Metropolis Project
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The Metropolis Project is an international network for comparative research and public policy development on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around the world.[1][2]
The Metropolis Project is managed by a Secretariat, located in Ottawa and Amsterdam. It is also guided by an International Steering Committee of representatives from over 40 countries. Howard Duncan is the Project's Executive Head.
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[edit] Publications
The Bridge is an electronic information bulletin which is broadcast by the Metropolis Project Secretariat. It is published once every six weeks and will contain recent activity in the 6 priority areas, upcoming events as well as featured articles. The first edition is available in December, 2007.
The Metropolis Project also publishes an academic journal, the Journal of International Migration and Integration (Revue de l'intégration et de la migration internationale). It is published quarterly, in both English and French; its first issue was in Winter, 2000. The editor for 2006–2008 is Peter S. Li of the University of Saskatchewan.
[edit] Annual Conference
The project has hosted an international conference concerning research and policy on human migration, annually since 1996.
The conference locations have been:
- 2007 – Melbourne, Australia – Conference web site
- 2006 – Lisbon, Portugal
- 2005 – Toronto, Canada
- 2004 – Geneva, Switzerland
- 2003 – Vienna, Austria
- 2002 – Oslo, Norway
- 2001 – Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 2000 – Vancouver, Canada
- 1999 – Washington D.C., United States
- 1998 – Zikhron Ya'aqov, Israel
- 1997 – Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1996 – Milan, Italy
[edit] References
- ^ “Activities of the Metropolis Project”, Second coordination meeting on international migration, New York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, October 15–16, 2003, <http://www.un.org/esa/population/meetings/secoord2003/ITT_COOR2_CH14_Metropolis.pdf>.
- ^ “Innovation Case Study: Metropolis Project”, The Innovation Journal, September 1999, <http://www.innovation.cc/case-studies/met-proj.htm>.
