CERIS MANAGEMENT BOARD MEETING

 

FRIDAY, September 26, 2003

1:00 - 3:00 pm

 

FRIDAY, November 7, 2003

2:00 - 4:00 pm

 

At the main CERIS (Toronto) office, 246 Bloor St. W., 7th Floor, Room 702

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CERIS RESEARCH RETREAT

 

FRIDAY, September 5, 2003

Time: TBA

 

At the main CERIS (Toronto) office, 246 Bloor St. W., 7th Floor, Room 702

 

CERIS Seminar

 

This academic year, CERIS has presented seminars by three of our domains – Economics, Education and, Housing and Neighbourhoods.  Seminars by the other domains – Community, Health and, Justice and Law – will be held in the next academic year. Details will be announced later.

 

 

COMMUNITY FORUM ON CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIC PARTICIPATION

Date: July 17 2003, 6:30-8:30pm

 

The Alternative Planning Group in partnership with Toronto Civic Action Network – TorontoCAN invites you to this forum.  Civic participation includes paying taxes, using services, volunteering, getting involved in community issues, exercising the right to vote, effecting change and advocacy. There are many ways active citizens can contribute to Toronto’s vibrant society.  This year Toronto has a municipal election, Ontario has a provincial election.  Next year Canada has a Federal election.  What are some of the barriers you face in being an active citizen?  43.7% of Toronto’s population immigrated to Canada in the last 10 years (2001 Census).  Only Canadian citizens can vote, landed immigrants and refugees are excluded from this process of civic participation. How can we change these policies?

 

The forum will be hosted by CASSA at Metro Hall Room 308 (St. Andrew Subway).

Refreshments will be provided.  Please inform the organizers in advance if you need translation services.  Register in advance by emailing rachna@cassa.on.ca or 416-979-8611 x 4305.

 The findings and outcomes of this forum will inform the agenda of the Toronto People’s Summit in September and a larger campaign to mobilise citizens around the elections.  Funding  for this project is provided by The Maytree Foundation and the Laidlaw Foundation.

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CERLAC CONFERENCES

(CENTRE for RESEARCH on LATIN AMERICA & the CARIBBEAN)

**International Migration in the Americas: Emerging Issues **
September 19-20, 2003, York University
http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/EVENTS.html#Migration
 
**Canada, Free Trade and Deep Integration in North America **
York University in Toronto, October 15-16, 2003
http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/deep-integration.html
 
Please inform the organizers in advance of your intention to attend:
cerlac@yorku.ca

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YCAR EVENTS

(YORK CENTRE FOR ASIAN RESEARCH)

 

**Workshop: Transnational Religious Identities and Politics**

Date: October 23 & 24, 2003
 

Time:  9:00 am - 5:00 pm.  both days

Location:  Room 305 York Lanes, Keele Campus. 

Co-Sponsors:  Centre for Feminist Research, York University; Asia Pacific Policy Division, Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade (DFAIT)

[Workshop Description, Word format]

 

**Symposium: Migration: Status, Work, and Family**

Date:  November 7, 2003    9:00 am - 5:00 pm.

 

Location:  Room 305 York Lanes, Keele Campus

Co-Sponsors:  Centre for Feminist Research, York University

For more information on YCAR events, visit:

http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/events.htm   or e-mail  ycar@yorku.ca

 

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

War and Peace: the East Asian Context     October 4th, 2003
Abstracts of no more than 200 words are to be submitted by July 15, 2003.

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Fourth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference

This conference invites graduate students in the Humanities and the Social Sciences to meet  and present their research on East Asian experiences of war, conflict, chaos, revolution, rebellion, as well as the parallel or subsequent pursuit of peace and tranquility. The theme may be explored from political, socio-economic, literary, artistic, and religious viewpoints; interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged.
 
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted electronically. Please also include either a cover letter indicating your name, program, school, number of years in graduate studies and research interests, or a brief, one-page, curriculum vitae. Papers of no more than 3000 words should be submitted no later than August 15, 2003, so that panel discussants will have time to read them and prepare comments in advance.

We thank you for observing these guidelines. Please direct abstracts, papers, and any inquiries to easgsc@chass.utoronto.ca, or visit our conference web site at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/easgsc .
An alternate e-mail address is darryl.sterk@utoronto.ca   OR: d.cheung@utoronto.ca

Stephen Trott stephen.trott@utoronto.ca
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Tel: (416) 964-7157 Fax: (416) 978-5566
University of Toronto,100 St. George St.
Toronto ON  M5S 3G3

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eCOMMUNITY- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION

The first electronic international journal of mental health and addiction - eCOMMUNITY - is now accepting papers for its upcoming issue.

Multiple Lenses: Mental Health and Addiction from Positivist, Interpretive, Constructivist, Emancipatory and Critical perspectives (Special Issue)

Submission deadline: Sep. 30^th, 2003

The eCOMMUNITY offers an Internet-based forum for up-to-date information and developments in mental health and addiction related research, policy, phenomenology, literary, and treatment. Through publishing high quality peer-reviewed articles, it is our aim to seek and lead an international debate on mental health and addiction and help make sense of how mental health and addiction affects individuals and communities.

The eCOMMUNITY will be published twice a year. The Journal is available to everyone and is distributed free. We welcome submission of articles for publication in the eCOMMUNITY by researchers, clinicians, educators, frontline workers, other allied health professionals and community stakeholders.

For more information, please visit: http://www.pasinfo.net/callforpaper.htm

Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please use Word format and email your paper to the managing editor (zangeneh@pasinfo.net).

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CERIS WELCOMES DR. USHA GEORGE AS DIRECTOR

CERIS is very  pleased  to  welcome Dr. Usha  George  who took  over as Director on 1 July.    Usha is   Associate Dean in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, and has been  a member of  CERIS' Management Board since 1996.  She received her Ph.D. in  Sociology  from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria and her research interests are in the areas of newcomer settlement  and  adaptation; organization  and  delivery  of  settlement  services;  community  work with marginalized   communities, and  social  development. She  has completed  a  number of research projects on the settlement  and  adaptation issues of various immigrant  communities in Ontario. She has just  completed the  evaluation  of the  Settlement Worker in Schools (SWIS) project in Ontario. Among other projects, she is currently Co-Investigator on a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute  project  entitled  "Trends  in  Family  and  Social  Structure  and  Their Impact on Health in India: A Case Study of the Urban Poor in Bhopal, Madhya  Pradesh, India"  and  is Principal Investigator on a SSHRC-funded  project  entitled "Social Capital and  Settlement: A Study of Newcomer South Asian Women." In addition to her academic credentials, Usha also brings a background  in non-profit organizations  to  the  position. Before  teaching at the University of  Toronto,  she  was  Senior  Program  Director  at  the  Social  Planning  Council  of  Metropolitan Toronto  and  Executive  Director  of  South  Asian  Family  Support  Services,   Scarborough, Ontario.  We look  forward  to working  with Usha in her  new  role as Director of CERIS.

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THANK YOU, DR. MORTON BEISER

At the end of June, Dr. Morton Beiser retired as Director of CERIS and everyone at the Centre wishes to thank him for his many  years of leadership.  Morley has been involved in CERIS since its beginnings and has led the way as the Centre developed from a concept to a thriving research community which is now in its second stage of Metropolis funding.  Morley's own research has played an important role both in CERIS and in the  broader Metropolis Network. The New Canadian Children and  Youth  Study (NCCYS) unites 40 academic researchers associated with the health domains of the four Metropolis Centres in a study of the strengths of immigrant and refugee families and communities as well as the developmental challenges that may be more or less specific to immigrant and refugee children,  as well as those which affect all youth but which are amplified as a result of the resettlement experience.  Morley was also the Principal Investigator of  ‘Strangers Becoming Us’, a very successful  resource kit consisting of a CD and associated teaching materials for both elementary and high schools, developed by CERIS in partnership with "Classroom Connections," a Toronto-based organization specializing in the development and dissemination of educational materials for Canadian schools.  In recognition of his significant contributions to immigration research in Canada and to  the development and administration  of  CERIS, Morley has been appointed CERIS Senior Research  Scientist by the  Management Board. CERIS will continue to benefit from Morley's wisdom and  experience as he will continue to  be based at CERIS and will direct  several research projects (including NCCYS) which will be housed here.

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CHAIR OF THE CERIS MANAGEMENT BOARD (2003 – 2004)

CERIS is very pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Doucet as the Chair of the CERIS Management Board on July 1, 2003.  While serving as Chair, Michael will continue as Editor of the CERIS Working Paper Series. With degrees from the University of Toronto and York University and his experience as a faculty member at Ryerson University, Michael is already familiar with the universities involved in CERIS.  A historical geographer, Michael has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Toronto’s development. Currently, he is interviewing public servants and politicians who were involved in the important planning changes that took place in Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s. He is also updating his bibliography about immigration research in Toronto. Watch for it, he promises the number of entries will almost double!  CERIS will benefit from Michael’s vast administrative experience, most recently as President of the Ryerson Faculty Association and incoming President of Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.

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THANK YOU, DR. VALERIE PRESTON, OUTGOING BOARD CHAIR

CERIS would like to extend a large thank you to Professor Valerie Preston for her service as CERIS Board Chair during the last year. Valerie has been closely attached with CERIS from its very beginnings.  Representing York University, she was one of the original Associate Directors of the Centre. Her dedication to the idea of CERIS and the partnership it represents between the three founding Toronto universities and the broader community sector has never wavered. She brought all her energy and commitment to the job of Board Chair during a difficult time of transition between Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Metropolis Project. Her leadership and hard work, however, has helped to lay a firm foundation for the future. Fortunately, Valerie's depth of experience and wisdom will not be lost to CERIS as she will be continuing on as a Board representative from York University. Your contributions have been much appreciated Valerie and CERIS looks forward to a long and productive ongoing relationship with you.

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WELCOME, NEW BOARD MEMBERS

• Professor Audrey Macklin has joined the CERIS Management Board as a representative of the University of Toronto. She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law. She holds law degrees from Yale and Toronto, and a bachelor of science degree from Alberta. After graduating from Toronto, she served as law clerk to Mme Justice Bertha Wilson at the Supreme Court of Canada. She was appointed to the faculty of Dalhousie Law School in 1991, and promoted to Associate Professor 1998. While teaching at Dalhousie, she also served as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board.  Professor Macklin's teaching areas include criminal law, administrative law, and immigration and refugee law. Her research and writing interests include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights. We are pleased to welcome her as part of the CERIS community and look forward to benefitting from her extensive experience and knowledge.

• Dr. Scot Wortley, Justice and Law Domain Leader, will be the new Domain Committee Representative on the CERIS Board, taking over from Dr. Robert Murdie.  Scot is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Centre of Criminology, where he has been involved in several pioneering studies of policing practices in Toronto. Scot’s recent research focuses on the links between crime and race.  He is involved in a comparative study of high school students in Toronto and Chicago that will examine racial differences in perceptions of social justice and their impacts on criminal behaviour and educational aspirations. He is continuing to study the impact of race on pre-trial decision-making with Gail Kellough from York University. Scot is committed to ensuring that his research findings are familiar to policymakers. He is often quoted in the media, as a quick review of the press clippings on the University of Toronto website confirms. His short course on immigration and justice issues has been very well received by public servants and staff from non-governmental organizations who appreciate the way he links research with relevant policy questions. Currently, Scot is beginning a study of the complex relationships between immigration status, race and ethnicity, and crime issues.

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THANK YOU, DR. CARL AMRHEIN

They say that no one is irreplaceable. However, many of us will find it hard to accept that the saying applies in the case of Carl Amrhein.  Dr. Amrhein, who was the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Toronto and a member of the CERIS Management Board, has assumed a new post as Vice-President and Provost of the University of Alberta. A distinguished geographer, Carl was part of the original team of applicants who successfully competed for the award which resulted in the creation of CERIS. Since then, he has served as a member of the Management Board and, for two terms, as Chair of the Board. Despite the competing pressures associated with being the Dean of Arts and Science at one of Canada's largest universities, Carl has always "been there" for CERIS, supporting the directors, benefitting the Board with his administrative experience and clear-headed judgement, and acting as an advocate for the Centre, both nationally and internationally. Replaceable? It is hard to imagine that either CERIS or the University of Toronto will find another Carl Amrhein easily. We wish him luck in his new position, even though we will continue to envy our colleagues at PCERI who, with good reason, couldn't be happier about his move.

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A SPECIAL APPRECIATION TO RETIRING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD

CERIS would like to thank two members of its Board who departed this June, Professors Michael Lanphier and Robert Murdie. Both Professor Lanphier and Professor Murdie represented York University; Professor Lanphier as Board member and past Chair of the board, and Professor
Murdie as the Domain Committee's Representative to the Board and, Housing and Neighbourhoods Domain Leader. CERIS owes a strong note of gratitude to both departing members. Professor Lanphier has been with CERIS since its inception and has served CERIS well in a number of different capacities. He has proven unstinting in his willingness and commitment to serve and the board has relied consistently on his critical insights throughout Phase 1. Robert Murdie, an exemplary domain leader who has made extraordinary contributions to building the housing domain at CERIS brought comparable energy and leadership to the board in serving as the Domain Committee's Representative on the board. We wish both Michael Lanphier and Robert Murdie well in their future endeavours and CERIS anticipates that it will draw upon their strengths in the future.

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RIIM SURVEY

Our colleagues at the Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM) Centre are conducting a survey of immigrants to Canada from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. If you are interested in completing this survey, please go to the following web site:
http://riim.metropolis.net/research-policy/Survey  

For further information, please contact:  

Don DeVoretz, Co-Director, RIIM at devoretz@sfu.ca or
Shibao Guo, Senior Researcher, RIIM at sguo@sfu.ca.

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IMMIGRATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

This is the theme of the April 2003 edition of Canadian Issues. Sponsored by the Metropolis Project, this edition features interviews with The Hon. Denis Coderre, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and The Hon. Jean Augustine, Secretary of State, Multiculturalism and Status of Women, and  articles by policy analysts and academics on Canada’s immigration policy, immigrant economic performance, political participation by immigrants and social inclusion.

For more information, contact the Association of Canadian Studies,

Tel: (514)987-7784    Fax: (514)987-3481  E-mail: general@acs-aec.ca

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DISPATCHES FROM METROPOLIS (March-May 2003)

Dispatches from Metropolis International provides updates on products, initiatives and events of interest to those in the Metropolis Network.
Please find attached the link to this publication, which has moved to an electronic format.

http://international.metropolis.net/research-policy/dispatch/vol4_no2-3.htm

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ONTARIO ELECTIONS – OCASI POLLS POLITICAL PARTIES

OCASI polled the three major Ontario political parties on their position on current issues that impact on immigrants and refugees in Ontario. 

Featured in the OCASI June Monthly report: http://www.ocasi.org/sys/report_detail.asp?ReportID=155

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