GLOBALIZATION, URBANIZATION AND ETHNICITY · 2015-06-26 · Globalization, Urbanization and Ethnicity Public Conference Crowne Plaza Hotel Ottawa 1 Dear Colleagues: Welcome to Ottawa

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GLOBALIZATION, URBANIZATION AND ETHNICITY

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Dear Colleagues: Welcome to Ottawa and to the Globalization, Urbanization and Ethnicity conference. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities for the first time in history. This fact alone makes the understanding of urban development central to understanding countries’ political, social and economic futures. Cities are dynamic places in which domestic and global movements of people and economic processes intersect. A central consequence of urbanization is rapidly changing configurations of ethno-cultural diversity, particularly in the world’s major cities. Place matters to our understanding of ethnic relations. We must therefore know more about the conditions under which urban contexts lead to ethnic conflict and exclusion as well as about the possibilities that urban life offers for peaceful and inclusive co-existence. The aim of this conference is to explore the role of the urban dimensions of ethnic politics and relations in the political, social and economic development of the global North and South. We are interested in furthering our empirical understanding of the world’s ethnically diverse cities, conceptualizing the ethnic relations challenges and opportunities in cities as well as probing the place-specific causes and consequences of ethnic conflict and peaceful coexistence. The Globalization, Urbanization and Ethnicity conference offers attendees the opportunity to interact with a diverse group of international scholars of ethnic politics, urban scholars, government policy makers at various levels of government and in various jurisdictions as well as a variety of community leaders and local service providers. We hope that the international and multi-sector participation at the conference as well as the mixed panel, roundtable and keynote speaker formats will facilitate a vibrant conversation on how to understand, design and implement successful urban policies and to build robust urban institutions. Ultimately, we hope the conference contributes to a dialogue about the development of public policies and local institutions that address ethnic relations challenges in a way that is sensitive to urban contexts and that encourages peaceful and inclusive ethnic co-existence. Understanding ethnic politics in cities will be fundamental to developing politically engaged, socially sustainable and economically vibrant democracies. Thank you for being here. We wish you a pleasant and fulfilling meeting. Kristin Good (Dalhousie University) ---- on behalf of the conference committee Conference committee: Abigail Bakan (Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University) Bruce Berman (EDG Project Director, Queen's University) Kristin Good (Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University) Will Kymlicka (Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University) David McDonald (Global Development Studies, Queen’s University) Erin Tolley (Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University) Phil Triadafilopoulos (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto) Luc Turgeon (School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa)

Globalization, Urbanization and Ethnicity PRESENTS:

Keynote lecture with Richard Stren Urbanization and Socio-Economic Diversity: The Governance of Local Services

Dr. Richard Stren (University of Toronto) will speak about the chal-lenges of providing adequate basic services to citizens under condi-tions of limited resources and with rapidly growing populations — most particularly in the developing world. He will speak from the point of view that citizenship is as much a matter of access to local services for most people as it is a political phenomenon and that many of the most intense city-based conflicts arise over the quality and distribution of services such as water, public transport, educa-tion, garbage removal and electricity. Amongst other examples, Dr. Stren is expected to focus on Africa, where the majority of the popu-lation has virtually no regular water provision, no connections to electricity or public garbage collection, and must compete for what may be very limited transportation options. In the meantime, within Africa, another group of citizens has reasonably good access to these services. Dr. Stren’s talk will highlight these discrepancies, and discuss some of the ways in which socio-economic gaps and resource deficiencies are being bridged by new and imaginative lo-cal approaches to governance. Richard Stren is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and the for-mer Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies at the University of Toronto. He has carried out research in many African cities since the 1960s – Mombasa and Nairobi in Kenya, Dar es Sa-laam in Tanzania, Makurdi in Nigeria, Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire. He has written or edited 18 books on urban subjects in the developing world, and over 50 refereed articles and chapters in books. Among his most recent books are (coedited with Mila Freire) The Challenge of Urban Government. Policies and Practices (World Bank: 2001); and with Patricia McCarney, Governance on the Ground: Innova-tions and Discontinuities in Cities in the Developing World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).

When: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 9:20 a.m. Where: Pinnacle room

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Keynote lunch with Jennifer Hochschild Who Belongs?: Inclusion, Discrimination, and Responses to the Crash of 2008 in Western Democracies

Dr. Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard University) expects to speak about her recent project comparing people's views regarding inclusion of themselves and others in national identity. Dr. Hochschild’s early analysis appears to show that countries in which people feel the strongest sense of inclusion are also the countries in which people seem least willing to incorporate others on relatively lenient terms. That pattern varies depending on the country, race, religion, or citi-zenship status and also socio-economic status of individual respon-dents. The project covers Canada, and nine other western, democ-ratic countries ranging from the United States through much of Europe and as far as Japan. The research project also examines views about inclusion and discrimination before and after the eco-nomic crash in fall 2008, focusing, in this case, on Europe. Her data to date, indicate that the 2008 crash mostly exacerbated, rather than changed, ongoing trends in public opinion. Although neither study suggests a crisis in public views about inclusion or exclusion, both indicate some serious problems with which democratic polities need to grapple and which are expected to be part of discussions at this Thursday luncheon keynote presentation. Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Gov-ernment, Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Harvard College Professor, at Harvard University. Author of Bringing Outsiders In: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political In-corporation (2009,co-edited); her current projects address the blur-ring of racial boundaries in the United States, the role of factual knowledge in citizens’ political views, and the relationship between immigration laws and the practices of political (non)incorporation of immigrants.

When: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 1:15 p.m. Where: Pinnacle room

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Keynote lunch with Susan E. Clarke Immigration, "Social Cohesion and Democratic Voice: Rethinking Political Incorporation"

Dr. Susan E. Clarke (University of Colorado at Boulder) will draw on her research on Muslims and local governance within London U.K. boroughs as an opportunity to reconsider the ways in which political incorporation processes contribute to social cohesion and more de-mocratic voice. She will sketch the trends shaping the prospects for immigrant groups and the conditions under which they gain repre-sentation on local borough councils. In London, the ability of groups to mobilize around ethnic and religious identities is important but the role of political parties in encouraging or ignoring these new con-stituencies proves crucial. Dr. Clarke’s presentation is expected to reveal the gap between representation and influence that brings to the fore a central question — is political representation enough? Al-though the example used for this Friday luncheon keynote talk will specifically present the London case, much of the discussion is ex-pected to informally compare the British, Canadian, and American experiences as well. For instance, recent research indicates that immigrant and minority groups are similarly under-represented in Canadian city and national political bodies although this varies sig-nificantly across municipalities. Susan E. Clarke is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Director of the Center to Advance Social Science Research and Teaching (CARTSS), a campus-wide inter-disciplinary centre. Her research and teaching interests center on public policy and urban politics and policy, particularly issues of globalization and local democracy. Her publications include The Work of Cities (with Gary Gaile: Minnesota, 1998) on local economic development strategies, a co-authored book on Multiethnic Mo-ments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2006) and numerous journal articles. She is Editor (with Michael Pagano) of Urban Affairs Review.

When: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 12:45 p.m. Where: Pinnacle room

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DAY ONE Thursday, Dec 3, 2009 DAY TWO Friday, Dec 4, 2009

7:45 – 8:30 am Continental breakfast (Penthouse Foyer)

8:30 – 9:00 am Registration opens

9:00 – 9:20 am Welcome and introductions

9:20 - 10:30 am (1.10 hours)

"Urbanization and Socio-Economic Diversity: The Governance of Local Services" Richard Stren, Cities Centre, University of Toronto

8:30 – 10:00 am (1.5 hours)

Roundtable Street-level Bureaucracy: Top-down Versus Bottom-up Policy-making

10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee break (Penthouse Foyer)

10:00 – 10:30 am Coffee break (Penthouse Foyer)

11:00 – 12:30 pm (1.5 hours)

Roundtable Suburbanization of Immigrant Settlement in Metropolitan Areas

10:30 – 12:00 pm (1.5 hours)

Panel Comparative Perspectives on the Management of Multinational Cities

12:30 – 2:30 pm

Lunch with Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard University) "Who Belongs?: Inclusion, Discrimination, and Responses to the Crash of 2008 in Western Democracies"

12:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch with Susan E. Clarke (University of Colorado at Boulder) “Immigration, Social Cohesion and Democratic Voice: Rethinking Political Incorporation"

2:30 – 4:00 pm (1.5 hours)

Panel Immigration in Linguistically Divided Cities

2:00 – 3:30 pm (1.5 hours)

Panel Social Cohesion in Comparative Perspective: Divergent Approaches, Diverse Outcomes

4:00 – 4:30 pm Coffee break (Penthouse Foyer)

3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee break (Penthouse Foyer)

4:30 – 6:00 pm (1.5 hours)

Roundtable Diverse Faces in Political Spaces: Immigrants, Minorities and Aboriginals as Political Actors

4:00 – 5:30 pm (1.5 hours)

Roundtable Globalization, Migration and Ethnicity in the Cities of the Global South

7:00 pm Conference Dinner (Pinnacle room)

All sessions will be held in the Pinnacle room unless otherwise indicated.



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Thursday, December 3, 2009

7:45 - 8:30 am Continental breakfast (Penthouse Foyer) 8:30 - 9:00 am Registration opens 9:00 - 9:20 am Welcome and introductions 9:20 - 10:30 am Keynote lecture

Urbanization and Socio-Economic Diversity: The Governance of Local Services

Richard Stren, Cities Centre, University of Toronto

(1.10 hours)

10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee break (Penthouse Foyer) 11:00 – 12:30 pm Roundtable (1.5 hours) Suburbanization of Immigrant Settlement in Metropolitan Areas Many immigrants are by-passing urban cores and settling directly in suburbs. These settlement processes reflect development and growth patterns in dynamic metropolitan areas as well as shaping them. New terms such as "ethnoburb" and "twenty-first century gateways" have developed to conceptualize these new spatial configurations. Though immigration is changing the spatial dimensions of city life in profound ways, we know very little about the social, political and economic implications of these "new" forms of settlement. This roundtable will bring to light some emerging patterns as well as the challenges and opportunities of urbanization. David Ley, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia David Hulchanski, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto Wei Li, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University Lorrie Frasure, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles Moderator: Keith Banting, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University * Tung Chan, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. was unable to attend 12:30 - 2:30 pm Keynote lunch

Who Belongs?: Inclusion, Discrimination, and Responses to the Crash of 2008 in Western Democracies Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard University) (2 hours)



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2:30 am – 4:00 pm Panel (1.5 hours) Immigration in Linguistically Divided Cities The process of international migration has been an important challenge of urban governance, especially in cities where it has the potential to upset the fragile balance between entrenched linguistic groups. The panel explores the question of linguistic diversity from a cross-national comparative perspective and with a particular focus on the politics and governance of immigration in linguistically bifurcated places. Immigrant inclusion and linguistic struggle in the Brussels Capital Region Dirk Jacobs, Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Montréal à la croisée des chemins : entre débats et cohabitation Annick Germain, Centre Urbanisation, Culture Société, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Foreign Immigration and Official Languages Practice in Spain. A Preliminary Geographical Approach Ricard Moren-Alegret, Departament de Geografia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Discussant: Martin Papillon, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa Chair: André Lecours, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa 4:00 - 4:30 pm Coffee break (Penthouse Foyer) 4:30 – 6:00 pm Roundtable (1.5 hours) Diverse Faces in Political Spaces: Immigrants, Minorities and Aboriginals as Political Actors This roundtable will include participants who have examined the inclusion of diverse communities in the political arena. It will look at electoral and non-electoral forms of representation including voting rights, running for public office and voluntarism, on the importation of political attitudes and traditions, and on the initiatives that have or could be adopted to strengthen the engagement of immigrants, minorities and Aboriginals in political life. Antoine Bilodeau, Department of Political Science, Concordia University Karthick Ramakrishnan, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside Caroline Andrew, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa Leslie Seidle, Institute for Research on Public Policy and Forum of Federations Miriam Lapp, Policy, Planning and Public Affairs, Elections Canada Moderator: Kristin Good, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University

7:00 pm Conference Dinner (Pinnacle room)



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Friday, December 4, 2009

7:45 - 8:30 am Continental breakfast (Penthouse Foyer) 8:30 – 10:00 am Roundtable (1.5 hours) Street-level Bureaucracy: Top-down Versus Bottom-up Policy-Making This roundtable will bring together professionals involved in the implementation of policy at street-level to discuss the potential for productive outcomes and also the risks. Participants will share best practices, lessons learned and thoughts on the areas in which street-level bureaucracy offers benefits as well as potential harms. Isobel Anderson, Ottawa Police Service Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, Diversity Management and Community Engagement, City

of Toronto Manager's Office Patrick Tobin, Citizen Participation Branch, Department of Canadian Heritage Deborah Tunis, Integration Branch, Citizenship and Immigration Canada Moderator: Peter Eisinger, Milano School for Management and Urban Policy, New School 10:00 - 10:30 am Coffee break (Penthouse Foyer) 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Panel (1.5 hours) Comparative Perspectives on the Management of Multinational Cities This panel will explore the urban roots of conflicts in multinational and multireligious states. What political and institutional mechanisms have been set up to manage ethno-linguistic and ethno-religious conflict in cities? Can one identify factors that contribute to an accentuation or attenuation of tensions in these cities? What have been the causes of change in institutional settlements? What has been the impact of this multinational diversity on the practice of urban politics? Can urban policies and institutions contribute to country-level goals of ethnic stability? Managing Multicultural Cities in Divided Countries Scott Bollens, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California, Irvine Power-Sharing in Kirkuk: Conflict or Compromise? Liam Anderson, Department of Political Science, Wright State University The Jerusalem Old City Initiative Michael Molloy, Jerusalem Old City Initiative, University of Windsor and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa Discussant: John McGarry, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University Chair: Luc Turgeon, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa



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12:30 - 2:30 pm Keynote lunch

Immigration, Social Cohesion and Democratic Voice: Rethinking Political Incorporation Lunch with Susan E. Clarke (University of Colorado at Boulder) (2 hours)

2:00 PM – 3:30 pm Panel (1.5 hours) Social Cohesion in Comparative Perspective: Divergent Approaches, Diverse Outcomes This panel will provide a comparative perspective on social cohesion, addressing the definition and conceptualization of social cohesion, the principle critiques of – and challenges to – social cohesion, and the kinds of policies that have been implemented in the name of social cohesion. Jocelyn Maclure, Faculty of Philosophy, Laval University The Benefits and Limits of “Pragmatism”: Immigrant Integration Policy and Social Cohesion in Germany Phil Triadafilopoulos, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto The Ungovernable Cité? Critical reflections on policies of ‘social inclusion’ and ethnicity in urban France Mike Samers, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky Discussant: Ümit Kiziltan, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Branch, Citizenship and Immigration

Canada Chair: Jean Kunz, Policy Research Initiative 3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee break (Penthouse Foyer) 4:00 – 5:30 pm Roundtable (1.5 hours) Globalization, Migration and Ethnicity in the Cities of the Global South Classical urban research on modernization and development has assumed that, because of their more intense encounters with (western) modernity and cosmopolitanism, the growth of cities in the Global South would dampen the allure of ethnicity as political identity. In reality, urbanization has been and remains a major incubator of new forms of ethnicity; cities are key sites in the valorization of ethnic identities and rise of ethnic consciousness and conflict. Dickson Eyoh, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Jaideep Gupte, Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai and the University of Oxford David McDonald, Global Development Studies, Queen's University Moderator: Richard Stren, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto *Leticia Calderón Chelius, Instituto Mora, Mexico was unable to attend

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Biographies

Isobel Anderson was born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Africa. She has been living and working in Ottawa for the past 19 years. She began her policing career with the British South Africa Police, in a segregated Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe. At that time, there were two rank structures; one for whites and one for blacks. Isobel believes that, to police effectively, it is crucial to have a relationship with the community. She currently serves on two boards of directors: the Ontario Women in Law and the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. She also travels to various countries in Africa with Pearson Peacekeeping Centre to deliver training on Sexual Gender Based Violence as well as to design, develop and deliver pre-deployment training for United Nations police officers.

Liam Anderson obtained his MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge University, UK, and his PhD in Political Science from the University of Georgia. His research interests focus on issues of constitutional design, particularly with reference to Iraq. He has published several books, including, The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division (2005, with Gareth Stansfield), An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs (2009, with E.W. Anderson), and Crisis in Kirkuk (2009, with Gareth Stansfield). He is currently working on a manuscript about the use of federalism as a means of alleviating tensions in deeply divided societies.

Caroline Andrew is the Director of the Centre on Governance, School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include urban development, municipal immigration and immigrant integration policies, gender and local governance, place-based policy and relations between community groups and municipal governments. Recent publications include: “Community based women: changing politics or being changed by politics” (2008) in Sylvia Bashevkin, Opening Doors Wider, Vancouver: UBC Press; “La Ville d’Ottawa et l’immigration francophone” (2008) in Canadian Issues spring 2008; and co-editing with Sandeep Agrawal and John Biles, Plan Canada , Special Edition : “Welcoming Communities: Planning for Diverse Populations” (2009). Caroline Andrew is on the boards of the Lowertown Community Resource Centre, the Ottawa Crime Prevention Council, Echo – improving women’s health in Ontario, Women in Cities International, Inter Pares and the steering committee of the City for All Women Initiative in Ottawa.

Abigail Bakan is Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University. Her research addresses citizenship, equity and anti-oppression politics. Her publications include Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System (with Daiva K. Stasiulis), winner of the 2007 Canadian Women’s Studies Association annual book award; Employment Equity in Canada – An Interprovincial Comparison (with Audrey Kobayashi); and Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left (co-editor with Eleanor MacDonald).

Bruce J. Berman is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Program and Professor Emeritus of Political Studies at Queen’s University. He was president of the Canadian Association of Africa Studies in 1990-91 and the US African Studies Association in 2004-05. His research focuses on the development of state and ethnic politics, initially in Africa, and now in a global context. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya (1990), which received the Joel Gregory Prize in 1991, and, with John Lonsdale, Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa (1992), which received the Trevor Reese Memorial Prize in 1995. His recent publications include Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa (2004, edited with Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka) and editor and co-author of the forthcoming special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies on “Ethnic Politics and Constitutional Reform in Africa.” He is a member of the Japan International Cooperation Agency’s project on ethnicity and economic development in Africa, and a consultant to the Club de Madrid’s “Shared Societies” project.

Antoine Bilodeau is an assistant professor of political science at Concordia University. His research focuses on the political integration of immigrants in Canada and other Western democracies in terms of political participation and values. He has published work in the International Migration Review, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the International Political Science Review, PS: Political Science and Politics, the Canadian Journal of Political Science and the Australian Journal of



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Political Science. Antoine Bilodeau is also the leader for Domain 1(Citizenship and Social, Cultural, Civic and Linguistic Integration) for the Quebec Metropolis Centre.

Scott A. Bollens, PhD, AICP, is professor of urban planning and Warmington Endowed Chair in Peace and International Cooperation, University of California, Irvine. Professor Bollens studies ethnicity and urban policy, divided cities, urban governance, and the urban dynamics of national political transitions. Over the past 15 years, he has interviewed over 220 urban professionals, political leaders, and community activists in Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia (Cyprus), Sarajevo and Mostar (Bosnia), and Barcelona and Basque cities (Spain) about the role of urban policy and city building amidst nationalistic ethnic conflict and political transitions. Recent books include Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization (2007, Routledge), On Narrow Ground (2000, State University of New York Press) and Urban Peace-Building in Divided Societies (1999, Westview Press). Prof. Bollens has written more than 35 journal articles and book chapters in leading venues over the past 20 years and has presented at numerous public forums in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Tung Chan is chief executive officer of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. (a group of registered charities dedicated to the creation of a world of multicultural harmony by building bridges, harvesting diversity and fostering social integration). He is a member of Vancouver Foundation's Honourary Governors' Council and the Immigrant Employment Council of British Columbia. Tung is a frequent commentator in the media on social, multicultural and immigration related issues.

Leticia Calderón Chelius is professor and researcher in Political Sociology at the Instituto José María Luís Mora, Mexico. A specialist in migration issues, citizenship and political rights, her current research involves examining “Political behaviour and migration: How to explain the abstention, presidential election in México 2006”. Recent publications include La dimensión Política de la migración mexicana (2002 with Jesús Martínez Saldaña) and “’Votar en la distancia’, La extensión de los derechos políticos a migrantes, experiencias comparadas” (2003). Calderón Chelius is a member of National Reserchers System (S.N.I) Mexico, the Consultive Group of the Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM), member of the Direction Buró and the RED de MIGRACIÓN y DESARROLLO.

Susan E. Clarke is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Director of the Center to Advance Social Science Research and Teaching (CARTSS), a campus-wide interdisciplinary center. Her research and teaching interests center on public policy and urban politics and policy, particularly issues of globalization and local democracy. Her publications include The Work of Cities (with Gary Gaile: Minnesota, 1998) on local economic development strategies, a co-authored book on Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2006) and numerous journal articles. She is Editor (with Michael Pagano) of Urban Affairs Review.

Peter Eisinger is the Henry Cohen Professor at the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School in New York City. In 2002 he held the Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Groningen University in the Netherlands and in 2006 he visited at the Technical University at Delft. He is the author or co-author of seven books and numerous articles and monographs on topics ranging from protest and the local political opportunity structure to state and local economic development policy to hunger and food assistance policy in the United States. His recent work includes research on leadership in urban public education and on intergovernmental relations in the homeland security domain.

Dickson Eyoh is Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies, University of Toronto. His researh interests include State formation in Africa, Identity, Culture and Politics, Africanist discourse and Migration and Urban Citizenship in Postcolonial Africa. Recent publications include Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History and Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa (co-edited with Bruce Berman and Will Kymlicka).

Lorrie Frasure is in the Department of Political Science at UCLA. Her research areas include race and ethnic politics, state and local governance and the political economy of metropolitan areas. Her book project in progress is tentatively titled, “We Won’t



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Turn Back: Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Settlement in Suburban America” which examines the responsiveness of state and local institutions to the policy concerns of immigrant and ethnic minority groups in American suburbs. Her most recent work is published with Linda F. Williams in the 2009 edited volume, Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice (Rutgers University Press, Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth E. Zambrana, eds). Frasure is also the co-Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Multi-Racial Post Election Survey (CMPS 2008), the first national, multi-racial, multi-lingual post-election study of racial and political preferences and behavior among registered voters in the United States. She is also a Senior Research Associate to the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project, the most comprehensive multiracial national study of Black, Latino, Asian, and American Indian elected officials holding positions at multiple levels of office.

Annick Germain is professor at INRS-Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, which she led from 1997 to 1999. Since February 2008, she is the director of the Québec Metropolis Centre – Immigration et Métropoles and was a founding member of the Centre in 1996. As a specialist in urban issues, she has been conducting research for the past 20 years on housing, public space, social diversity, and the urban integration of immigrants, especially at the neighborhood level. She has also studied municipal management of ethnic and religious diversity. She has conducted many research projects applied to the case study of Montréal, but also carries out numerous international comparative studies. In 2000, she released a work of synthesis on Montréal in collaboration with Damaris Rose entitled Montréal. The Quest for a Metropolis, published by John Wiley & Sons of London. She has also published collaborative works on racism, urban planning, proximity, and is currently preparing one on people living alone.

Kristin Good is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. Good’s current research concerns the role of municipalities in ethno-cultural relations in Canada. She published a book on this subject in November 2009 entitled Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver (University of Toronto Press). The book documents and explains variation in multiculturalism policy development in eight urban and suburban municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Vancouver. Her current research examines the influence of cities' growth rates and ethnic configurations in the politics and governance of immigration. This research will document local immigration strategies, multiculturalism initiatives and governance arrangements in a range of cities with different growth rates and long-standing ethno-linguistic configurations (including cities with different proportions of Aboriginal peoples and official language communities).

Jaideep Gupte is currently Research Fellow at the Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai, and a doctoral student at the Department of Politics, University of Oxford. He has more than 4 years of experience in international development, with a particular focus on (1) urban development – security for development and (2) vulnerability and social exclusion in urban slums and slum rehabilitation sites. He has done research in several countries including India, Nigeria and Bangladesh. Jaideep's current research looks at security provision in slum resettlement schemes in Mumbai, India, where city authorities have planned on relocating and rehousing close to 5 million slum dwellers in the next 20 years. This research focuses primarily on dynamics of policing and law and order in the resettlement areas which have become sites of concentrated vulnerability, violence and crime.

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Harvard College Professor, at Harvard University. She studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy, particularly racial and ethnic politics and policy, immigration, educational and social policy, and public opinion or political culture. Her most recent books are Bringing Outsiders In: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation (2009,co-edited); The American Dream and the Public Schools (2003, co-authored); and Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (1995). Current projects address the blurring of racial boundaries in the United States, the role of factual knowledge in citizens’ political views, and the relationship between immigration laws and the practices of political (non)incorporation of immigrants. Hochschild was the founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Russell Sage Foundation and the Board of Overseers of General Social Survey.

David Hulchanski is the associate director for research of the University of Toronto’s Cities Centre and a professor of housing and community development in the Faculty of Social Work, where he holds the endowed chair in housing studies. His PhD is in



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urban planning. His teaching and research is focused on housing, homelessness, neighbourhood change, and social policy. He is the principal investigator of a five-year SSHRC Community University Research Alliance grant, in partnership with St. Christopher House, on neighbourhood change and inclusive communities. He is the author of the recent report: “The Three Cities within Toronto: Income polarization among Toronto’s neighbourhoods, 1970-2000.” He is also the co-editor of a recent book on rental housing in Canada: Finding Room: Policy Options for a Canadian Rental Housing Strategy (UofT, 2004); and a just released e-book on Canadian homelessness research: Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada.

Dirk Jacobs is professor in sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium. Main research interests are ethnic minorities, social capital, immigrant integration policies and processes of inclusion and exclusion.

Ümit Kiziltan has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on research methods, sociology of education, and comparative education at Bogaziçi University, Syracuse University, and the University of Victoria. He has worked more than a decade in northern British Columbia with the Tl'azt'en Nation Community as an educator and community developer in treaty negotiations, natural resource management and cultural development. Subsequently, he has worked for more than five years in the field of international development as the Deputy Executive Director of CUSO, specialising in capacity building, inclusive governance, and health in community based volunteer development programming in over 30 countries in the south. After a year and a half with the Assembly of First Nations as a senior economist on the education and international relations file, Ümit joined the federal public service as Director of Program Management and Control with a focus on refugee health at the Health Management Branch of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). He has been with the Citizenship and Multiculturalism Branch (CIC) since September 2008 where he is now acting Director General.

Jean Lock Kunz is director with the Policy Research Initiative (PRI). She recently completed an interdepartmental project on multicultural diversity for 21st century Canada and is embarking on a new project on social innovation and social management of risk. She is also involved in research regarding the integration of migrants as well as ethnic relations in China. Jean has written extensively on issues relating to immigration, multiculturalism, race relations, labour force participation, youth, and media. Prior to joining the Public Service, Jean was senior research and policy associate with the Canadian Council on Social Development, primarily responsible for the creation of its cultural diversity research unit. An immigrant to Canada, Jean began her career in policy research at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Will Kymlicka is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University. His research interests focus on issues of democracy and diversity, and in particular the rights and status of ethnocultural minorities within liberal democratic theory and practice. His works have been translated into 30 languages including Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007) and Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (1995).

Miriam Lapp joined Elections Canada in 2002. In her current position as Assistant Director, Outreach and Research, she is responsible for managing outreach programs and research, and providing policy advice on electoral participation and voter outreach strategies, with a particular focus on youth engagement. Previously, she managed research and logistical support for Elections Canada’s international activities, including the international monitoring missions for the 2005 elections in Iraq and the 2006 elections in Haiti. Prior to joining Elections Canada, she was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Université de Montréal, with a specialization in electoral participation.

André Lecours is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His main research interests are Canadian politics, European politics, nationalism (with a focus on Quebec, Scotland, Flanders, Catalonia and the Basque country) and federalism. He is the editor of New Institutionalism. Theory and Analysis published by the University of Toronto Press in 2005, the author of Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State (University of Nevada Press, 2007), and the co-author (with Daniel Béland) of Nationalism and Social Policy. The Politics of Territorial Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2008).



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David Ley is Canada Research Chair and Head of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He teaches and studies the social geography of large cities. Earlier research analysed gentrification and neighbourhood change; current work concerns immigration. Dr. Ley has been part of the Metropolis Project on immigration and urbanisation since the mid-1990s, and was the UBC Director of the Vancouver Metropolis Centre from 1996 to 2003. His research on immigration issues includes: housing markets and labour markets; immigrant poverty; transnationalism and return; the immigrant church as a service hub; multiculturalism and the governance of diversity. He has just completed a book on the wealthy migrants who entered Canada, and particularly Vancouver, from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. The book, Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines, is to be published in March 2010 by Blackwell. Earlier books include The New Middle Class and the Re-making of the Central City, Neighbourhood Organizations and the Welfare State (with Shlomo Hasson), and A Social Geography of the City. Dr. Ley is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fellow Emeritus of the Pierre Trudeau Foundation.

Wei Li is currently Associate Professor at the Asian Pacific American Studies / School of Social Transformation; and School of Geographical Sciences in the Arizona State University, USA, and affiliated with Center for Asian Research, Center for Population Dynamics, North American Center for Transborder Studies. Her foci of research are urban ethnicity and ethnic geography, immigration and integration, financial sector and minority community development, and transnational connections, focusing on the Chinese and other Asian groups in the Pacific Rim. She coined the term “ethnoburb” to describe a new form of contemporary suburban Asian settlements, and continues her empirical studies in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area, Metropolitan Phoenix, Toronto, and Vancouver, Canada. She is the editor of “From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries” (2006) and co-editor of “Landscape of Ethnic Economy” (2006), and author of “Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America” (2009). She served as the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Ethnicity and Multicultural Citizenship in Queen’s University, Canada (2006-2007) and is a member of the International Steering Committee of the International Metropolis Project.

Jocelyn Maclure is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Faculty at Laval University, where he teaches ethics and political philosophy. In 2006-07, he was an advisor for the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on Religious Accommodations. His recent work focusses on political secularism and the meaning and scope of freedom of conscience. Laïcité et liberté de conscience, co-authored with Charles Taylor, will appear in 2010 (Boréal, Montreal).

David McDonald is Professor and Head of the department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University. He is also co-director of the Municipal Services project – a multidisciplinary research initiative examining the delivery of basic municipal services such as water, electricity and primary health care in the global South – and has published extensively on urbanization in Southern Africa.

John McGarry is Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Democracy and Nationalism at Queen’s University. He served in 2008-09 as Senior Advisor on Power Sharing to the United Nations, and is currently advising the Secretary General's Special Representative to Cyprus on the political negotiations there. Over the past year, he has traveled to Cyprus seven times to meet with Turkish and Greek Cypriot negotiators who are working towards reuniting the divided island country. His areas of research interest include national and ethnic conflict regulation, power-sharing, federalism, the politics of Northern Ireland, and the policing of ethnically divided societies.

Michael Molloy is a former diplomat and has had a long implication in the Middle East. From 2003 to 2009, he was Co-Director of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative at the University of Windsor and served as Coordinator of the Middle East Process at the Department of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003. He was also Ambassador of Canada to Jordan from 1996 to 2000.

Ricard Morén-Alegret is Tenured Associate Professor at the Geography Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where he is also Deputy Director of the Migration Research Group / Grup de Recerca sobre Migracions (GRM).



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Furthermore, he is Associate Researcher of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, and of IMISCOE, an EU Network of Excellence on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion. In addition, he is also the Coordinator of GRM "Consolidated and Funded Research Group" (SGR Program 2009-2013, AGAUR, Catalan Autonomous Government). Ricard Morén is expert in organizations geography, integration processes and migration movements at local, regional, national and European scale. He has coordinated several fieldworks in a diversity of metropolitan, rural and semi-rural regions in Spain, Portugal, Great Britain and France. Currently, he is Principal Investigator of the R+D projects titled "Foreign immigration, sense of place and territorial identity in five small towns in Spain" (2006-2009) and the recently granted "Immigrants' Integration and the Role of a Diversity of Organisations in Achieving Sustainable Small Towns and Rural Areas" (2009-2013), both funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation.

Martin Papillon is a professor of political science at the University of Ottawa. His current research interests focus on indigenous governance in Canada, more specifically on the role of indigenous organisations and governments in the policy process and the transformation of Canadian federalism in light of Indigenous self-determination claims. He is also working more broadly on the reconfiguration of citizenship regimes in multinational states. His book, Federalism from Below? Changing Dynamics of Indigenous Governance in Canada will be out in the Spring of 2010.

Karthick Ramakrishnan is associate professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on civic participation, immigration policy, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States. Ramakrishnan is one of the principal investigators for the 2008 National Asian American Survey, the first of its kind conducted at the national level. Ramakrishnan’s articles have appeared in International Migration Review, Urban Affairs Review, Social Science Quarterly, and The DuBois Review. He is also the author of Democracy in Immigrant America (Stanford University Press, 2005), and is an editor of two volumes on immigrant politics and civic engagement: Transforming Politics, Transforming America (University of Virginia Press, 2006) and Civic Roots and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008).

Ceta Ramkhalawansingh is the Manager, Diversity Management and Community Engagement leading a staff unit in the City Manager’s Office, City of Toronto. This unit has responsibilities for functions aimed at achieving the city’s access, equity and human rights goals including: the preparation of accountability reports on corporate implementation, monitoring legislative proposals that impact on human rights protected groups, policy development, facilitation of advisory committees on Disability Issues and Aboriginal Affairs, community liaison and outreach, internal advocacy with City Divisions, management of a specialised access, equity and human rights funding program and public awareness programs. Prior to this, she was the Manager, Equal Opportunity of the former City of Toronto, where she was responsible for human rights and employment equity as well as the service equity program through which the city established obligations regarding anti-discrimination requirements for civic agencies, grant recipients and suppliers of goods and services.

Michael Samers is currently Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, as well as serving as co-editor of the journal Geoforum. Winner of the European Planning Studies ‘Best Article of the Year’ award in 1998 for his work on North African immigrants in the Paris automobile industry, he has over 10 years experience researching and writing about the economic and urban dimensions of migration and immigration, particularly in the context of France and the EU more broadly. His other research interests include alternative forms of economic development and Islamic banking and finance. He has recently completed a book Migration (which will appear in December 2009 as part of the Key Ideas in Geography Series published by Routledge).

Leslie Seidle is senior policy advisor with the Forum of Federations, senior research associate at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) and a public policy consultant. He previously held a number of senior positions in the Government of Canada, including director general of Strategic Policy and Research, Intergovernmental Affairs in the Privy Council Office (1996-2002). He was the senior research coordinator for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing (1990-91). He is the author of Rethinking the Delivery of Public Services to Citizens (1995) and numerous articles on electoral reform, citizen participation, constitutional reform, public management and political finance. Dr Seidle has edited/co-edited 12 books,



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including Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada (2007) and the comparative study Reforming Parliamentary Democracy (2003).

Richard Stren is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and the former Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies at the University of Toronto. He has carried out research in many African cities since the 1960s – Mombasa and Nairobi in Kenya, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Makurdi in Nigeria, Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire. Among his most recent books are (coedited with Mila Freire) The Challenge of Urban Government. Policies and Practices (World Bank: 2001), and (with Janice Stein) Networks of Knowledge: Collaborative Innovation in International Learning (University of Toronto Press: 2001). With Patricia McCarney, he has edited Governance on the Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in Cities in the Developing World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); and with Dickson Eyoh he has edited Decentralization and the Politics of Urban Development in West Africa (Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars). He was one of two senior co-editors of the landmark volume, Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World (Washington: National Academies Press, 2003). With a SSHRCC grant, he is currently researching urban participatory innovations in Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Cote d’Ivoire and India.

Patrick Tobin holds an undergraduate degree in Canadian History and a Masters in Canadian Studies. He joined Canadian Heritage in 1999 and has held a variety of roles with the department including work in book publishing, regional delivery and most recently, youth participation. Before joining the federal government, Pat worked for a national Aboriginal organization working to develop markets for Inuit art. During a recent leave of absence, he traveled around the world and worked at the Maytree Foundation to help establish an online community of practice for urban integration workers.

Erin Tolley is a PhD candidate in Political Studies at Queen’s University. Her research looks at electoral representation, minorities in Canadian politics, and issues broadly related to immigration and citizenship. Erin’s most recent publication is a co-edited volume, entitled Electing a Diverse Canada: The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities and Women (UBC Press, 2008). Erin is a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholar and, prior to commencing doctoral studies, she worked in the federal government, most recently in the department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Phil Triadafilopoulos is in the Department of Political Science at University of Toronto. Triadafilopoulos’ current research includes an examination of Canadian political parties' handling of immigration issues and a comparative study of immigrant integration politics and policy-making in Europe and North America. He recently completed a project on the roots of postwar cultural pluralization in Canada and Germany (Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Canada and Germany).

Luc Turgeon is in the School of Political Studies at Ottawa University. Turgeon's research interests focus on the development of public policies in multinational states, as well as territorial mechanisms to manage cultural diversity. One upcoming project examines the urban management of multinational conflicts in cities such as Montreal, Jerusalem and Brussels. He has acted as a consultant on the topic of the management of diversity for a number of NGOs.

The SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Ethnicity and Democratic Governance wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the following partners:

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