Support Networks in Immigrant Settlement
Presenters:
Julie Xiaoping Lin, Graduate Student, Immigration and Settlement
Studies Program at
Ryerson
University |
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Thursday, (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION)
Room 519, YRT |
CRS-CERIS 2010 Seminar Series The Deprofessionalized Filipino: Explaining Subordinate Labour Market Roles in Toronto Presenter: Philip Kelly, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Director, Graduate Program in Geography, York University Philip Kelly is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Geography at York University, Toronto. He also taught in the Southeast Asian Studies Program at the National University of Singapore, as well as visiting appointments at the University of London, the University of Toronto, the University of the Philippines, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has served as President of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (2007-09). He is the author of Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines (Routledge, 2000) and co-author (with Neil Coe and Henry Yeung) of Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (Blackwell, 2007). He is co-investigator in the SSHRC-MCRI project on the ‘Challenges of Agrarian Transitions in Southeast Asia’ (2005-2010), and Principal Investigator of a SSHRC Knowledge Impact in Society project called the 'Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative' (2008-2011). His recent research has focused on the labour market integration of Filipino immigrants in Toronto, the transnational linkages created with communities and families in the Philippines, and the process of socio-economic change in sending areas. More broadly, his research seeks to explore the intersection of economic processes in workplaces and labour markets with cultural processes of identity formation.
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DATE |
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, 5th Floor, Room 548 (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
Neighbourhoods and Violence Moderator: Dr. Ron Levi, CERIS Justice, Policing and Security Domain Leader Presenter: Dr. Sara Thompson, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Ryerson University |
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, 5th Floor, Room 548 (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
The Impact of the Current Economic Recession on Immigrants in Ontario and Canada Moderator: Dr. Tony Fang, CERIS Economic and Labour Market Integration Domain Leader
Presenters:
Jason Gilmore,
Senior Analyst, Labour Statistics Division, Statistics Canada and
Jamie Pitts,
Statistical Analyst, Immigration Policy Branch, Ontario Ministry of
Citizenship and Immigration Discussant: René Morissette, Leading Analyst and Assistant Director of Research, Statistics Canada |
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Wednesday (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION)
5th Floor Conference
Room, York Research Tower |
CRS-CERIS 2009-10 Autumn Seminar Series - Fictions of Justice: The ICC and Classifying Criminal Responsibility Presenter: Kamari Maxine Clarke, Professor, Anthropology, Yale University For additional information, please contact Oz Ziv at ozzyziv@yorku.ca |
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Friday |
CERIS Policy
Research Symposium AGENDA 11:00 - 11:40 Registration / Refreshments
11:40 - 11:50 Welcome:
Dr. Minelle Mahtani,
Chair of CERIS
11:50 - 12:10 Family, Children and Youth Domain - Presentation
of
12:10 -
12:20 Response to Priority Paper 12:20 - 12:50 Audience Response and Discussion 12:50 - 1:50 LUNCH
1:50 –
2:10
Justice, Policing and Security Domain
- Presentation
2:10
- 2:20 Response to Priority Paper 2:20 - 2:50 Audience Response and Discussion
2:50 - 3:00 Remarks: Dr. Alok Mukherjee,
Chair, Police Services 3:00 - 3:20 Summary of Discussion and Concluding Remarks: Dr. Mehru Ali, CERIS Director, Ryerson University 3:20 - 3:30 BREAK 3:30 - 5:00 CERIS Open House
3:30 - 3:35
Welcome/Intros: Dr. Minelle Mahtani,
Chair
of 3:35 - 4:05 Contributions to CERIS - Recognition Ceremony 4:05 - 4:55 Open House
4:55 - 5:00 Closing Remarks:
CERIS
Director, Dr. Valerie
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, 5th Floor, Room 548 (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
Research Inspired
Mental Health Innovation:
Presenters:
Dr.
Joanna Ochocka, Principle Investigator & Executive Director, Centre for
Community Based Research |
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Friday |
Governance Board meeting |
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Wednesday (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION)
5th Floor Conference
Room, York Research Tower |
CRS-CERIS 2009-10 Autumn Seminar Series - Persistent Precarity: The Long-term Impacts of Precarious Status and Work Presenter: Luin Goldring, Associate Professor, Sociology, York University For additional information, please contact Oz Ziv at ozzyziv@yorku.ca |
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, 5th Floor, Room 548 (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
Cultivating ‘integration’ through linguistic diversity: Toronto public elementary schools as re-definitional sites Presenter: Dr. Ranu Basu, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, York University Schools are not only places of education, but also places where the integration of communities is explored. In multicultural societies, publicly funded schools are places where the government actively promotes social cohesion. In the past few years, changes to education in Ontario have encouraged a concept of integration in the schools that can lead to assimilation and even alienation among students from diverse backgrounds. But, paradoxically, individual schools have also provided spaces where local communities can explore cultural differences, and negotiate a redefinition of integration. Language policies and practices in Toronto’s elementary schools have allowed citizens to discover very different forms of integration. |
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Wednesday November 11, 2009 12:30- 2:00pm (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION)
5th Floor Conference
Room, York Research Tower |
CRS-CERIS 2009-10 Autumn Seminar Series - The Enforcement Archipelago: Haunting and Asylum on Islands Presenter: Alison Mountz, 2009-2010 William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Fellow with the Canada Program at Harvard University and Associate Professor, Geography, Syracuse University For additional information, please contact Oz Ziv at ozzyziv@yorku.ca |
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Thursday, (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION) Auditorium (G162), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 252 Bloor St. West. (St. George subway station) |
Explaining the Deprofessionalized Filipino: Why Filipino Immigrants Get Low-Paying Jobs in Toronto Presenters: Philip F. Kelly, Mila Astorga-Garcia, Ricky Esguerra, and the Community Alliance for Social Justice, Toronto This seminar presents the findings of a research project examining the deprofessionalization of Filipino immigrants in Toronto. This report argues that a specific combination of factors shapes Filipino employment experiences. These factors relate to the financial situations of Filipino immigrants, the immigration programs used, the ways in which access to professions is regulated, the cultural connotations of being Filipino in Canada, and systemic racism and workplace discrimination. The results of the research will be summarized followed by discussion. |
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Wednesday October 21, 2009 12:30- 2:00pm
(PLEASE NOTE
LOCATION) |
CRS-CERIS 2009-10 Autumn Seminar Series - Spaces of Sub/urban/altern Cosmopolitanism: Exploring Geographies of Resistance in Scarborough, Ontario Presenter: Ranu Basu, Associate Professor, Geography, York University For additional information, please contact Oz Ziv at ozzyziv@yorku.ca |
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, 5th Floor, Room 548 (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
Autism through the lens of Canadian Immigrants
Moderator:
Presenters: This paper will examine the evidence supporting the popular notion that autism rates are higher in the Canadian immigrant population. Using recent biomedical theory and research it will explore the possible causes and reasons for this increase in rates among this growing population. It will explore the diagnostic implications and access to treatment issues through the lens of Canadian immigrant families. The paper will also examine the implications for Canadian immigration policies. |
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Wednesday
(PLEASE NOTE
LOCATION) |
CRS-CERIS 2009-10 Autumn Seminar Series - The Root Causes of Forced Migration in Uganda Presenter: Stephen Kaduuli, Demographer/Social Worker, Africa Leadership Institute, Visiting Research Practitioner, CRS For additional information, please contact Oz Ziv at ozzyziv@yorku.ca |
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Friday |
Governance Board meeting |
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Friday |
Art Work- Work in Art: Immigrants and the Arts
Moderator:
Panelists: Haema Sivanesan, Executive Director, South Asian Visual Arts Centre, SAVAC Katerina Atanassova, Curator, McMichael Canadian Art Collection Seanna Connell, Executive Director, Art Heart and Bethany J. Osborne, Ph.D. Student, OISE, University of Toronto
Description: |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board meeting |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West, 5th
Floor, Room 548 |
National Film Board Screening: Everybody’s Children Moderator: Dr. Francis Hare, CERIS Family, Children and Youth Domain Leader Presenter: Anne Woolger-Bell, Executive Director, Matthew House
National Film Board Screening A year in a lives of two African youths seeking asylum in Ontario: They arrive under age and alone, often traumatized and seeking asylum in a country completely alien to their own. In some provinces, specifically Ontario, these unaccompanied refugee minors have surprisingly no government system in place for their care after arriving. This documentary is a cinematic portrait of a year in the life of two such teenagers, Joyce and Sallieu. For more information about the film, please visit http://nfb.ca/everybodyschildren |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West, 5th
Floor, Room 548 |
Peel Immigration Papers
Moderator:
Presenters:
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: Highlights from the discussion papers will be presented and an interactive discussion will follow. |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West, 5th
Floor, Room 548 |
Human Services in the Outer Suburbs: An Evaluation in
York Region
Presenters:
Summary: |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West, 5th
Floor, Room 548 |
Public Discourse and Migration Restrictions: Analyses of Exclusionary Policies in Canada and Russia
Moderators:
Presenters:
Matthew Light,
Assistant Professor, Centre of Criminology and Centre for European,
Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), University of Toronto |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board meeting |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West, 5th
Floor, Room 548 |
Migration, Belonging, and Local Criminal Justice Practices Moderator: Dr. Ron Levi, CERIS Domain Leader, Justice, Policing and Security
Presenters: 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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Saturday 5:45pm-6:30pm WINE & CHEESE (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION)
Founders
Assembly Hall, Founders College, |
CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre
Annual Graduate Student
Conference -- Globalising and accelerating flows of international migrants raise important questions about the sovereignty of nation-states and the evolution of citizenship rights. There are growing numbers of temporary migrants, refugee claimants, and people without status whose precarious status challenges contemporary immigration, settlement, and citizenship policies and programs. International migrants are also living increasingly transnational lives, constructing new homes and new social identities that force us to re-evaluate the meanings of borders and border security, notions of inclusion and our understanding of belonging. This year’s conference will address issues related to these rapidly evolving migration patterns. CONFERENCE PROGRAM
8:45am – 9:15am WELCOME
(Founders Assembly Hall) 9:15am – 9:45am OPENING KEYNOTE (Founders Assembly Hall)
Phil Triadafilopoulos,
Professor,
Department of Political Science
University of
Toronto 9:45am – 10:00am Break 10:00am – 11:30am SESSION A (Concurrent workshops)
Workshop 1:
Economic Integration (305 York Lanes)
Workshop 2:
Justice and Policing (390 York Lanes) 11:30am-1:00pm LUNCH (Founders Assembly Hall)
* Job Opportunities
Discussion with Kay Blair, Executive Director, Community
MicroSkills Development Centre 1:00pm-2:30pm SESSION B (Concurrent workshops)
Workshop 3:
Citizenship
(305 York Lanes)
Workshop 4:
Health, Family & Youth (390
York
Lanes)
Workshop 5:
Refugees (372
York Lanes) 2:30pm-3:00pm BREAK 3:00pm-4:30pm SESSION C (Concurrent workshops)
Workshop 6:
Intersection of Sexuality (305
York
Lanes)
Workshop 7:
Language and Migration (390
York
Lanes)
Workshop 8:
Settlement and Welcoming Communities (372
York Lanes) 4:30pm-4:45pm BREAK 4:45pm-5:45pm CLOSING KEYNOTE (Founders Assembly Hall)
Sedef Arat-Koc,
Associate
Professor, Department of Politics and
Public
Administration
Ryerson University
5:45pm-6:30pm WINE &
CHEESE
(Founders Assembly Hall)
To Register:
http://ceris.metropolis.net/
(download and complete the registration form) |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board meeting |
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Friday
252 Bloor St. West, (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
Discursive Crossroads: Franco-Ontarian Schools and Immigration
Presenters:
Moderator:
This ethnographic study focused on the experiences of immigrant Francophone youth in a French-language school in Toronto, against the backdrop of school-level, school board and ministry policies regarding the integration of newcomers and the construction of identity. Two broad areas of inquiry emerging out of this fieldwork will be presented for discussion : 1) the implementation of ministerial and school-board policies that deal with language, culture and identity construction, and the consequences of this at the school-level, opening up spaces for the contestation of dominant discourses of Franco-Ontarian identity ; and 2) the processes of selection and access to schools and the valued resources (re)produced and circulated within are not equitable for everyone and can translate into social marginalisation and academic underachievement as well as barriered access to post-secondary education and to the workplace. |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West, 5th
Floor, Room 548 |
Health and Wellbeing Domain Seminar Organizer: Dr. Laura Simich, Health and Wellbeing Domain Leader Title 1: "Meeting the needs of Chinese immigrant families: The case of "satellite babies" Presenters 1 and 2: Dr. Yvonne Bohr, C.Psych., Department of Psychology Associate, LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence & Conflict Resolution York University, and Natasha Whitfield, MA, PhD Candidate, Clinical Developmental Program, Department of Psychology, York University Title 2: "Preschoolers in refugee & asylum seeking families: What mothers do when their child is ill?" Presenter 3: Dr. Olive Wahoush, RN, RSCN, MSc.,PhD., Post Doctoral Fellow: Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University & Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario The seminars are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board meeting |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West, 5th
Floor,
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Settlement and Leisure: Understanding terms and processes for newcomer youth Presenter: Lisa Quirke, PhD student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Moderator: Francis Hare, CERIS Domain Leader, Family, Children and Youth What role can leisure activities, including sport and recreation, play in the process of newcomer settlement? This seminar will explore this question by reviewing relevant concepts from the literature on immigration, settlement, leisure and the provision of municipal sport and recreation services to newcomers. Implications for leisure as part of the process of immigrant and refugee youth settlement will be examined. |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West,
Room 548, 5th Floor |
Evolution of Ethnic Enclaves in the Toronto Metropolitan Area, 2001-2006
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West,
Room 548, 5th Floor
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Local and Comparative Perspectives on Non-Citizen Voting
Presenters:
Moderator:
Voting is one of the key mechanisms for political participation and representation in liberal democracies. In most jurisdictions, voting is tied to national citizenship; as a result, newcomers who are not yet citizens are left out of the electoral political process. According to the “I Vote Toronto Campaign,” there are more than 200,000 permanent residents who live, work, play and pay taxes in Toronto. What are the implications for citizenship, civic engagement, and democratic governance of having a significant non-voting share of the population? What are the arguments in favour and against non-citizen voting in local elections? What can we learn from jurisdictions that have instituted voting rights for non-citizen residents? How has extending voting rights affected party politics and political representation? Does non-citizen voting lead to citizenship acquisition? What impact has non-citizen voting had on the wellbeing of newcomers and citizens, and on the health of the localities in which they live? What would it take to move toward expanding voting rights in Toronto? Panelists for this CERIS seminar will address these and related questions from several perspectives to contribute to and inform ongoing debates on this vital topic. |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board meeting |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West,
Room 548, 5th Floor
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At Risk in the Suburbs? Immigrants’ Housing Needs and Challenges in York Region
Presenters: Moderator: Uzo Anucha, York University |
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DATE |
PAST EVENTS - 2008 |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West,
Room 548, 5th Floor
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Health Domain Seminar and Reception Newcomer women's mental health: Stress, social support, and barriers to accessing primary mental health care for recent immigrant and refugee women in Toronto Moderator: Dr. Laura Simich, CERIS Health and Well-being Domain Leader Presenters: Dr Michaela Hynie, Associate Director, York Institute for Health Research, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, York University; Jackeline Barragan, Manager, Community Health, Black Creek Community Health Centre Presenter: Dr. Nazilla Khanlou, former CERIS Health Domain Leader, will return as a special guest with Dr. Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed to introduce their recent book, Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices (Berghahn Books), co-edited with Helene Moussa. Social reception for domain affiliates and seminar attendees to follow. |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board meeting |
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Friday
2:30 – 4:30pm 246 Bloor St. West, Room 548, 5th Floor (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit)
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Indian Immigrants in Canada: The Shades of Economic Integration Presenter: Dr. Sandeep Kumar Agrawal, Graduate Program Director (Int), Master of Planning Program, Interim Associate Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University
Moderator:
Dr.
Philip Kelly, CERIS Domain Leader, Economic and Labour Market
Integration |
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Friday 12:00 – 2:00pm 246 Bloor St. West, Room 548, 5th Floor (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit) |
An (un)documented tale: Examining the Roots of Community Fragmentation Presenter: Dr. Katherine Brasch, Visiting Scholar, RF Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto Moderator: Dr. Luin Goldring, CERIS Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration Domain Leader This paper explores instances of fragmentation within the Brazilian migrant community in Toronto. Case studies will focus discussion on how/why/when divisions and distinctions are constructed by both documented and undocumented migrants even within their own social networks. These strategic moments will be put in the context of community-building practices and integration strategies as well as the challenges and opportunities presented to newcomers in everyday life. |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board meeting |
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Friday 9:30 am – 3:30 pm 246 Bloor St. West, Room 518, 5th Floor
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CERIS Policy Research Symposium AGENDA 9:30 – 10:00 Registration / Refreshments
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome 10:10 – 12:15 Economic and Labour Market Integration Chair, Philip Kelly, CERIS Economic and Labour Market Integration Domain Leader 1) “Mobile Vulnerabilities, Transnational Risks: Temporary Agricultural Migrants in Ontario”
Discussion 2) “Causes and Consequences: Overeducated Canadian Immigrants”
Discussants 12:15 – 1:15 Lunch 1:15 – 3:20 Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration Chair, Luin Goldring, CERIS Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration Domain Leader 1) “Women’s identities and food: Practices of settlement and resistance in immigrant Toronto”
Discussion 2) “Multi-layered pathways of political incorporation: the case of Latin Americans in Toronto”
Discussants
3:20 – 3:30
Closing Remarks |
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Friday, September 26, 2008 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
246 Bloor Street West |
"I am a Bockenheimer": Local Identification as a Coping Strategy for 2nd Generation Immigrants in Frankfurt/Germany
Moderator:
Dr. Ronit Dinovitzer, Assistant Professor, Department of
Sociology, University of Toronto The paper is based on five years of ethnographic research with a drug dealing street gang consisting of 55 young male Muslim immigrants in Frankfurt, Germany. Born and raised in Germany as 2nd generation migrants of mainly Turkish, Albanian, Moroccan and Croatian descent, few of them will ever become German citizens. Yet contrary to their parents' aspirations, they do not dream of returning to their countries of origin, but rather, want to remain in Germany. The paper will illustrate how a strong local identification can serve as a coping strategy for 2nd generation immigrants who struggle not only with a socially excluding and xenophobic German society, but also with their perception of their parents' fear of becoming alienated from their Germanized children. It will be argued that the social exclusion as experienced by them in the educational system and their citizenship status in addition to the permanent labeling as foreigners and migrants has led them to create a positive sense of self by a strong local identification that has begun to eclipse other identities, especially ethnicity. |
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Friday |
10:00 – 12:00pm (Room 702) Management Committee/Domain Leaders/Data meeting 1:00 – 3:00pm (Room 730) Management Committee meeting |
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Friday
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Libertarian or Communitarian? Citizenship and refugees in the UK Moderator: Dr. Patricia K. Wood, Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Geography Presenter: Dr. Gareth Morrell, Senior Researcher, Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR), City University, London The discourse surrounding citizenship, integration and community cohesion in the UK is currently characterised by the conflict between libertarian and communitarian approaches to rights, responsibilities and citizenship. The impending Citizenship Act is driven by an emphasis on the responsibilities newcomers should fulfil to earn the ‘privileged’ status of British citizen and reflects a conscious shift by the centre-left of British politics towards more communitarian ideals. Drawing on original research with refugees in London, this paper argues that understanding the complex nature of the rights and responsibilities of refugees can illustrate that libertarian and communitarian understandings of citizenship and membership are not necessarily mutually exclusive and can be complimentary, informing different social networks and relationships. The paper also argues that while there is some desire amongst refugees to ‘earn’ their place in the UK as citizen, future policy needs to be informed by a more nuanced understanding of the interdependence of rights and responsibilities, somewhere between libertarian and communitarian. |
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Friday |
12:00 – 2:00pm (Room 730) Management Committee meeting 2:00 – 4:00pm (Room 702) Governance Board meeting |
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Thursday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION)
Ryerson University,
Jorgenson Hall
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Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) Settlement Without Boundaries – SWB+08 A one day Symposium, for settlement service providers, staff from community organizations and public institutions, funders, the academic community and immigrants and refugees. The Symposium will promote and provide a spotlight for new scholarship in immigration, settlement and refugee issues in Ontario and Canada. This is an opportunity for new voices to be heard and for traditional perspectives to be challenged. The primary goal of Settlement Without Boundaries - SWB+08 is to begin a dialogue that will articulate a new vision for the settlement of immigrants and refugees in Ontario. SWB+08 is a community‐based academic Symposium that seeks to move forward the discourse and dialogue on immigrant and refugee settlement in Ontario, visioning a new future and posing provocative questions. Within an academic conference setting, we will bridge disciplines and approaches to seek common initiatives and perspectives, building a framework for ongoing development.
Among
others, the following questions will be asked: This dialogue is necessary to move settlement service providers, community organizations, funders, public institutions, the academic community and immigrants and refugees to the intentional consideration of new models of community organizing, development and services in order to achieve equality, access and full participation for immigrants and refugees in every aspect of Canadian life. Opening and closing addresses will be delivered by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Ontario, the Honourable Michael Chan; Toronto Councillor, Janet Davis; CERIS Director, Ryerson University, John Shields; Executive Director, OCASI, Debbie Douglas; Director of Settlement Programs and Intergovernmental Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Darlyn Mentor; CERIS Director from York University, Valerie Preston. Rinaldo Walcott, Associate Professor of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, OISE, will give the morning keynote address. Professor Walcott who is also the author of Black like Who? (Insomniac Press) will focus on the creation of a new Canadian landscape through engaging racilaized and marginalized communities in nation building, and will examine the role of research in the re-making of a nation. Research and policy development is one of the topics that will be discussed during The Role of Research: Immigrant Settlement and the Changing Diversity of the Province, a morning plenary which will feature distinguished scholars: Uzma Shakir; Myer Siemiatycki; Carl James; Jane Ku and moderator Grace-Edward Galabuzi. During the Community-Oriented Research: Opportunities and Challenge-Relationship plenary, academic and community-based researchers will discuss topics such as relationship building and community engagement. Panellist include: Mila Garcia; Nancy Mandell; Fiona Whittington-Walsh; Katharine King; Roberto Jovel and moderator John Shields. Professor Joanna Anneke Rummens, CERIS Director, University of Toronto, will deliver the afternoon keynote address. Dr. Rummens, a Health Systems Research Scientist with the Community Health Systems Resource Group at The Hospital for Sick Children and a multilingual anthropologist/sociologist whose research explores the links between identity, diversity, health and wellbeing, with special focus on vulnerable and marginalized populations, will discuss CERIS’s role in light of emerging issues in community-academic research partnerships. The afternoon working group session which will be led by CERIS domain leaders and affiliated researchers: Patricia Wood, York University, Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration; Mehrunnisa Ali, Ryerson University, Family, Children and Youth; Mandana Vahabi, Ryerson University, Health and Well-Being; Scot Wortley, University of Toronto, Justice, Policing and Security, will give new scholars an opportunity to present their research in the CERIS domain areas. Registration is free. Space is limited – Contact: SWB08@ocasi.org to confirm your attendance |
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Friday |
9:30 am – 11:00 am (Room 730) Management Committee meeting |
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Friday |
9:45 am – 12:00 pm Domain Leaders Orientation (at York University) |
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Friday |
10:00 – 11:30am (Room 730) Management Committee/Domain Leaders/Data meeting 12:30 – 2:30pm (Room 730) Management Committee meeting |
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, Room 548, 5th Floor (St. George subway station, Bedford St. exit)
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Topic: Forced to be
Free?
Moderator: Dr.
Patricia K. Wood,
CERIS Domain Leader, Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic
Integration Beginning before the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., Madrid and London and accelerating as a result of these and other events, several European governments have pronounced multiculturalism a failure and opted for more aggressive means of integrating immigrants. The policy instruments selected to pursue this end have included mandatory integration courses, and citizenship tests formulated with an eye to determining whether individuals have sufficiently internalized prevailing values. Legislation constraining individuals’ ability to wear certain religious attire has also been introduced, in the name of upholding gender equality and minimizing the presence of religion in putatively secular public spheres. This presentation asks what we are to make of these trends. Are they contemporary manifestations of deeply rooted illiberal prejudice or do they reflect a novel shift in liberal-democratic states’ approaches to nation building? |
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Friday
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Topic: Immigrant Women's Opportunities and Barriers to Learning English Moderator: Dr. John Shields, CERIS Director, Ryerson University
Presenters: This presentation is based on a recent study of women who spoke Cantonese, Mandarin, Punjabi and Urdu as their first language, and learned English upon their arrival in Canada. We will address the following questions: What did we learn from the literature about immigrant women's access to English as a Second Language (ESL)? How did the women in our study learn about ESL provisions? Which opportunities worked best for them? What were some of their challenges, and how could they be addressed? We will also briefly include the perspectives of service providers who work with women in each of these four language groups. Finally, we will demonstrate a new web site dedicated to providing information about women's access to ESL. |
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April 17th and 18th, 2008 *PLEASE NOTE LOCATION*
Junior Common Room -
#014,
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CERIS - The
Ontario
Metropolis Centre Rethinking the Mosaic: Immigration, Settlement, and the Lived Experience This event offers graduate students across all disciplines the opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow students in a professional and intellectually vibrant, professional and supportive forum.
The theme for this
year's conference is Rethinking the Mosaic: Immigration, Settlement,
and the Lived Experience. The theme accommodates a wide range of
discussions around such issues as:
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Monday |
1:00 – 2:00pm (Room 730) Management Committee/Domain 2:00 – 4:00pm (Room 730) Management Committee meeting |
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Friday 12:00 – 2:00pm 246 Bloor St. West, Room 418, 4th Floor |
Topic: Minority Language Students' and Teacher's Perceptions of Multiculturalism, Democratic Values and Citizenship Presenter: Dr. Shiva Sadeghi, SSHRC Research Fellow, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Modern Language Centre, OISE – University of Toronto The presentation explored minority language children's awareness and understandings of bilingualism, perceptions of citizenship, and views towards diversity and multiculturalism within the context of five public school classrooms (K-9) in Ontario, Canada. The primary objective of this study is to add a new dimension to the scholarship on biliteracy and the development of cultural identity through integration of multicultural perspectives and citizenship discourses. Based on approximately 60 interviews with students, teachers, parents and principals, the data analysis to-date points to the significant role of heritage language and culture on bilingual children's psychosocial development. The study also provides an ethnographic analysis of heritage language textbooks and suggests ways of incorporating global and citizenship education into the curriculum. |
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Friday
246 Bloor St. West,
Room 548, 5th Floor |
Topic: “Provincial” Immigrants: the social, economic and transnational experiences of the Filipino Community in three of Ontario’s second-tier cities Presenter: Tom Lusis, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, University of Guelph Moderator: Dr. Philip Kelly, CERIS Domain Leader, Economic and Labour Market Integration This seminar highlights findings from a research project that looked at the immigration experiences of the Filipino community in Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and Niagara Falls. This seminar will examine themes such as immigrant experiences in a second-tier city, perceptions of Toronto and the Filipino community in Toronto, the importance of the Internet in contemporary transnationalism, and the lack of knowledge about immigration to second-tier cities at discursive and institutional scales in the Philippines. |
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Wednesday *PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION*
Health,
Nursing and Environmental Studies Building (HNES), Room B17,
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Topic: Immigrants and Disability Panelists: Dr. Tanya Basok, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology & Director, Centre for Studies in Social Justice, University of Windsor; Valentina Capurri, PhD Candidate, Department of History, York University; and Anna MacQuarrie, Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Canadian Association for Community Living. Moderator: Dr. Patricia K. Wood, CERIS Domain Leader, Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration This seminar explores the relationships between immigration and disability from various perspectives and at several levels of policy, practice, and lived experience. Presentations will cover the connections (and disconnects) between disability and federal immigration screening policies, the Hilewitz and De Jong cases (which successfully challenged the medical inadmissibility provisions in the 2002 Immigrant and Refugee Protection Act), and the findings of a CERIS-funded project carried out with community organizations in Windsor, Ontario, that examined access to services for newcomers with physical and mental disabilities. |
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Friday
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10:00 – 11:00am (Room 730) Management Committee/Domain
Leader/Data meeting |
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Friday
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Pathways and Adherence to Behavioural Services Among Immigrant Children and Families Presenter: Dr. Hayley Hamilton, Research Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Moderator: Dr. Mehrunnisa Ali, CERIS Domain Leader, Family, Children and Youth The presentation will outline the results of a small pilot study examining pathways and adherence to service. Discussion will focus on the experiences of immigrants who access behavioural services, the experiences of service providers, and policy and research implications. Further details to be announced. Refreshments will be served. |
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Friday 246 Bloor St. West, Room 548, 5th Floor
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Educating for Employment Integration in Ontario Presenter: Dr. Lillie Lum, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and School of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health, York University
Moderator:
Dr.
Philip Kelly,
CERIS Domain Leader, Economic and Labour Market Integration |
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Friday |
9:30 – 12:00pm (Room 702) RFP Adjudication meeting 2:00 – 4:00pm (Room 702) Governance Board meeting |
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Monday,
OISE/UT, |
Embracing Diversity in Principle Without Equality in Fact is a Hollow Prize: The Failure of the United States and Implications for Toronto Speaker: Dr. Joseph Darden, Professor of Geography, Michigan State University This presentation highlights the racial hierarchy and racial inequality in the United States, why racial equality is difficult to achieve, recent trends and concludes by examining the questions “Is Toronto moving in the direction of the United States in the area of race relations?” “What are the prospects for future racial conflict?” |
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DATE |
PAST EVENTS - 2007 |
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Friday Dec 7, 2007 |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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Friday, November 30, 2007
SYMPOSIUM
OPEN HOUSE
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CERIS Policy Research Symposium and Open House 11:30 – 12:00 Registration / Luncheon
12:00 – 12:10 Welcome from the CERIS Directors
12:10 – 1:45 Welcoming Communities – Housing, Services and
Vulnerabilities
1) Services and Suburbs
2) Housing, Youth and
Race Open Discussion
1:45 – 2:05 Break
Policing, Security & Justice - Dr. Scot Wortley (University of
Toronto) Open Discussion
3:35 - 3:45 Closing Remarks
3:45 - 4:00 Next Steps
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CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre Seminar Multiculturalism and Successful Integration: The Role of Ethnocultural/Immigrant Organizations Presenter: Dr. Agnes Meinhard, Director, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Ryerson University Moderator: Dr. John Shields, CERIS Director, Ryerson University Multiculturalism has been a cornerstone of Canada’s immigration policy since the 1960s. Recently, some scholars have been questioning the effectiveness of this policy with respect to the integration of immigrants. This research will: investigate the implications of Canada’s policy of multiculturalism on the social acculturation and economic success of immigrant groups; and examine the role of immigrant associations in creating connections to Canadian society (bridging), or strengthening within-group ties (bonding), and how this affects successful integration. |
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Friday,
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CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre Seminar Exploring the Links between Universities, Immigration and Immigrant Settlement in Kitchener-Waterloo Presenter: Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University Moderator: Dr. Philip Kelly, CERIS Domain Leader, Economic and Labour Market Integration Qualitative research on immigrant settlement in the Waterloo region has revealed the important role played by the region's universities in both attracting immigrants, but also in creating the feeling of a safe and welcoming space for settlement. This presentation explores these findings in light of recent scholarship on the links between social diversity, the creative community and economic development. |
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Wednesday, November
14, 2007 |
Diaspora Nationalism – A Case Study of Sikhs
Presenter:
Harpreet Kaur,
CERIS Visiting Scholar, PhD Candidate Diaspora is a contested term. It has gained international currency as the terms of its usage have become more exclusive. Diaspora nationalism is one of the sensitive subtopics of the broader discourse on Diaspora. Sikhs have been living in Canada for more than a century now. The seminar will look at the concept of diaspora, formation of Sikh Diaspora and its nationalism in Canada. |
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Friday, October 26, 2007 1:00 – 3:30 pm
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CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre and The Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter “Learning to be Good Citizens: The Experiences of Professional Chinese Immigrant Women in Toronto”
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Friday, Sept 7, 2007 |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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Thursday July 12, 2007 At Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 2214 (2nd Floor), 252 Bloor St. W.
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CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre
“Alay sa Kabataang
Pilipino”
“Filipinos in
Canada:
Economic Dimensions of Immigration and Settlement,”
(Working Paper Series No. 48) By Dr. Philip Kelly |
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Friday June 8, 2007 |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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Wednesday May 9,
2007 |
HOW STRANGERS BECOME NEIGHBOURS: Integrating Immigrants Through Community Development
A
Metropolis-Sponsored Half-Day Workshop
Presenters: This workshop will begin with the screening of the award winning 50 minute documentary film, Where Strangers Become Neighbours: the Story of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House (CNH) and the integration of immigrants in Vancouver. Working from a community development approach, CNH has succeeded in building a community where none previously existed, and helping newcomers to become citizens, in the fullest sense. Join us for a stimulating film and discussion of the role community-based organizations can play promoting immigrant integration and civic inclusion. |
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Friday |
“Tell Me
Something about Yourself”: Language Culture and Job Interviews Presenter: Huamei Han, OISE/UT English language proficiency is seen as a major barrier to immigrants’ labour market integration. Research on various kinds of gatekeeping interviews shows that interviewees who share linguistic and sociocultural knowledge with their interviewers are more likely to succeed. This seminar conceptualizes linguistic and sociocultural knowledge as habitus that is formed in lived socio-economic experiences, and describes the complex and difficult processes for immigrants to gain this knowledge. Drawing on a three-year ethnography of skilled immigrants from Mainland China in Toronto, I analyze a set of failed job interviews experienced by one young woman seeking junior level accounting jobs. I supplement this analysis with backstage and longitudinal data, and contrast her failed interviews with those that later landed her short- and long-term employment. I challenge the assumption that learning how to manage interviews is solely immigrants’ responsibility and discuss the implications for settlement policies and practices. |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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Thursday, March 1st |
Exploring Canada’s
Diversity, Today and Tomorrow |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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DATE |
PAST EVENTS - 2006 |
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Friday **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION** Room
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Access Not Fear: When Non-Status People Make Claims on City Services
Moderator:
Presenters: Non-status people are increasingly making their social needs and political issues known in Canada’s major cities, including Toronto. This growing social and political visibility forms the crucial background to our research. While the Canadian government has recently made it clear that it will not introduce a programme to regularize the status of undocumented and non-status immigrants, organizing by those directly affected by the state production of illegality continues. This presentation will discuss our community-based research study, a project based on discussions with non-status immigrants from different communities in Toronto about their experiences and difficulties in accessing city services, such as social housing and shelters, emergency services, health care, schools, social assistance, and food banks. It is informed by our prior research project on the history of regularization schemes in Canada. We will also consider prospects for Toronto's Don't Ask, Don't Tell campaign and examine directions for a research agenda for undocumented people. |
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Friday |
CERIS Governance Board
Meeting |
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Friday **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION** Room
418,
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How “earlier” skilled immigrants from Mainland China experience acculturation, employment challenges, and mental health issues
Presenters: This study focuses on the experiences of “earlier” Mainland Chinese skilled immigrants who have been in Canada for 4 to 10 years. In a qualitative study using grounded theory, Mainland Chinese skilled immigrants articulated their experiences of difficulty finding professional employment, language barrier, pressures to acculturate, feelings of “luocha” (falling down), and subsequent mental health issues. A representative from the community partner agency (Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter) will contextualize the psychosocial issues in the larger structural aspect of immigration and settlement, specifically focusing on the barriers to successful employment, foreign credentials and skills recognition. Some of the successful practices in addressing the issues as well as the recommendations for social services and social policy will be discussed. |
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Friday
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Transition without Status: The Experience of Youth Leaving Care without Citizenship
Presenter: Canadian child welfare authorities are responsible for supporting separated or unaccompanied children who arrive in Canada as immigrants or refugees, and ultimately facilitating their transition from care. Indicators of a successful transition would be that the youth is able to pursue his or her education, obtain employment and receive health care, tasks which are immeasurably more complicated if the youth has not obtained Canadian citizenship by the time transition from care occurs. It is precisely at the point of transition from care that these youth are most vulnerable. The youth themselves and staff who provide services to them were interviewed in an attempt to understand the dimensions of this issue and the ways in which youth, service providers and others have been working to minimize the number of youth who leave care without having obtained citizenship. |
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Friday
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Newcomer parents and their children's teachers: What and how do they communicate [or not]?
Presenters: Parents from six linguistic communities (Arabic, Somali, Russian, Urdu, Mandarin, and Caribbean English) and teachers from four schools were interviewed for this study. A video and power point presentation about what they expected from each other, what they appreciated, and what they wished was different will be presented. |
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Friday |
Examining Individual and Systemic Barriers Experienced by Visible Minority Social Workers in Mainstream Agencies Moderator: Dr. Philip Kelly, CERIS Economics Domain Leader and Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, York University.
Presenters:
This exploratory research and community based initiative is led by Access Alliance in partnership with Ryerson University and was funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada and the Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University. The impetus for the study emerged from a series of discussions involving concerned stakeholders from the social services sector who wanted to find ways to create better access to employment of visible minority social workers (both internationally trained and Canadian trained) in the field. The systemic nature of the problem raised a need for stakeholders to explore how to implement a broad-based anti-racism strategy to address the barriers both within their agencies and among the sector, particularly in mainstream agencies where visible minorities were underrepresented. |
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Friday |
Vertical Neighbourhoods as Spaces of Hope and Despair: A Case Study of Recent Bangladeshi Immigrants in Toronto
Moderator:
Dr. Joanna (Anneke)
Rummens, CERIS Director,
University of
Toronto. Since the days of the Chicago School social scientists have investigated various functional and social aspects of residential neighbourhoods. In the context of immigrant and refugee settlements in North America and Europe, residential neighbourhoods are deemed as horizontal geographical places, where social capital is mobilised, expediting the migrants’ social and economic integration into the new society. In many parts of Toronto’s inner city area and in the inner and outer suburbs, residential blocks are comprised of high rise private and public rental buildings and ownership condominiums. Upon arrival, many immigrant and refugee households reside in these structures. Even though high rises have become an integral part of Toronto's built form, little is known about the impact of these places on the lives of the residents, and vice versa. By drawing upon the experiences of Bangladeshis in Toronto, Dr. Ghosh demonstrates the transformations of vertical stacks of brick and mortar into not only functional places, but also as spaces of hope and despair. |
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Thursday
Best Institute, 112
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Multiculturalism, Public Discourse and Security: Where is Canada going? Moderator: Dr. Patricia Wood, CERIS Citizenship, Religion and Culture Domain Leader, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, York University Speakers: Sunil Johal, Senior Policy Analyst, Heritage Canada; Dr. Tariq Amin-Khan, Assistant Professor, Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University. Multiculturalism in Canada means many different things to many different people. Existing tensions over its definition have been exacerbated by new security measures and a concurrent shift in public discourse about immigration, diversity and citizenship. Over the last five years, policies related to dual citizenship, multiculturalism, integration, refugee claims, border regulation, and travel abroad have all come under new scrutiny. The debate in Canada has also been influenced by similar debates elsewhere, Europe in particular. This seminar will explore and encourage discussion around these questions. |
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Friday |
“Unsettled” - -
Identifying Legal and Policy Barriers to Settlement in
Canada Moderator: Dr. Joanna (Anneke) Rummens, CERIS Director Presenter: Dr. Sarah Wayland This seminar focused on legal and policy barriers that inhibit the settlement of newcomers. Specifically, it showcased the findings of recently-concluded research that identifies a range of federal and provincial legal and policy barriers to the settlement of immigrants, refugees, and refugee claimants across Canada. These include barriers to employment, health care, housing, settlement services and language education as well as barriers found in immigration policy. Dr. Wayland also identified initiatives and programs that are working to overcome these barriers and propose legal reforms and policy and program changes in key areas impacting newcomer settlement. The research presented was based on the “Unsettled” report released in July 2006 and funded by the Law Commission of Canada and the Community Foundations of Canada. The report can be downloaded from the website of Community Foundations of Canada (http://www.cfc-fcc.ca/doc/LegalPolicyBarriers.pdf). |
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Friday, September 15, 2006 |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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Tuesday |
A Sociological Analysis
of Social Trust Among Iranian Migrants in Canada (Case Study: Toronto) |
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Wednesday |
Integrative Antiracism:
South Asians in Canadian Academe This presentation will examine the educational experiences of South Asian students and faculty members from the perspective of ‘integrative antiracism’ – the study of how the dynamics of social difference are mediated in people’s daily lives. Specifically, Samuel analyses perceptions of and responses to racism in four critical areas: faculty-student relationships, peer group interactions, curriculum and the psychosocial dimension. |
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Friday, June 9, 2006 |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting (Note new date) |
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Friday
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CERIS Research
Domain Planning Workshop – A New Research Domain in the Area of
“Citizenship, Religion and Culture” CERIS has a new research domain in the area of “Citizenship, Religion and Culture”. One of the envisioned tasks of this domain to bridge practical concerns of how such issues (i.e., issues of immigrant identity, belonging and civic engagement in relation to themes of social inclusion and exclusion) are managed in Ontario alongside larger theoretical questions. Naturally, the exact roadmap of the domain’s activities will be determined by its participants, and our first endeavor sets out to accomplish just this. |
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Friday, May 26, 2006 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. |
Homelessness Among Immigrants in Toronto: How Does This Happen and How Does It Affect New Canadian Families? Speakers: Representatives of a team that included Steven Webber, Kenise Murphy Kilbride, Etta Baichman-Anisef, Sabin Mukkoth, Robert Freeman, Cecilia Wong, and Nelson Amaral. Team members will report on outcomes from a study of 60 in-depth interviews of immigrants in Toronto, and will include some comparisons with data from another 40 interviews in Peel Region and Hamilton. Presenters will focus on the principal causes of the interviewees' homelessness, its impact on immigrant families, and the lack of appropriate strategies for addressing it. |
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Monday,
May 8, 2006 |
CERIS Open House 246 Bloor St. West, 3rd Fl., Toronto |
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Friday |
Post-Migration Changes in Gender Relations in the Ethiopian Community in Toronto – Phase II
Speakers:
Hiwot Teffera, MA, Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Women’s Health, Toronto Girma Mekonnen Tizazu, MD, Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Women’s Health, Toronto The main objective of this community-based study was to understand risk factors associated with marital conflict and intimate partner violence (IPV) in newcomer immigrant communities. Many studies suggest that post-migration changes in gender relations affect the power dynamics between men and women, and increase the risk of marital conflict and IPV. In the first phase of the project, individual interviews and focus groups were conducted with eight Ethiopian couples who had been married in Ethiopia and migrated to Toronto. Phase II explored post-migration changes in gender relations and marital conflict among nine Ethiopians who were separated or divorced. Findings suggested that although sources of conflict were similar for Phase I and II study participants, there were clear differences in the strategies used to resolve conflict. The latter group adopted more discordant patterns of resolving conflict and was less likely to successfully negotiate new roles and responsibilities. Problems in communication emerged as a central issue for the majority of separated/divorced study participants. Recommendations to improve marital stability and prevent marital conflict and IPV in the Ethiopian community will be discussed. |
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Friday |
The ‘Housing Situations’ of Immigrants and Refugees in a Border City
Speakers:
Colleen Mitchell, BSW, RSW, Community-based researcher and project consultant, and acting Program Director of the Glengarry project This seminar presented findings from a community-university research partnership that focused on the 'housing situations' of immigrants and refugees in Windsor-Essex County, an area that Census Canada Data (2001) names as the second fastest growing community in Ontario after Toronto (this population growth is mainly due to immigration not birth). Windsor-Essex also has Canada’s fourth largest proportion of foreign-born population after Toronto, Vancouver and Hamilton. Drawing from analysis of 2001 Census data and in-depth interviews, the research project explored the interconnectedness of adequate and affordable housing, neighborhood and community in the settlement and well-being of new immigrants and refugees. The implications of the findings for an effective community response that delineates policies and practices that better meet the housing needs of newcomers will be discussed. |
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Friday, March 31, 2006 |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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Thursday
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Unions, Race, Immigrants and Earnings: A Longitudinal Examination of the Effect of Union Membership on the Income Progression of Immigrants to Canada
Speakers:
Jeffrey Reitz, Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration & Pluralism Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Rupa Banerjee, PhD Candidate, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto |
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Friday |
ESL IN ONTARIO
- Supporting English
Learners in Ontario Schools: Challenges for the Future? |
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Friday |
A multi-stakeholder
driven employment strategy for immigrants with engineering backgrounds –
From ‘Canadian First’ to ‘Canada First’
to compete globally in the 21st Century Speaker: Dr. Gurmeet Bambrah, Coordinator, Council for Access to the Profession of Engineering (CAPE) |
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Friday
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Teen-Parent
Relationships in the Settlement of Sri Lankan Tamils in
Toronto |
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Friday
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Migration, Mental
Health and Addictions, and Clinical Cultural Competence |
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Friday |
Challenging Social
Exclusion in One
Toronto
Neighbourhood: Lessons from Malvern |
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Friday, January 13, 2006 |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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DATE |
PAST EVENTS - 2005 |
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Friday, |
How Migration Regulates Labour Markets. |
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Friday, Nov. 25, 2005 |
CERIS Governance Board Meeting |
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Friday |
CERIS Research Retreat |
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Thursday, |
CERIS GRADUATE
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
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Friday, |
Immigrant Incorporation in the
U.S. and
Canada: Preliminary Assessments. How do the United States and Canada compare in relation to immigrant settlement policies? That is, what kinds of policies do each country's governments attempt to deploy in relation to helping international migrants get "settled" in their new surroundings? What kinds of rationales are offered by policy advocates in defense of their policy proposals? How do these advocates articulate the aims of immigrant settlement policy? What are their expectations regarding the impact of these policies on immigrant communities and on the country as a whole? Using critical discourse analysis, and an analytical framework centered on two sets of questions regarding each country's approach to immigrant settlement policy, Dr. Schmidt’s research project critically interrogates the rationales of policy advocates in relation to the public values of "justice" and the "public good." The seminar provided an introduction to the project and a progress report. |
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Thursday, |
Introduction to 2001 Census Public Use Microdata Files (PUMFs). |
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Wednesday, |
Aspects of Citizenship
– Citizens and Non-citizens in
Sweden, Europe; Acquisition, Loss and Significance. |
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Friday, June 17, 2005 |
CERIS Management Board Meeting |
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May 19, 2005
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Toronto's Ethnic Enclaves: Sites of Segregation or Communities of Choice? |
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April 22, 2005 |
Recommendations for the Delivery of ISAP Services to Mandarin Speaking Immigrants from Mainland China. In
2004, CERIS completed a study funded by Citizenship and Immigration
Canada (Settlement Directorate, Ontario Region) on the effective
delivery of ISAP services to the Mandarin speaking community in the GTA.
This seminar was focused on the recommendations for service delivery,
and CIC’s responsed to them. |
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March 11, 2005 |
CERIS Open House |
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February 11, 2005
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Integration of Newcomer
Children and Youth in the Education System. |
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February 08, 2005 |
Post World War II
Migration Policies: A Comparative Study |
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January 27, 2005
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From Emigration to
Immigration: Changing Trends in International Migration in Europe and
the Case of Spain. |
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January 21, 2005 (Housing and Neighbourhoods Domain Seminar)
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Housing, Racialisation
and Health.
Members of racialised groups have increased dramatically in Toronto
during the past two decades. At the same time, access to adequate and
affordable housing has become problematic for many racialised group
members. There is also general agreement that poor housing circumstances
can impact on the health status of racialised groups but the specifics
are not well known. This seminar explored the intersections between
housing, racialisation and health. Presentations by leading experts in
these fields followed by an overview of a community based study being
undertaken in northwest Toronto by Lawrence Heights Community Health
Centre and Access Alliance's Housing, Race and Health Status Working
Group. |
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January 14, 2005 |
CERIS Management Board Meeting |
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DATE |
PAST EVENTS - 2004 |
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December 3, 2004 |
Latin Americans in
Toronto: Working Towards Community-University Collaborative Research. |
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November 26, 2004 |
English as a Second
Language Programs in Toronto: Current Issues and Recommendations for
Improvement. |
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November 18, 2004
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Culture Brokering in
the Health and Rehabilitation Services. |
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November 12, 2004 |
Canadian Economic
'Experiment' in Diversity and Its Impact on Internationally Trained
Engineering Graduates. |
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November 5, 2004 |
In the Public Interest:
Immigrant Access to Regulated Professions in Today's Ontario. |
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November 5, 2004 |
CERIS Management Board Meeting |
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October 15, 2004
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CERIS Research Retreat |
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October 14, 2004 |
Effective Use of
Immigration Data |
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October 1, 2004 |
Sanctuary, Borderlines
and Other Current Challenges of Refugee Advocates. |
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| Updated March 12, 2010 |