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CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre, Community Arts Practice @York (CAP), and CERLAC- York University Upcoming Seminar:
Latin American Artists in Toronto: Immigrants and Artists at Work


Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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


**Please NOTE the location: Conference Center, 5th floor, York Research Tower, York University

This seminar is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to ceris.reception@utoronto.ca or call (416) 946-3110

CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre Upcoming Seminar: Settlement Services Scoping Study: Emerging Issues, Trends, Challenges & Opportunities for the City of Toronto

Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Presenters:
Dr. Kenise Murphy Kilbride, Professor Emerita, Ryerson University & Senior Scholar at CERIS
Dr. Francis G. Hare, Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, and MA Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Ryerson University
Navjeet Sidhu, Researcher, Social Planning Toronto
 

**Please note new location**

Faculty of Social Work- 246 Bloor St. West,
4th Floor, Room 418
(St. George subway station, Bedford Street exit)

This seminar is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to ceris.reception@utoronto.ca or call (416) 946-3110

Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative

TIEDI has published its latest report, focusing on whether enrolling in classes in Canada affects the labour outcomes of immigrants.  To read this report and previous TIEDI reports in this project, please click on the following link:

http://www.yorku.ca/tiedi/pubreports.html

No One Is Illegal Forum

A
professional development and networking forum for service providers working with newcomer communities to develop strategies aimed at ensuring access to essential services for immigrants without full status.

Date:       
Friday, March 19, 2010
Time:       
12:30 pm (Registration)
              1:00-3:00 pm (Forum)
Location: 155 College Street
Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto

For more information click here or e-mail nooneisillegal@riseup.net

CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre Graduate Student Conference
(Re)Imagining Canada: Migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora

              Friday, April 23rd, 2010
         York University, Toronto, Ontario

Please click here to view the flyer for this event.
For more information, please contact the organising committee at ceris@yorku.ca

12th National Metropolis Conference

Immigration and Diversity: Crossroads of Cultures, Engine of the Economy
(Montreal, Canada, March 18-21, 2010)

You are invited to visit the conference website to stay up-to-date on the latest developments and updates.

Graduate Student Development Day     

        12th National Metropolis Conference

                  March 18th, 2010

Graduate Student Development Day offers graduate students (and faculty members) the opportunity to discuss the importance of policy-relevant research, to learn how to shape a policy-relevant research question, as well as to gain
insight into the potential uses offered by way of various government data sets related to issues of immigration and diversity.  For more information on this event, please click here.

CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre SEMINARS  


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

Click on the following links for:

Seminar Presentation Notes

CERIS Events Calendar

York Infrastructure Project


MA Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies @ Ryerson University
Canada’s first graduate program devoted to advanced study of immigration policy, services and experience. The Master of Arts in Immigration and Settlement Studies is an innovative new program that will explore immigration trends, policies & programs in Canada from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Available in both full-time and part-time study options. www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/immigration/

Apply for an Affiliation with CERIS

Click here for the details

Publications

 

CERIS POLICY MATTERS 
 

No. 42, January 2010
Do Not Disturb/Please Clean Room: The invisible work and real pain of hotel housekeepers in the GTA By Sirena Liladrie. January 2010.

 

No. 41, September 2009
Ethnicity, Spatial Equity and Utilization of Primary Care Physicians: A case study of Mainland Chinese Immigrants in the Toronto CMA By Lu Wang. September 2009.

 

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CERIS WORKING PAPER No. 75-77
 

Ho, Mabel, and Harald Bauder. 2010. "We are Chameleons": Identity Capital in a Multicultural Workplace. CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 77. March 2010.

Anisef, Paul, Robert Sweet, and Maria Adamuti-Trache. 2010. Impact of Canadian Postsecondary Education on Recent Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes. CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 76. February 2010.


Kelly, Philip F., Mila Astorga-Garcia, Enrico F. Esguerra, and the Community Alliance for Social Justice, Toronto. 2009. Explaining the Deprofessionalized Filipino: Why Filipino Immigrants Get Low-Paying Jobs in Toronto. CERIS Working Paper Series. No. 75. October 2009.

(Please right click to download the Working Paper)

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Annual Activities Report to SSHRC
- Metropolis Project Phase III (Year Two)

Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Click here to read
 

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  • CERIS Monthly Bulletin: Get the latest news from CERIS to your e-mail box, conferences, events, new publications and other notices. Click here to subscribe.

  • Graduate Students Listserv: Allow students informed and exchanged information related to issues of immigration and settlement, and CERIS activities specific for graduate students. Click here to subscribe.

 


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Conference Notes:


CERIS 2009 Graduate Student Conference: Migration, Citizenship and Inclusion: Re-Defining Boundaries and Borders

Click here for presentation notes
 

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2008 CERIS Graduate Student Conference: Rethinking the Mosaic: Immigration, Settlement, and the Lived Experience

Click here for papers from presenters

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9th National Metropolis Conference
Online Conference Proceedings
Click here to access

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What is CERIS

CERIS, the Ontario Metropolis Centre, is a collaborative project governed by a Governance Board that encompasses Ryerson University, University of Toronto, York University, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, and the United Way of Greater Toronto. CERIS goals are:

  1. Promoting research about the impact of immigration on the Greater Toronto Area and on the integration of immigrants into Canadian society;
  2. Providing training opportunities;
  3. Disseminating policy and program relevant research information.

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Metropolis is a cooperative international forum for policy-related research on the effects of immigration and settlement on urban centres.  At the base of Metropolis are innovative government-academic partnerships which will provide knowledge at the core of decision-making.  CERIS is one of five research centres across Canada established under the Metropolis Project.

  Also visit these other Metropolis web sites:
  To access the Metropolis Canada Metropolis Canada
An international forum for research and policy on migrations, diversity and changing cities.
  To access the Montreal Centre Montréal
The Quebec Metropolis Centre
  To access the Prairie Metropolis Centre Prairie
Prairie Metropolis Centre
  British Columbia
Metropolis British Columbia
  To access the Atlantic Metropolis Centre Atlantic
Atlantic Metropolis Centre
  To access the Metropolis International Metropolis International
Web site of the Metropolis International Secretariat
 

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  Last Updated:
March 17, 2010
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